1. WISER: Gadgets and Widgets Jane Rawson, Vere Harmsworth Library Emma Cragg, Sainsbury Library

2. Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is a term being used to describe a new generation of internet sites and services which encourage participation and collaboration between user communities.

3. What’s in it for me? Sites/tools that can help you to: –Organise yourself on the web –Discover new content and bring the web to you –Share research and interesting content with others No technical know-how needed and it’s almost all free!

4. Tools to look at today Social bookmarking –del.icio.us, StumbleUpon etc Social cataloguing –My WorldCat, LibraryThing RSS feeds and readers –Google Reader, Bloglines Customised start pages –iGoogle, Page Flakes, NetVibes

5. Social bookmarking Create personal lists of web links Add comments or information Share web links with others Accessible from anywhere Add tags to classify/filter your list View other people’s lists and discover new sites

6. Social bookmarking sites http://del.icio.us http://www.connotea.org http://www.simpy.com http://www.stumbleupon.com http://digg.com http://reddit.com http://www.furl.net

7. Del.icio.us One of the first and most basic sites, pioneered tagging Oxford examples: –Vere Harmsworth Library: http://del.icio.us/vhllibhttp://del.icio.us/vhllib –History Faculty Library: http://del.icio.us/HFLOxfordhttp://del.icio.us/HFLOxford –Bodleian Law Library: http://del.icio.us/lawbodhttp://del.icio.us/lawbod

8. Posting Notes and tags Saved by others Use tags to filter Network – view other people’s links

9. Discovering with Delicious Search by keyword Search by tag http://del.icio.us/tag/http://del.icio.us/tag/[??] Subscribe to feeds by user or by tag Share your links

10. Social cataloguing Make personal lists of books, add notes and tags and share View other people’s lists/libraries View ‘social data’ – other people’s tags, reviews, ratings, recommendations

11. Web version of OCLC’s WorldCat, with web 2.0 features Create personal reading lists with space for notes, RSS feeds Share with others Export as citations Add social data to WorldCat records http://www.worldcat.org

12. Save to personal lists Save to delicious etc Add/read reviews Search Export to EndNote/ RefWorks

13. Feeds Save to delicious etc Add notes Create and export as bibliography

14. Like a WorldCat of personal libraries Catalogue your personal library and show it off with widgets Add and view social data– LT social data is much more comprehensive than My WorldCat Get recommendations Join groups to discuss http://www.librarything.com

15. Add books Filter with tags See who else owns it

16. Search View other people’s libraries Browse by tags Read reviews Get recommendations

17. LibraryThing bells & whistles

18. RSS feeds RSS = Really Simple Syndication Subscribe to updates from a variety of electronic resources –Keep up to date –Don’t miss out –Save time

19. RSS feed readers Also known as feed aggregators Organise feeds using folders and tags Share single items or entire feeds http://www.google.com/reader/ http://www.bloglines.com/

21. Sources Look for the RSS icon News sites e.g. Google News, BBC Databases e.g. Business Source Complete Blogs e.g. Financial Times, TechCrunch Social bookmarking sites e.g. del.icio.us

22. Start pages Redesign the web to suit your needs Create a launch pad for your research http://www.google.com/ig http://www.pageflakes.com/ http://www.netvibes.com/

23. Features Bookmarks E-mail RSS feeds Search tools To do lists External widgets; social networking, IM

25. RSS feeds and news

26. Web tools

27. Conclusion: Benefits Information comes to you Save time Content not restricted to one computer Customisable Share information Collective wisdom

28. Conclusion Organise yourself on the web –Save your bookmarks, create reading lists and bibliographies, rationalise your reading, build your own web portal Discover new content and bring the web to you –Use the ‘wisdom of crowds’ to filter the best of the web, subscribe to updates Share research and interesting content with others –Get back what you put in, make recommendations, work collaboratively