1. Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop
Kate Pitcher
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2. December 10, 2007

3. 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
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4. Introduction What is social software? What one needs to know
Technology requirements
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5. Social Software User-created content
User-driven = YOU decide what is popular!
Participatory web
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6. Social Software Discovery & Sharing Bookmarking Tagging Networking
Collaboration
Citation
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7. 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
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8. Social Discovery & Sharing
Blogs & RSS
Digg
Newsvine
Reddit
Sphere
Stumbleupon (plug-in/extension)
Thisisby.us
Slideshare
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9. Digg
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10. Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com
Click icon and “seed” in Newsvine
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11. Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net
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12. 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
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13. Social Bookmarking del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) BlogMarks Furl
Connotea
Simpy
Netvouz
Ma.gnolia
RawSugar (plug-in/extension)
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14. del.icio.us http://del.icio.us
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15. del.icio.us
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16. RawSugar http://www.rawsugar.com
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17. 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
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18. Social Tagging LibraryThing Shelfari Flickr
del.icio.us (plug-in/extension)
TagFetch (tag search engine)
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19. LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com
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20. LibraryThing
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21. Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com
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22. Flickr
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23. Social Collaboration
Multiple users collaborate and create, edit and delete content
Social annotation tools allow users to comment and annotate websites and documents online
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24. Social Collaboration
Wikis
Web annotation tools
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25. Wikis
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26. Web annotation tools Annotea Protonotes Stickis (plug-in/extension)
Fleck
Diggo (plug-in/extension)
JumpKnowledge
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27. Stickis http://stickis.com
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28. Stickis
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29. Diigo http://www.diigo.com
Download Diigo to your toolbar and use it to bookmark and annotate your favorite content
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30. Diigo
Click on Diigo toolbar and add comments or notes about the page you are visiting
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31. 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)
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32. Social Networking Facebook MySpace Friendster Ning Orkut LinkedIn hi5
Xanga
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33. Facebook http://www.facebook.com
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34. Ning http://www.ning.com
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35. 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
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36. Social Citation Tools
Zotero
CiteULike
BibSonomy
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37. Zotero http://www.zotero.org
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38. CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org
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39. Works Cited
Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2007.
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40. Presentation found at: http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com
For more information contact:
Kate Pitcher
Reference/Instruction & Web Development Librarian
Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
AIM: beebugkate
Social Software Tools
A RRLC Pizza Workshop
Presentation found at:
December 10, 2007