Conference held on August 12th 2008 at the World Alliance Headquarters of the YMCA, in Geneva about Web 2.0 tools in small organisations and businesses

1. Web 2.0 Resources and tools for the YMCA Marylène Goulet Student at HEG-Genève Information Science August 12 th 2008, Geneva YMCA World Alliance Headquarters

4. A web « 1.0 » page Image and text Links to navigate through the website Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA Aug. 12th, 2008

5. A web « 2.0 » page React to the stories Share content Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA Aug. 12th, 2008

6. Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA “ Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity , information sharing , and, most notably, collaboration among users . These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.” Wikipedia, Web 2.0 , retrieved on August 9 th , 2008 Aug. 12th, 2008

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9. Folksonomy and tags Folksonomy : formed of folk (people) and taxonomy (classification by families, gender). It is a collaborative classification, decentralized and spontaneous based on terms chosen by the user themselves ; tags. Tags : keyword that user can put on an electronic document (picture, text, web link) and describing it’s content. Aug. 12th, 2008 Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA

10. Mashups Mashups : composite applications created by merging data One of the first of it’s kind was the merging of the local crime statistics of Chicago and Google Maps. Aug. 12th, 2008 Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA

11. Blog Blog : Came from the terms “web” and log”. Personal journal available on the web. Can be held by anybody who has an internet connexion, it can also present multimedia content; pictures, sounds, videos Aug. 12th, 2008 Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA

12. A word about RSS Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA Aug. 12th, 2008

13. Aug. 12th, 2008 Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA An example of a RSS reader

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24. Netvibes summary Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA Aug. 12th, 2008

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28. Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA The worst case… Aug. 12th, 2008

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32. Thank you! Questions? Marylene Goulet [email_address] Aug. 12th, 2008 Web 2.0 : resources and tools for the YMCA