Everything You Always Wanted to Know About 2.0
But Were Afraid to Ask

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/nassau

Links From Talk

• Slides: keynote format, pdf
• Widget defined
• Web 2.0 defined
• Twitter: Q17, CDC, Duke's Ford Library (on twitter), 100 ways to use twitter
• Widget examples: North Tonawanda (more facebook widgets, twitter widgets)
• Places to get widgets: Yahoo widgets (runs on desktop), widgetbox
• Rss feed to Email
• Feed to js [i.e. get a widget]
• More ideas: slideshare libraries tag, twittering librarians, Library Success wiki

Exercises

1. DIY Widgets: find something you like, find its RSS feed, embed the RSS feed someplace else.
   • Portals you can experiment with: Yahoo, Google, NYTimes, Netvibes, a few more options
   • How to embed almost anything.
2. Mix and match: what tech tool is right for this task?
   • New book announcements
   • Guest speaker & program promotion
   • Quick updates to the library website (snow day/emergency)
   • Staff communication
   • Tech support log
3. Twitterize me! Announce and promote and communicate in 140 characters or less. (check your work)

Image credits

• disclaimer card
• cat page, cat blog, catster, sockington.
• Mimeograph photo
• Courier trucks