#7 - Wikis & Social Networking
...or “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MySpace”
Learning Objectives
- Learn about Wikis and discover some of the innovative ways they are being used as information sources.
- Learn about the ever popular world of online social networking.
- Take a look at the CommonCraft video, "Social Networking in Plain English."
- Take a look at the CommonCraft video, "Wikis in Plain English."
Skills Practice
- Browse Wikipedia or any other library related Wiki (hint: search Google with "library wiki" and check out the results).
- Be bold, be one with the collaborative masses - edit a Wiki entry!
- Browse MySpace and see how libraries are using it to reach out to its online customers.
Experience Sharing
- Discuss - by commenting on the hcplc=Lib2.0 blog- how Wikis and social networking Web sites could be used by the library as information resources.
Resources
- Library Technology Reports (July, August, 2006) - "Wikis."
- Pew Internet & American Life Project, “Wikipedia Users.”
- Pew Internet & American Life Project, “Social Networking Websites and Teens: An Overview.”
- Caroline Middlebrook, "The Big Juicy Twitter Guide."
- OCLC Report: "Sharing, Privacy & Trust in Our Networked World." (2007)
- Social Networking GOD: 350+ Social Networking Sites (at Mashable.com).
- SirsiDynix Institute, "Wiki: The Ultimate Tool For Online Collaboration."
- Marshall Poe, “The Hive, Can Thousands of Wikipedians be Wrong?”
- "Learning 2.0: What's in a Wiki?" by Helene Blowers
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