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Staying up to dateWeb 2.0 tools
Julia Gross
The session is about…
• Information explosion
• Information overload
• New formats
• New technologies
Why are we overloaded?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/callumscott2/280532292/
• Change
• Technology
• Learning
• Trends
• Stay in touch
• Multitasking
• Chaos
Why are we overloaded?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tzofia/270800047/ BrittneyBush's photostream
Why do we need to keep up?
• Need to keep learning (lifelong)
• Be informed
• To our jobs
• Help students & staff
• Career
• Life
Web 1.0 ways to keep up
• Journals, books
• Conferences, seminars, PD
• Professional (ALIA)
• Listservs (WAIN)
• Forums
• Email – the killer!!
Keeping up with email
• File
• Use folders
• Sort
• Scan from reading window pane
• Delete
• Bulk delete
Keeping up with listservs
• WAIN
• Get digests
• Scan
• File
Web 2.0 and keeping up ….
Web 2.0 content…
• Blogs, quick read
• Podcasts, download to iPod
• SlideShare
• Flickr
• YouTube
Follow (learn from) other people
–Web 2.0 gurus
–their blogs, bookmarks, presentations, Twitter feed, podcasts, video
Two web 2.0 organising tools
• RSS
• Social bookmarking– Delicious
• Reference management– Connotea
– CiteUlike
– Zotero
– EndnoteWeb
Google updating tools
• RSS into your iGoogle page
• Google Reader RSS
• Google Alerts
iGoogle start page
Google account
Be organised!
• Use traditional methods (Web 1.0)
• Use new technologies (Web 2.0)
• Be realistic
• Prioritise
• Have a plan
• 10 mins a day…or whatever …
• Make time for it
Keeping up - 10 mins a day
File to social bookmarking
Tag to for later retrieval
Scan RSS feeds, email alerts
Select items of interest
Thanks …questions?