Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Kate Pitcher http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com/ December 10, 2007
December 10, 2007
Agenda What we will be covering: What we will not be covering: Web-based social software tools What we will not be covering: Gaming Podcasting IM or chat Screencasting Virtual worlds December 10, 2007
Introduction What is social software? What one needs to know Technology requirements December 10, 2007
Social Software User-created content User-driven = YOU decide what is popular! Participatory web December 10, 2007
Social Software Discovery & Sharing Bookmarking Tagging Networking Collaboration Citation December 10, 2007
Social Discovery & Sharing Tools designed to make the discovery & sharing of news and information easy Content syndication (RSS) Management of information Ability to rate content Share websites with others December 10, 2007
Social Discovery & Sharing Blogs & RSS Digg Newsvine Reddit Sphere Stumbleupon (plug-in/extension) Thisisby.us Slideshare December 10, 2007
Digg http://digg.com December 10, 2007
Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com Click icon and “seed” in Newsvine December 10, 2007
Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net December 10, 2007
Social Bookmarking Allow users to store, tag and bookmark their favorite websites through a web-based login Users can categorize & classify content according to their own schemas December 10, 2007
Social Bookmarking del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) BlogMarks Furl Connotea Simpy Netvouz Ma.gnolia RawSugar (plug-in/extension) December 10, 2007
del.icio.us http://del.icio.us December 10, 2007
del.icio.us December 10, 2007
RawSugar http://www.rawsugar.com December 10, 2007
Social Tagging Process of creating labels and keywords for content online Tags are personal Easier for retrieval Allows users to create meaningful vocabulary and create a personal organizational schema December 10, 2007
Social Tagging LibraryThing Shelfari Flickr del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) TagFetch (tag search engine) December 10, 2007
LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com December 10, 2007
LibraryThing December 10, 2007
Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com December 10, 2007
Flickr December 10, 2007
Social Collaboration Multiple users collaborate and create, edit and delete content Social annotation tools allow users to comment and annotate websites and documents online December 10, 2007
Social Collaboration Wikis Web annotation tools December 10, 2007
Wikis December 10, 2007
Web annotation tools Annotea Protonotes Stickis (plug-in/extension) Fleck Diggo (plug-in/extension) JumpKnowledge December 10, 2007
Stickis http://stickis.com December 10, 2007
Stickis December 10, 2007
Diigo http://www.diigo.com Download Diigo to your toolbar and use it to bookmark and annotate your favorite content December 10, 2007
Diigo Click on Diigo toolbar and add comments or notes about the page you are visiting December 10, 2007
Social Networking Online communities built around common interests “…idea that one person’s connections to other people are more important than the person’s attributes…” (Farkas 110). User’s identity (profile) becomes paramount Allow users to connect to each other (a la six degrees of separation) December 10, 2007
Social Networking Facebook MySpace Friendster Ning Orkut LinkedIn hi5 Xanga December 10, 2007
Facebook http://www.facebook.com December 10, 2007
Ning http://www.ning.com December 10, 2007
Social Citation Tools Allows user to gather, organize and manage sources while doing research Some function like bibliographic citation software (EndNote, RefWorks) Users can manage references and produce bibliographies while also tagging and interacting with content December 10, 2007
Social Citation Tools Zotero CiteULike BibSonomy December 10, 2007
Zotero http://www.zotero.org December 10, 2007
CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org December 10, 2007
Works Cited Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2007. December 10, 2007
Presentation found at: http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com For more information contact: Kate Pitcher Reference/Instruction & Web Development Librarian Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo pitcher@geneseo.edu http://www.geneseo.edu/~pitcher AIM: beebugkate Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Presentation found at: http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com December 10, 2007