The next generation of the Web (known as Web 2.0 or the "participatory web") brought innovations that turned the Web from a read-only environment into an online community where people meet, exchange information, collaborate, and communicate. Examples of the web-based tools that make this possible are wikis, photo- and video-sharing sites, blogs, tagging, and social networking sites. Specific examples of sites that use these tools are Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Del.icio.us, and Facebook. These tools are now core to the Web, and a rapidly growing percentage of people now expect to be able to interact with people and content when they use the Web.
Guide to Core Web Tools
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Using Social Media to Make the Case for Supporting Library Services
Archive and related resources from November 19, 2009, webinar on how non-profits such as libraries can use social websites to put access to information and libraries on the agenda of community leaders, elected officials, and local and national agencies.
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Building the Digital Branch for the 21st Century
Archive and related resources from September 15, 2009 webinar with David Lee King on Building the Digital Branch for the 21st Century.
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What Is a Digital Branch, Anyway?
A chapter from Library Technology Reports that introduces the concept of a digital branch and outlines the phases of developing and maintaining the library's web presence.
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Bringing Web 2.0 into Academic Libraries
Archive and related resources from June 30, 2009 webinar on using social networks and other web-based technologies to reach member of academic communities with Amanda Clay Powers and Ellen Hampton Filgo.
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Social Learning with Libraries on WebJunction
Archive and related resources from June 16, 2009 webinar with Chrystie Hill on Social Learning with Libraries on WebJunction.
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Web 2.0
An overview of common web tools such as RSS, blogs, and wikis, and how they are used in the academic library.
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Technology Stewardship @ Your Library
Archive and related resources from June 10, 2009 webinar with Nancy White on Technology Stewardship @ Your Library.
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Favorite Web Tools
WebJunction staff answered the question, "What is your favorite web tool" in video format.
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Competencies for Social Networking in Libraries
Social networking is infused into many library services. Here is a list of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that will help library staff achieve competence in this area.
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Continuum of Engagement: from passive to active, individual to community
A Computers in Libraries presentation, March 30, 2009, addressing online and f2f community engagement. Barriers to engagement and strategies for overcoming barriers are presented, as well as a case model for public participation programming.
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Library 2.0 Cafe: Food for Thought at ALA 2008
An ALA 2008, WebJunction and MaintainIT community facilitated conversation exploring the questions about building successful and relevant online communities with your patrons and library colleagues.
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RSS-to-Email Keeps You Connected to the Action
This free and easy-to-set-up RSS feed service puts alerts right in you email inbox
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23 Things Summit
Archive and related resources for the 23 Things Summit, presented on March 3, 2009.
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Engage your community
Five principles for developing online learning communities. delivered 25 January 2009 at ALA Midwinter
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Innovation - Web 2.0 Tools
From Planning for Success Cookbook. Checklists and assessment matrices to accompany the Innovation section.
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What to Consider When Evaluating and Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Your Lib
From Planning for Success Cookbook section on Innovation.
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Collaborative Tools
From Planning for Success Cookbook section on Innovation.
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From Information Providers to Community Connectors
How investing in Web 2.0 technologies can strengthen libraries and communities
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Keeping Up with Technology
From the MaintainIT Planning for Success Cookbook section on Planning and Decision Making.
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Designing the Digital Experience: What is Community?
An excerpt from Designing the Digital Experience: how to use experience design tools and techniques to build websites customers love (Chapter 5 - What is Community?), by David Lee King. Attached PDF includes images. Reprinted with permission.
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Ubiquitous Computing and Libraries
Presentation from Internet Librarian 2008 about the future of technology. Specifically, it covers ubiquitous computing, calm technology, digital fabrication, biotelemetry and a few other trends that might impact libraries over the next 20 years.
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30-Minute Webinar: Quick Tips to Start a Gaming Program in your Library
Here you'll find the archive of the MaintainIT October 2008 30-Minute Webinar. Enjoy this fast-paced and interactive session introducing the idea of gaming programs in libraries.
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30-Minute Webinar: Public Computers and 2.0 Tools
Watch the archived MaintainIT webinar from September 2008, and learn from Robin Hastings all about 2.0 Tools and public access computing.
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Online Tools Build Communities: Reforma National Conference Presentation
PowerPoint slides and additional resources associated with the presentation given at the 2008 Reforma National Conference III in El Paso, Texas. Online community, digital storytelling, professional networks, blogs, and more are covered.
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Toward Academic Library 2.0: Development and application of a Library 2.0..
Recently, librarians have struggled to understand their relationship to a new breed of Web services that, like libraries, connect users with the information they need. These services, known as Web 2.0, offer new service models, methods, and technologies that can be adapted to improve library services. Additionally, these services affect library users’ information seeking behaviors, communication styles, and expectations. The term Library 2.0 has been introduced into the professional language of librarianship as a way to discuss these changes. This paper works to establish a theoretical foundation of Library 2.0 in academic libraries, or Academic Library 2.0.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Social Software
A list of external links.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Social Software
A list of external links.
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Catalogers Who Blog
Catalogers are natural collaborators and they have a lot to say.
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Avatars
Covers best practices and style guidelines for creating an avatar on WebJunction.
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Tagging
Covers best practices and style guidelines for tagging content on WebJunction.
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Writing for the Web
Covers best practices and style guidelines for writing documents for the web.
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Images and Graphics
Best practices and style guidelines for adding images to content in WebJunction.
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Websites and Internet Resources on Social Software
A list of external links
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From Hype to Help: Making a Difference with New Technologies
Audio recording of PLA presentation about panelists' experiences creating customized online communities and cooperative programs for library staff.
