Using Web 2.0 Principles to Become Librarian 2.0

Required Readings for KSU SLIS Workshop 

Best of the Best Web 2.0 Web Sites

This blog entry at Software Development in the Real World tries to list the best of the best in Web 2.0.

DaVinci Institute - Future of Libraries

Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute put together his 10 key trends related to the future of libraries.

Library 2.0

Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk (September 1, 2006, LibraryJournal.com) describe the Library 2.0 movement, including links to additional resources.

What is Web 2.0

Lets read about Web 2.0 from the original person to coin the term, Tim O'Reilly.

Web 2.0 Tools - Audio, Pictures, and Video 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about multimedia.

Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Flickr - Photo Sharing

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.

Hipcast

Create audio, podcasts, or videocasts by various options including online, upload, or telephone.

Media Convert

Converting sound, text and video files.

Picasa

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you find, organize and share your photos.

Polar Rose

Polar Rose makes photos searchable by analyzing their content and recognizing the people in them.

SlideShare

A place to share and discover slideshows. Upload slides, share with links, embed in blogs, tagging, etc.

YouTube

Video sharing site.

VideoDownloader

Download direct from most video sites.

vixy.net

This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.

Media Converter - the fastest free online audio and video converter

Convert your media files from your hard disk, by url/stream (http,ftp,mms,rtsp) or directly from Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, LiveVideo, MetaCafe, Veoh or Youtube. Many file types are supported!

animoto - the end of slideshows

Animoto videos - music videos for your images, video clips and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, Animoto videos blow the doors off traditional slideshows; it is time to move past the slideshow and embrace Animoto -free, easy, beautiful.

TeacherTube

Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website.

Web 2.0 Tools - Blogging 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about blogging.

b2evolution

Free, open source, multilingual, multiuser, multiblog software.

Blogger

Blogging software owned and powered by Google.

Bloggies - Weblog Awards

The Weblog Awards are a non-profit project created in 2001 to award the best blogs. All the Bloggie winners are chosen by the public.

Movable Type

Blogging platform for organizations.

WordPress

Semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Vox

Vox is a free hosted social blogging service that lets people connect through privacy controls, design templates, publishing tools, photos, videos & online neighborhoods. Join today!

Free Blog Templates for Wordpress & Movabletype - CSSEZ

CSSEZ is a online based blog design tools for Wordpress, movable type, and much more. You can create a beautiful designs without any knowledge of CSS, HTML in 5 minutes.

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008

Since 2004, the annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, they resolved to go beyond the numbers of the Technorati Index to deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind.

Web 2.0 Tools - Bookmarking & Tagging 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about tagging.

CiteULike

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.

claimID.com

Manage your online identity.

coComment

coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you're following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation. Publish your conversations to your blog in a click, or send them to your friends via email. Check out the top commenters, what articles and posts are generating the most comments, who's commenting on the same conversations as you.

Connotea

Free online reference management for all researchers, clinicians and scientists.

del.icio.us

Social bookmarking web site.

Digg

Digg is a user driven social content website.

Squidoo

Squidoo builds a lens - one person's view on a topic that matters to him/her. It's an easy-to-build, single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, CafePress designs,

SuprGlu

SuprGlu helps you gather your content from all over the web and publish in one place. Brought to you by Iridesco, Inc.

Web 2.0 Tools - Collaboration & Productivity 

Basecamp

Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your clients (or just your own internal team) keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in a password-protected central location.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Online tool for individual or group document creation and editing.

SurveyMonkey.com

SurveyMonkey.com is a revolutionary new tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.

Ta-da Lists

Simple, sharable to-do lists.

Writeboard

Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes.

Zoho

Zoho offers a suite of online web applications geared towards increasing your productivity and offering easy collaboration. Zoho's online office tools include a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool, hosted wiki, notebook, CRM etc.

Web 2.0 Tools - Gaming 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about gaming.

eGames Generator

eGames Generator allows you to create your own custom learning games. Corporate trainers, educators, teachers, and parents use eGames Generator to add more challenge and interactivity to their learning programs. Since eGames Generator is online software, there are no downloads or messy installations necessary: you can have your first game published in just a few minutes, and it's entirely free!

Second Life

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.

Second Life Library 2.0 Blog

Second Life Library 2.0 Blog

Second Life Wiki

Wiki established for and by the members of Second Life.

Web 2.0 Tools - GIS & Mapping 

Frappr!

Frappr! is the Web's community mapper.

Web 2.0 Tools - Instant Messaging & Other Communication Tools 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about instant messaging.

Gaim

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.

Meebo

Web-based instant messaging application that combines all the major IM services into one.

Skype

Internet call software and service.

Trillian

Cerulean Studios makes Trillian and Trillian Pro, both are software applications for instant messaging. Compatible with all the major IM applications.

Twitter: What are you doing?

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time

Web 2.0 Tools - Library Specific Tools 

Library Elf

Personal reminder service for library users. Avoid library overdues with email alerts. Also offering text message alerts for holds. Elf - reminder and notification service developed for library users by library users.

LibraryThing

LibraryThing catalogs your books online, easily, quickly and for free.

