A summary of the NCSLI Panel held during the MSC 2010 Symposium in Pasadena, CA on March 25, 2010

1. Stalking Your NCSLI Buddi es NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 Or how I learned to use Web 2.0 . WEB 2.0 and METROLOGY A summary of the NCSLI Panel held during the MSC 2010 Symposium in Pasadena, CA on March 25, 2010 Titled: Presented by: Dr. Charles Motzko

6. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools BLOG A Blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material. FORUM An Internet forum, or message board. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board. WIKI A website that uses wiki software, allowing the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked Web pages, using a simplified markup language. TAGS Tagging forms is a complex systems dynamics. This means that even if there is no central controlled vocabulary to constrain the actions of individual users, the distribution of tags that describe different resources (i.e. websites distributions.

7. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools (Cont.) FOLKSONOMICS A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. RSS RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the RSS reader the feed's by clicking on the RSS URL or the RSS icon

8. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools (Cont.) CLOUDS Cloud computing services often provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers. MASHUPS Mashups refer to a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work.

9. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 Outline of Web 2.0 Tools (Cont.) SOCIAL NETWORKING A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Tens-of-Millions of people are using social networking websites regularly. The main types of social networking services are those, which contain category divisions (such as common interest or organizations), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular sites are Facebook (widely used worldwide); MySpace, and Twitter being the most widely used of all.

10. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools (Cont.) PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING Is a business-oriented social networking site mainly used for professional networking. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections . Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection. One of the more common professional networking sites is LinkedIn, which has more that 57 million users in the United States.

11. NCSL INTERNATIONAL SERVING THE WORLD OF MEASUREMENT SINCE 1961 An Overview of Web 2.0 Tools (Cont.) COLLABORATIVE WORKGROUPS Collaboration is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web. Collaboration is equal parts conversation and document. Another important element in online collaboration is web conferencing or webinars, which are live "synchronous" meetings. Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings or presentations via the Internet. The key is shared work where any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process .

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