Social Networking:

MN-Obe Reference and Instruction Presentation (February 22nd, 2007)

MS Word version here: Social Networking.doc

Introduction: The Social Web

• The Machine Is Us
• Wikipedia says:
  • (add wikipedia quote here)

 

Social Networks and Libraries: What makes effective participation?

 

• Facebook
• Flickr
• Social Bookmarking

 

 

Libraries and Social Networks: What is the library's role in these networks?

 

• Social tools as a library collection
• Social tools and scholarly communication
• Personal/Professional Work
• Libraries as collaborators

 

Discussion Questions

 

• Do we lead? or do we follow?  Are we responsible for learning tools before the students or are they only important once students are there?

 

• Who is responsible for teaching and learning this stuff?
  • Connect to IL
  • Connection to IT
  • Privacy
  • Ethical Use

 

• Strategies for learning/keeping up
  • Making decisions

Tools we mentioned (or wanted to mention but didn't have time) and other resources

• Wikis:
  • PBwiki: http://pbwiki.com/
  • (include other examples of wikis?)
  • This presentation's wiki: http://mnobepresentations.pbwiki.com/
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
• Bugeja, Michael J.  "Facing the Facebook." The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2006.
  • http://chronicle.com/jobs/2006/01/2006012301c.htm
• Myspace: http://www.myspace.com
• Friendster: http://www.friendster.com
• Wikipedia: Http://en.wikipedia.org/
• Mitrano, Tracy  "A Wider World:  Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies." EDUCAUSE Review, Nov/Dec 2006, pp. 16-26.
  • http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0660.asp
• furl: http:www.furl.net
• del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/
  • Iris' link library: http://del.icio.us/ijastram
• flickr: http://www.flickr.com/
  • CSB/SJU Library on Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/csbsjulibrary/ (add us as a contact!)
  • Flickr Services: http://www.flickr.com/services/, and fd's flickr toys: http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/, and LeAnn's examples page: http://employees.csbsju.edu/lsuchy/flickrideas.htm
  • What can we do with Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/265279980/
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
• Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com
• Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader
• Meebo: http://www.meebo.com
• Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/start
• 5 Weeks to a Social Library (a conference/workshop happening via social tools): http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/blog
• Google Docs & Spreadsheets: http://docs.google.com/
• To Do lists from Backpack: http://backpackit.com/
• Random tools Iris finds: http://del.icio.us/ijastram/tools (feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/ijastram/tools)
• Examples of RSS feeds pushed out to people
  • Iris' liaison site
  • Subject Guides