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Googling, Tweeting, and Wikifying: Utilizing (And Participating In) The
Internet's Most Popular SitesGoogle, Twitter, and Wikipedia are consistently in the Top 10 most visited sites on the Internet, but each is much more than a simple destination. All three have great potential for providing reference assistance to patrons, keeping up-to-date on current events and trends, and sharing your expertise with the wider world. This program will share ideas on how to take an active role in each of these resources and how to get the most out of each one.
Utilizing(and Participating in)the Internet’s Most Popular Sites
Googling,Tweeting,and Wikifying
Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences 2013#olc_cc13
http://www.knowitnow.org
Don BoozerKnowItNow24x7 Coordinator
http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer
Who are we dealing with?
70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company
Who are we dealing with?
3 floors…For-profit
Who are we dealing with?
70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company
1 floor…Non-profit
Who are we dealing with?
3 floors…For-profit
70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company
ALL public libraries in the United States
Operating Revenue$
$11 billion
“Googling”
Utilizing
Utilizing
#1
GOOGLE IT
I’ll just…
GOOGLE IT
Search Books
Scholar Patents
Even More…
YouTube ImagesMaps
News
Early 2012
Early 2012
2013
What elsecan we find out aboutCharles Brush utilizing Google?
Report on manufacturing industries in the United States at the eleventh census: 1890
BRUSH FOUNDATION(The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History)“The BRUSH FOUNDATION was established in 1928 in Cleveland by CHARLES FRANCIS BRUSH, in memory of his son, Charles F. Brush, Jr. (d. 1927). The foundation supported the fledgling Maternal Health Assn. of Cleveland (later PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER CLEVELAND, PPGC) and played a significant role in the organization and funding of the Intl. Planned Parenthood Federation (1949).”
After that, you need a cookie…
www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com
Participating In
drive.google.com
drive.google.com
sites.google.com
sites.google.com
www.panoramio.com
picasa.google.com
www.youtube.com
blogger.com
little-people.blogspot.com
developers.google.com
“Tweeting”
Utilizing
#10
tweetping.net
http://techland.time.com/the-140-best-twitter-feeds-of-2012/
search.twitter.com
[kim jong un near:seoul]
[library near:columbus within:10mi]
#hashtag#olc_cc13
#ReadAcrossMaryland#ff
twubs.com
tagdef.com
Participating In
twitter.com/kin24x7@kin24x7
Replies,Retweets (RT),Modified Tweets (MT) and #hashtags
Conversations
Beyond basic text…
• dev.twitter.com/media/live-tweeting• dev.twitter.com/media/hashtags• twittertoolsbook.com/how-to-use-twitter-hashtags/
Best Practices
“Wikifying”
Utilizing
#6
Referral tool…
Popular culture…
Popular culture…
Language study…
Language study…
Language study…
Local perspective…
Local perspective…
Participating In
Wikipedians• Over 18 million registered users• 270,000 active users monthly• 91% are male• 20% live in United States• 59% are aged 17 – 40
Share knowledge and hobbies…
Take control of online identity…
Promote local resources…
March 8, 2013
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training
Don Boozerdon@cpl.org
http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer
Thank you!
Don Boozerdon@cpl.org
http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer
BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES – Page 1• Rankings from http://www.alexa.com• Public Library operating revenue: https://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/pls2009.pdf• Google revenue: http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html• Wikimedia Foundation revenue: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf • Twitter revenue: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-01/twitter-said-to-expect-1-billion-in-sales-in-2014-on-ad-growth.html • Google locations: http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/• Twitter location: http://mashable.com/2012/06/21/twitter-new-san-francisco-headquarters-pics/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/• Photo: Wikimedia Foundation staff, San Francisco, California. Photographed by Lane Hartwell (http://fetching.net/) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Staff_05.jpg• Photo for Google Work-in-progress slide: “Portrait of Ernest Edwards, blacksmith of Drouin, Victoria” http://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/6174068586/ (plus addition of Google Logo)
BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES – Page 2• Photo for Charles Brush Arc Lamp: http://brentdurken.com/charles-brush-arc-lamp/ Photo of mail room: “U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII”http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3112472619 • Photo of “John, the Cook, baking slapjacks” http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/4493497975/ • Google Graveyard: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html • Instagram: http://instagram.com/• yfrog: http://yfrog.com/• Vine: https://vine.co/• twitpic: http://twitpic.com/• bitly: http://www.bitly.com
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