A presentation for the Jefferson County (CO) Public Library 2008 All Staff Day. Links and photo credits are at http://stevelawson.name/jeffco2008/

1. social software for library people Steve Lawson Humanities Librarian, Colorado College stevelawson.name/seealso

2. what are we talking about? web 2.0 ? library 2.0 ? read / write web ? social software ?

3. the web

5. fearfully anticipated questions

6. fearfully anticipated question number one: “ why should I care about this stuff at all?”

7. 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

8. facebook pages

9. myspace profiles

10. flickr photos

11. share

12. professional & personal networking

13. 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

14. blogorwiki?

15. blogs for libraries

16. blogs for librarians

17. blogs for…other things

18. wikipedia: article

19. wikipedia: edit

20. wikipedia: history

21. wikipedia: fight talk

22. wikis for library people

23. wikis for sharing

26. technorati.com

27. http://fishingjones.com/

28. find new social sites

29. contextual egomania

30. this stuff looks stupid from the outside

31. does she really have 860 “friends?”

32. who cares about his cat?

33. and just what is a “poke?”

36. connecting with the past

37. connecting with people around you

38. concoct games

39. folksonomics

40. del.icio.us/bevedog

41. del.icio.us/tag

42. flickr.com/photos/tags

43. Flickr tag clusters

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

45. LibraryThing tagmash

46. the del.icio.us lesson: “ personal value precedes network value” -Joshua Porter

47. useless?

48. tagging ≠ panacea Ann Arbor District Library LibraryThing

49. tagging

50. fearfully anticipated question number three: when do you find the time for all this?

53. imashination

54. social software make sharing easier

55. Flickr URL: http://flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/436729333/ (54 characters)

56. American Memory URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hawp:2:./temp/~ammem_iw2d::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,mfd,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs (852 characters)

57. embed video

58. embed video

59. blog photos

60. feeds Surround and penetrate social software and bind the World Wide Web together -Jason Griffey / Obi-Wan Kenobi

61. feed for a blog

62. blog feed in Google Reader

63. blog feed in netvibes

64. Flickr feeds

65. YouTube feeds

66. api = application programming interface = magical pixie dust

69. fearfully anticipated question number 4: do you really expect us to do all of this stuff?

70. no

72. thanks! slides, links, photo credits are here: http://stevelawson.name/jeffco2008