social software for

library peopleSteve Lawson

Humanities Librarian, Colorado College

stevelawson.name/seealso

what are we talking about?

web 2.0 ?library 2.0 ?

read / write web ?social software ?

the web

according to Meredith Farkas:

Social software must do at least two of the following:

1. allows people to communicate, collaborate, & build community online

2. can be syndicated, shared, reused, or remixed (or facilitates same)

3. lets people learn easily from & capitalize on the behavior or knowledge of others

fearfully anticipated questions

fearfully anticipated question number one:

“why should I care about this stuff at all?”

as library people

“Social software seems like a free and easy way to give your library a human face on the larger Internet.… I feel that it’s all of our responsibility as online community members of various stripes, to provide positive examples of social software online.”

— Jessamyn West

facebook pages

myspace profiles

flickr photos

share

professional& personalnetworking

maybe you don’t need to care

I feel as if most of us aren’t understanding this. Social Media is not for everyone for one reason alone: Not everyone wants to socialize online 24/7.

- Corvida, “It’s OK to Ignore Social Media” on SheGeeks

blogorwiki?

blogs for libraries

blogs for librarians

blogs for…other things

wikipedia: article

wikipedia: edit

wikipedia: history

wikipedia: fight talk

wikis for library people

wikis for sharing

pop quiz: blog or wiki?

• Travel diary• Planning a party• Library subject guides• Local model rocketry club• Private site for planning a home

rennovation

fearfully anticipated question number two:

“how do you find interesting sites?”

technorati.com

http://fishingjones.com/

find new social sites

contextual egomania

this stuff looks stupid from the

outside

does she really have 860 “friends?”

who cares about his cat?

and just what is a “poke?”

danah boyd

participants on social network sites “write their community into being through the process of Friending. In doing so, they help define themselves and the context in which they are operating.”

danah boyd

“While most participants surf the site through the networks themselves, most newcomers and non-participants use the search feature and are absolutely horrified by what they may see.”

connecting with the past

connecting with people around you

concoct games

folksonomics

del.icio.us/bevedog

del.icio.us/tag

flickr.com/photos/tags

Flickr tag clusters

http://www.librarything.com/tagcloud.php

LibraryThing tagmash

the del.icio.us lesson:

“personal value precedes network value”-Joshua Porter

useless?

tagging ≠ panaceaAnn ArborDistrict Library

LibraryThing

tagging

fearfully anticipated question number three:

when do you find the time for all this?

do it at work

“Library administrators and managers need to lead this change in their organizations. One way they can do this is to provide time, equipment, and training in order to successfully implement these new tools into the library’s digital space.”

— David Lee King

“cognitive surplus”

According to Clay Shirky:

Creation of Wikipedia to date =100 million hours

Watch TV / year in the USA = 200 billion hours

imashination

social software make sharing easier

Flickr URL: http://flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/436729333/

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embed video

embed video

blog photos

feeds

Surround and penetrate social software and bind the World Wide Web together

-Jason Griffey / Obi-Wan Kenobi

feed for a blog

blog feed in Google Reader

blog feed in netvibes

Flickr feeds

YouTube feeds

api=

application programming interface

=magical pixie dust

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/library/About/map.html

fearfully anticipated question number 4:

do you really expect us to do all of this stuff?

no

but here is your homework, should you

choose to accept it:

• choose three social software sites and sign up for them

• use them for two weeks• choose one to keep using for a

month• see what happens…

thanks!

slides, links, photo creditsare here:

http://stevelawson.name/jeffco2008