{"id":410,"date":"2006-04-22T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=410"},"modified":"2006-04-22T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T02:54:54","slug":"social-software-in-academic-libraries-whats-most-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/22\/social-software-in-academic-libraries-whats-most-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Social software in academic libraries: what&#8217;s most important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May, I&#8217;m giving an hour-long talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontlibraryconference.org\/\">Vermont Library Association&#8217;s Annual Conference<\/a> about using social software in academic libraries.  The majority of the population I&#8217;ll be talking to has not used any of these tools, so I&#8217;m trying to figure out what would be most valuable to talk about.  I&#8217;m torn between providing a brief sketch of a whole bunch of these technologies or doing three technologies more in-depth (well, I&#8217;ll only have about 15 minutes for each, so it still won&#8217;t be <em>that<\/em> in-depth).  I feel like the attendees might be overwhelmed by me going over a whole bunch of things, but on the other hand, I&#8217;d love to expose them to as much as possible.  At the moment, I&#8217;m leaning towards just doing three technologies, but I&#8217;m not sure which ones I should focus on.  So I thought I&#8217;d ask all my very smart readers, of the technologies listed below, which three do you think I should discuss in my talk?  Which ones would be the most helpful to libraries that don&#8217;t have a lot of money and where the staff may not be the most tech-savvy?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogs<\/li>\n<li>Wikis<\/li>\n<li>RSS<\/li>\n<li>Social Bookmarking<\/li>\n<li>Screencasting<\/li>\n<li>Instant Messaging<\/li>\n<li>Podcasting<\/li>\n<li>Social Networking Software (Facebook, MySpace, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a good argument for me discussing more than three technologies, I&#8217;d love to hear it.  I&#8217;m very open to your ideas.  Thanks for your help!  I want this talk to be as useful as possible for the attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-May, I&#8217;m giving an hour-long talk at the Vermont Library Association&#8217;s Annual Conference about using social software in academic libraries. The majority of the population I&#8217;ll be talking to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-tech-trends","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}