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WebJunction's Focus on Online Community for Public Libraries
We consider how web tools weave a connection between you and the people you serve.
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WebJunction Pathfinder: Creating Audio and Podcasts for Your Library
Start here for information on creating audio for your library website and podcasts for your library.
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Readergirlz: An Online Book Community Celebrating Gutsy Girls in Life and L
This online book community was designed to help inspire, encourage, and empower young girls.
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10 Ways to Make Your Library Great in 2008 via Web 2.0
This webinar will show you how to leverage social networking tools and Web 2.0 technologies to enable knowledge sharing and create collections of information around professional development. Originally presented January 2008.
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InfoSpeak: Sarah Houghton-Jan Old library values, new web technology
Librarian in Black Sarah Houghton-Jan discusses web 2.0 and libraries.
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Create a Social Software Policy for Your Library
Drawing from her experiences at Washoe County Library System, Internet Services Librarian Jami Haskell provides information on how to implement social software technologies responsibly, fairly and without legal liability.
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Choose the Tool that Fits Your Content
If you are thinking about launching a blog or a wiki, or are wondering if you should install a content management system, step back first and ask yourself what you are trying to accomplish with your content.
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Blogs for Libraries
What are blogs and why should librarians care about them?
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Social Software and the Rural Library
Blogs, Wikis, IM, and more! How are these tools being used in libraries? What is the potential? What might the future hold? September 18, 2007 archive.
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Using the Web to Solicit Books for Rural Schools in Latin America
Case study demonstrating the use of web 2.0 tools to raise money and books for libraries in Honduras.
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31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries
How to use this photo-sharing website to connect and communicate with your patrons
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Create a Flexible Social Web Class
Steve Campion, system trainer at Pierce County (WA) Library, explains why one needs to stay informed and nimble when undertaking to teach the social web.
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Building a Social Networking Environment at the Library
Steve Campion, system trainer at Pierce County (WA) Library, outlines the steps toward having an interactive library, and provides examples from his own library's experience.
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Twitter and the Missouri River Regional Library
The MRRL is experimenting with an easy-to-use social networking tool to stay in touch with its community.
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What is RSS and How to Use It
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a simple tool to bring web-based news feeds of information on subjects of interest directly to you.
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Twitter: A Beginner's Guide, Part 2
The second part of this primer describes extended tools for Twitter, and discusses why some people love Twitter while others hate the whole concept.
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So You Want to Build a Wiki?
Ready to build a library wiki? Here's a list of points to consider as you evaluate how to proceed.
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Twitter: A Beginner's Guide, Part 1
Get acquainted with Twitter, a social networking tool that can be used on a computer or on a mobile device.
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Making Sense of Social Software in the Library
A recording of an online panel discussion of social software projects that enhance a library's online presence.
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Tech-Focused Library Blogs
Librarians who are also bloggers can help the rest of us keep up with emerging technologies.
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Stevens County (WA) Rural Library District: Stayin' Alive, Online
Think rural America is no place for a library to build an online community? A library system in a remote corner of Washington might just prove you wrong.
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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging: How to mark sites so you and others ca
Tips on how to mark sites using social bookmarking managers such as del.icio.us so that you can find them and share them with others.
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St. Joseph County (IN) Public Library: How Do You Spell "Blog"? (
For the St. Joseph County (IN) Public Library, "blog" spells "outreach to patrons". Learn how they've put the hippest new communication tool to good practical use.
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It's a Wiki Wiki World (September 2005)
Too much talk about blogs and wikis and Flickr sightings got you looking for crop circles and UFOs? George will bring you back down to Earth.
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Out of the Office: Is Web-Based Productivity Software for You?
The World Wide Web is increasingly a two-way street, which makes it possible to take old tools to new places. Should you (or your patrons) think about getting off of Office and onto something Web-based?
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Easy Steps to Creating a Blog
Looking to create a low-maintenance, easily updated web site? In a few minutes you can have a blog up and running, and it might just do the trick.
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Online Discussions
You want to talk online in real time, but how? Communicate with colleagues via chat, newsgroups, or virtual reality.
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Start a Blog in Five Minutes
A blog can be an easy way to start a library web site or enrich the one you've got. Lori Bell of the Mid-Illinois Talking Book Center walks you through the process.
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Using Blogs to Keep Current
Published in 2003, this excerpt from "Keeping Current: Advanced Internet Strategies to Meet Librarian and Patron Needs" offers relevant advice to library staff on using blogs to keep themselves and their patrons up to date.
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Using Wikis to Create Online Communities
Wikis open up new possibilities for collaboration between you and your patrons. Blogger and WJ guest editor Meredith Farkas tells why wikis should matter to you and your library.
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Recent Research on Virtual Communities
Michael Stephens shares some insights from current research on online communities and some examples of how this applies to libraries and library staff.
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Everything I Need to Know I Learned Online
Online communities can help librarians save time, establish professional links, and reconnect with the roots of the profession.
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U R the Best: Community Building through Chat
Want to meet patrons where they live? Then consider adopting the technologies they love.
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Get Flickr-tastic!
Andrea Mercado explains Flickr, an online photo-sharing application, and how you can use it at your library.
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Blogs Can Create Community
Here are some ideas and examples of how adding a blog to your library website can help create a library based web community.
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Blog the Web with RSS: Is it Really Simple Syndication?
Wondering what blogs and RSS newsfeeds can do for you? Rushton Brandis of the California State Library tells all.
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Introduction to Chat
Chat and instant messaging has become the newest Internet craze among professionals. Not only does it let you chat online in real time, you can bypass both e-mail and the telephone.
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