Presentation given at the CILIPS event 2nd July 2009

1. Practical uses for Web 2.0 in
your organisation
Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and
Internet Consultant.
http://www.philb.com

2. Libraries and Web 2.0
• It’s not about the tools
• It’s about the mindset
• It’s about the activity
• It’s about freeing up time
• It’s about taking control

3. So!
• What is it that libraries and librarians do
again?

4. Communication - weblogs

6. Minimum expectations

7. But how about...?

8. Flickr

9. But expand the use!

10. Wordle.net

11. Bookmarks/Favo(u)rites
• Share resources
• Network with colleagues
• Take a feed and place it onto an appropriate
page
• Use it as a search engine

12. Del.icio.us

14. Google RSS reader to share
content

15. Wallwisher

16. Nik Peachey’s Wallwisher

17. Glogster

18. Home/Start Pages
• Netvibes
• Pageflakes
• Virtual library pages or portals
• Ease of updating
• Interactive

21. Social networking

24. Ning

25. Google groups

26. Wikis
• Self created websites
• Single/multi authored
• Public/private
• Quick and dirty/Very professional
• Short term task
• Long term project

27. PBworks

29. Disposable web pages

30. Google docs

31. Xmarks

32. Google Custom Search

33. Search with RSS

34. Instant chat

35. Ask a librarian!

38. Twitter

39. Add a Twitter feed to your blog

40. Yammer or Shoutem

41. Screentoaster

42. Instructional videos

43. Slideshare.net

44. Embed presentations

45. WizIQ

46. Mash-ups

47. Podcasting

49. Audacity recording software

51. Multimedia

53. VoiceThread

54. ‘One trick ponies’
• They do one thing, very well.

55. LibraryThing

56. Bookseer

57. Drop.io

58. And then...
• Blend it all together
• Web sites are now of different importance
• Everything should link to everything else

60. In summary
• ITANTTS
– (It’s the activity, not the tool, stupid!)
• If a tool only does one thing, drop it
• Forget loyalty
• Try it and see what happens; understand what
you want to achieve
• Combine and blend
• Take control!

61. Thanks to:
• http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthlibraries/3638349056/
• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Se2CEhZjQyo/SZ60IsJ9HmI/AAAAAAAAAeY/1ExtNzF_Pec/s1600-h/librarian%5B1%5D.jpg (For
the ask a librarian cartoon)
• http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20