Social tools for librarians
Contact 2.0
Digital outreach
Social media trends
Who's who in web 2.0?
100
This social tool is a regularly-updated site of entries arranged in chronological order.
What is a blog?
100
This microblogging tool permits random thought-sharing (>140 characters) to tell others what you are doing.
What is Twitter?
100
Almost 60% of Canadians use this social networking site to stay in touch with families and relatives.
What is Facebook?
100
This social bookmarking site may be closing soon but some people still think it's 'tasty'.
What is delicious?
100
He worked at CERN in the 1990s and now works at the W3 consortium. He is widely seen as the inventor of the web.
Who is Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
200
This simple form of syndication allows users to "subscribe" to blogs, news or other websites.
What is an RSS Feed?
200
This social network of online communities permits free classified ads for housing, employment, items for sale, services, community events and discussion. Its rise is linked to drop in revenues at newspapers worldwide.
What is Craigslist?
200
This web 2.0 tool is well-known as an online journal where posts are listed chronologically in reverse order.
What is blogging (or blogs)?
200
This happens when you feel overwhelmed ...by messages, tweets and the sheer number of posts.
What is information overload? (or information glut)
200
This is the CEO of O'Reilly media who coined the phrase "Web 2.0"
Who is Tim O'Reilly?
300
This social form of "describing" materials in a catalogue involves assigning words or other labels to collate content.
What is social tagging? (also, folksonomic tagging)
300
This social tool is used to create documents collaboratively and you can also see changes in the 'history'.
What is a wiki?
300
Some say Facebook is a security risk and dislike CEO Mark ...of this company because of his cavalier attitude towards privacy.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
300
These social media sites are used by Vancouver police to identify participants in the Vancouver riots.
What is Twitter, Facebook and YouTube?
300
This Canadian male librarian blogs and advocates for web 2.0 at library conferences.
Who is Stephen Abrams?
400
This is the 'effect' when a network becomes more and more valuable to members as more and more people join it.
What is Metcalfe's law or the network effect?
400
This software is completely 'open' and free to alter by a group of smart mobs. Their goal is to improve and enhance software and engage in collaboration.
What is open-source software (OSS)?
400
This is a portable (even draggable) bit of code that can be (re)installed and (re)executed in a second, separate HTML-based web page.
What is a widget?
400
This young Barbados-born singer recently overtook Lady Gaga with the most followers on Facebook.
Who is Rihanna?
400
She is widely-regarded as one of the best minds in social media and works to elucidate the use of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook by teens.
Who is danah boyd?
500
He is famous for saying "It's not information overload... it's filter failure" in one of his essays.
Who is Clay Shirky?
500
This is a location based social networking website, a game and software for mobile devices, and you can end up being a 'mayor' of an establishment through repeated posts.
What is FourSquare?
500
This popular slide sharing site is used by librarians as a channel to store powerpoint slides.
What is SlideShare?
500
This is the replication, alteration and or rapid spread of a concept, idea, file or hyperlink on a social networking site.
What is a meme?
500
He invented LibraryThing.
Who is Tim Spaulding?
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