- Aaron Schmidt
- Reference Librarian, Thomas Ford Memorial Library, close to Chicago.
- Author of walkingpaper.org
- What's the big deal about social software?
- Why should I care?
- What are the best sites to check out?
- What are others doing?
- You've heard quite a bit about weblogs and Instant Messaging
- Software that lets people connect, collaborate and communicate over the web
- PEOPLE
- Really, its fun
- Injects humanness into the Web
- Going where the user is
- Free!
- People are doing library-like things online. For fun.
- Can enhance your web presence
- More personal
- People have high expectations of interaction - experience
- People want to create, and contribute
- Can be useful for librarians
- Commonalities
- folksonomies
- metadata by non-librarians!
- tags --> keywords
- no heirarchy
- wisdom of the crowd
- a move from expertise to consensus
- these supplement and complement
- they don't replace
- photo sharing
- organized by tags
- RSS Feeds: an individual's photos, comments on your photos, photos tagged with a certain term
- slideshows
- much more
- Store and share bookmarks on the web
- Organize by tags
- See what others are bookmarking
- See popular bookmarks http://del.icio.us/popular/
- See all bookmarks for a certain tag http://del.icio.us/tag/reference
- Chart musical profile thorough a plug-in
- Display your tastes
- Recommendations
- Personal radio station
- The free, in both ways, encyclopedia
- Group contributions, group edits
- For now, this is the province of the digitally advanced
- However, these things can be useful for our websites, and our work
- We can guide our communities
- What happens if our communities don't learn how to communicate on the web?
- Let's make the assumption that in the future:
- people have content
- people have hardware
- What will libraries be doing?
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Our role of educational and cultural institutions
- CLOSE THE PARTICIPATION GAP
- new literacy [here I'm channeling Jenny]
- books are for use
- collections serve no purpose if they just sit
- we're nothing without our communities
- we need to be user centered
- we can go where our users are (or will be) and strengthen community ties with social software
- Practice!
- Upload some photos to Flickr, subscribe to the tag "library"
- Bookmark 5 interestintg sites on del.icio.us
- Explore the MySpace phenomena and get freaked out
- Browse AskMetafilter
- Aaron Schmidt
- AIM: XXagentcooperXX
- e: librarian |at| gmail |dot| com
- w: walking paper
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