Social networking and social media How can we use them in the Wits libraries Prof Derek W. Keats...

Social networking andsocial media

How can we use them in the Wits libraries

Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor

(Knowledge & Information Management)The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

http://kim.wits.ac.zaderek.keats@wits.ac.za

In ancient times people used computers to send email and...

... to surf the Web in web browsers that only opened HTML pages

Feb 1998

Then something changed...

I only use email to

talk to old people.

What's email?

I am readingGarfield's blog about Dinophysis.

This isRuff

McRuff,and your Lbrarian'spodcast

Socialnetworks

Mobile technologies

Society – technology co-evolution

Derek's big five

Subject to rapid evolutionary change in response to selection pressures

Narcissism

StalkingADHD

Syndication RSS

Syndication & RSS Information from a website is made available

in XML form (feed), including a link for more information

Two common formats, RSS and Atom You subscribe to the feed, so it is PUSHED to

you instead of you having to GO FETCH IT

What is CHISIMBA?What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the

framework used to build a traditional African house

An object-oriented framework for rapid

development of distributed software applications

A suite of applications built with the framework, including the KEWL3 eLearning application

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