Information professionals have long recognized the value of implementing web 2.0 technologies to reach out to their constituencies and we have seen in the past few weeks examples of how blogs are used by libraries to disseminate information about their programs and services, or use RSS as a way to provide newsfeeds of upcoming events, [...]
Archive for February, 2009
In this post, I compared Facebook with the SJSU-sponsored SLISLife and also touched on what are the benefits of subscribing to a social network that caters to a particular group, read on.
Signing up for an account for SLISLife is similar to Facebook, basic information like name,email address and type of user is required. Type of [...]
Playing with Facebook
Feb 25
This week our LIBR 246 class’ activities focused on social networking and online communities. The class was able to sample different types of online communities, from those that cater to the public to one that is exclusive to a particular group. Facebook and Flickr falls under the category of online communities and social networks that [...]
Postscript on wikis
Feb 22
When I checked on the Wikipedia article I edited and discussed in last week’s post, I was surprised that the additions I made were edited out. Although, the picture I posted was retained, it was given a new caption. I tried reverting the history to my edits, but in less than a day the person [...]
Wiki, wiki, wiki! (Part 2)
Feb 17
Part 2 of 2
continued from Part 1
Creating a wiki on PBWiki
PBWiki is a commercial wiki application and hosting service. Signing up for a personal account is free and gets you 2 GB of storage with the paid service starting at $99 per year for a personal account. Aside from 2 GB of storage, the free [...]
Wiki, wiki, wiki! (Part 1)
Feb 17
Part 1 of 2
For the past two days I continued working on wikis, this time not only editing a wiki, but actually creating a wiki of my own. The next set of activities for our LIBR 246 class is to: install the open source application, MediaWiki, on the SJSU Senna server, create a wiki on [...]
Editing wikis
Feb 16
This week, our LIBR 246 class is working on wikis. Two of the week’s actvities are editing the LIBR 246 class wiki and editing a public wiki. Aside from occasionally consulting Wikipedia as a source of preliminary information for a research paper, or to read up summaries of TV series or book series I am [...]