Scriblio

Scriblio (formerly WPopac) is an award winning, free, open source CMS and OPAC with faceted searching and browsing features based on WordPress. Scriblio is a project of Plymouth State University, supported in part by the Andrew

unLibrary.com

Catalog your books online and share them with people from your community.

Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia

See what your friends are reading. Keep track of what you've read and organize your book lists into shelves. Join a book club to discuss your favorite books. A better way to find good books to read!

Web 2.0 Tools - Mashups 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about mashups.

Mashup Dashboard

Hundreds of mashups with new updates daily.

Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix

ProgrammableWeb's Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix

Web 2.0 Tools - RSS 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about RSS feeds & readers.

Attensa

Free RSS reader for use with Microsoft Outlook.

BlogBridge

Desktop application for reading RSS feeds.

Bloglines

Web-based RSS reader, including blogging capabilities.

Feed2JS

Feed2JS website provides a free service to have RSS content displayed on your own web page with any programming skills.

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. It offers tools to help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web.

Google Reader

Google's RSS Reader in its "lab".

How to Create an RSS Feed

Learn more about the code behind a RSS feed.

neomyz - RSS Web Reader

The Neomyz RSS Web Reader is an easy way to put the latest news, from almost any news feed or news server in the world, directly into your own website. Now you can have the latest news on your pages, automatically updated for you 24 hours a day.

NewsGator

Free web-based RSS aggregator or various for money installation options.

RSS Aggregator on Wikipedia

An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is client software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results.

RSS Builder

RSS Builder is an easy to use program to create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links, content, and enclosures, then publish the RSS (v2.0) feed to your web server, using the built-in FTP client.

RSS Compendium - RSS Search

These are links to major RSS feeds search tools. This list will eventually be turned into a database.

RSS from Wikipedia

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.

RSS Readers

A directory of feed readers, which are used to scan or read many sites at once.

RSS Search Engines on Search Engine Watch

Part two of our series on RSS takes a look at the specialized search tools that help you locate content in blogs, feeds and other sources of information.

Web 2.0 Tools - Search Engines 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about search engines.

BlogPulse

BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.

Feedster

Feedster is a search engine for RSS feeds and created content.

Google Blog Search

Find blogs on your favorite topics.

KartOO

KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.

LibWorm: Librarianship RSS Search and Current Awareness

LibWorm is intended to be a search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries or care about libraries.

Podscope

Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.

Podzinger

PODZINGER is an audio and video search engine.

Technorati

Searchs, surfaces, and organizes blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.).

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines

Online Education Database's Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines as of Tuesday 6th of February, 2007.

Web 2.0 Tools - Social & Collaborative Networks 

Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.

Friendster

Friendster is a global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends. Search for old friends and classmates, stay in better touch with friends, share photos and videos, and so much more!

LinkedIn

LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.

MySpace

MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends.

Ning

Users can create their own public or private social network.

Web 2.0 Tools - Wiki 

Online sites, software, FAQs, or tutorials for and about wikis.

JotSpot

Watch for this to develop. JotSpot was bought by Google and will be Google's wiki platform in the future.

LISWiki

The Library and Information Science Wiki, a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

PBwiki

PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. It's as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.

PBwiki Central / PBwikiTips

PBwiki Central hosts a categorized list of public wikis created by users. You'll also find tips here on using PBwiki.

Seedwiki

With a free account you can start as many wikis as you want. You can also use your account to subscribe to change notifications. We have no ads on seedwiki, and no limits on the number of wikis or number of pages you can create. If you want to limit who can see or edit your wiki, you will need a paid account. Unless a wiki has a password, or is a members-only, anyone can read and edit wiki pages, with or without an account. You can turn a wiki into any kind of site you want, from a to-do list to a full blown commercial web site. Every part of your wiki is customizable, from the color of the backgrounds to the words on the menu buttons. If the built in features aren't enough to do what you want, we're here to help you with custom wiki consulting.

Wikimedia Foundation

A variety of tools, collaborative efforts, and software.

Wikimedia Text Examples

Help sheet for WikiMedia text formatting examples.

WikiMatrix

WikiMatrix provides tools to compare and pick the best wiki application for you.

XWiki

XWiki is an open source wiki written in Java and released under the LGPL license. XWiki offers all the features that you can find in a typical wiki. In addition, XWiki is a second generation wiki (a.k.a an application wiki), ideally suited for developing collaborative web applications.

PBwiki Educational Advisory Board

This is a wiki where people collaborate on making PBwiki easier and more useful for educators.

Education Wikis - Engage, Collaborate & Educate | PBwiki.com

PBwiki lets you quickly set up your own free, hosted, password-protected wiki to edit and share information. It's as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.

PBwiki Presenter Packs

If you're giving a presentation about PBwiki or wikis in general, we're thrilled to offer our PBwiki Presenter Packs to you--for free.

PBwiki Presenter Pack Information

Access to presentations included with Presenter Pack.

Wikispaces

We have given away over 210,000 wikis for K-12 education.

Free Website - Wetpaint

Wetpaint is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for fansites, groups, classes, and more; start your free website in 3 steps.