http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/04/07/community-20/ Ellyssa Kroski has a new essay up and I urge all TTW readers to take a look. This overview of community and social tools is incredible! Community 2.0 means the end of walled gardens. It’s about building trust with users through quality, consistency, and the abdication of power. It’s about letting go of the fear of becoming obsolete and simply adapting and adopting a new strategy.
Yearly Archives: 2006
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(A confession: I’ve been sitting on this post a LONG time…I finally decided to put it out there and see how it goes.) I happened across this post at Wandering Eyre entitled “IM me. Oh wait, we do not do that here. (Read the whole post & the comments!) “…my library’s new web developer, and my technology partner in crime, asked me last week why we do not have IM. It is blocked on the staff computers and we do not do chat reference. I sighed heavily and told her that was a conversation best had over drinks, but I […]
While Jessamyn and Greg were making cookies and flickr-izing the recipe, the New Jersey library association was getting active on flickr. I was added as a contact. 🙂 New Jersey Library Association (Put up some pictures folks!) Through NJ, I found: Arkansas State Library (Check out Jack’s Retirement Party!) I’d like to see many more library associations jump into the Flickr pool.
Via The Goblin in the Library: An Essay by Brian S. Mathews He asks some good questions: Can we as a profession ever really get beyond the “it’s always been done like that” mentality and provide a catalog that patrons actually want to use? that tie directly into the 5 Phrases I Hope I Never Hear post.
http://www.mazar.ca/2006/04/08/10-ways-to-lose-your-best-people/ “10 Attitudes That Would Make this “techie” Librarian High-Tail it Out of Your Library” Another entry in the meme that makes some super good points by a librarian named Rochelle from Canada. Here’s #5: 5. Blogs are stupid. “Blog people” are even stupider. What’s a wiki? Why should I care? It’s best to approach all new applications not only with skepticism, but with active distrust and scorn.
Newsweek Cover Story (HOTX3): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/ Discover magazine article: http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-05/departments/emerging-technology/ Web 2.0 Definition at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Phil Bradley writes about using Squidoo to create teaching aids. It’s a “How to..” do anything social site with some cool features and a definite Web 2.0 feel. http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2006/03/squidoo_as_a_te.html Here’s his “lens” for web design: http://www.squidoo.com/webdesigning/ Here’s the lens for an “Intro to Web 2.0:” http://www.squidoo.com/introtoweb20/ UPDATE: More lenses from Phil: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2006/04/my_squidoo_lens.html
Authority in the Age of the Amateur The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging
Via the Social Software Blog: I.M. Generation Is Changing the Way Business Talks Banks, insurance companies and other old-school businesses are using instant messaging to communicate with customers and quickly route queries, all within seconds. In the not-so-distant past, e-mail was considered state of the art, and responding within 24 hours was considered prompt. Those days seem quaint now; instant messaging is used in more than 80 percent of corporations, according to a report by Michael Osterman, an industry analyst. This article details the many – and I mean MANY – benefits of IM in the business world. One point […]
iPod fan? iTunes Music Store Shopper? Perplexed about the music services? Check out this post at TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/07/lets-buy-some-music-part-1/