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Introduction
Go back to LIBR 559M - Social Media for Information Professionals - Online Modules and Social media landscape
Five brief ontological views
- Socialize: "Being social", chit-chat, conversation: IM, Twitter, microblogging, social networking, blogs, etc.
- Collaborate/Create: partner/friend/network; think/write, build: wikis, Googledocs/presentations, Noodletools
- Teach/demo: share/organize: bookmarks, calendars, surveys, photos, LibraryThing, RSS, microblogging, pod/vodcasting, etc.
- Virtual play: "be", "immerse": gaming/Second Life/haptics/virtual services
- Mash/merge: mashups, semantic & social search, Yahoo pipes, etc.
Recurring themes in web 2.0
- Authoritative and/or scholarly content? or mere opinion?
- Does the tool 'fit'? Matching social software to library services
- Open access/closed; free/fee; open-open source/commercial
- Online identity, presentation, reputation
- Privacy (see Facebook privacy violations), copyright, liability
- Publicity/analysis/agitprop
- Research, evidence-based web 2.0, web 2.0 strategies
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