1. December 10, 2007 Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Kate Pitcher http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com/

2. December 10, 2007

3. Agenda What we will be covering: Web-based social software tools What we will not be covering: Gaming Podcasting IM or chat Screencasting Virtual worlds

4. December 10, 2007 Introduction What is social software? What one needs to know Technology requirements

5. December 10, 2007 Social Software User-created content User-driven = YOU decide what is popular! Participatory web

6. December 10, 2007 Social Software Discovery & Sharing Bookmarking Tagging Networking Collaboration Citation

7. 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

8. December 10, 2007 Social Discovery & Sharing Blogs & RSS Digg Newsvine Reddit Sphere Stumbleupon (plug-in/extension) Thisisby.us Slideshare

9. December 10, 2007 Digg http://digg.com

10. December 10, 2007 Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com Click icon and “seed” in Newsvine

11. December 10, 2007 Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net

12. 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

13. December 10, 2007 Social Bookmarking del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) BlogMarks Furl Connotea Simpy Netvouz Ma.gnolia RawSugar (plug-in/extension)

14. December 10, 2007 del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

15. December 10, 2007 del.icio.us

16. December 10, 2007 RawSugar http://www.rawsugar.com

17. 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

18. December 10, 2007 Social Tagging LibraryThing Shelfari Flickr del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) TagFetch (tag search engine)

19. December 10, 2007 LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com

20. December 10, 2007 LibraryThing

21. December 10, 2007 Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com

22. December 10, 2007 Flickr

23. 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

24. December 10, 2007 Social Collaboration Wikis Web annotation tools

25. December 10, 2007 Wikis

26. December 10, 2007 Web annotation tools Annotea Protonotes Stickis (plug-in/extension) Fleck Diggo (plug-in/extension) JumpKnowledge

27. December 10, 2007 Stickis http://stickis.com

28. December 10, 2007 Stickis

29. December 10, 2007 Diigo http://www.diigo.com Download Diigo to your toolbar and use it to bookmark and annotate your favorite content

30. December 10, 2007 Diigo Click on Diigo toolbar and add comments or notes about the page you are visiting

31. 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)

32. December 10, 2007 Social Networking Facebook MySpace Friendster Ning Orkut LinkedIn hi5 Xanga

33. December 10, 2007 Facebook http://www.facebook.com

34. December 10, 2007 Ning http://www.ning.com

35. 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

36. December 10, 2007 Social Citation Tools Zotero CiteULike BibSonomy

37. December 10, 2007 Zotero http://www.zotero.org

38. December 10, 2007 CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org

39. December 10, 2007 Works Cited Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online. Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2007.

40. December 10, 2007 Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop 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