Collaborating online: Web 2.0 and beyond

Chris MavergamesWeb Operations Manager/Information Architect

The Cochrane Collaboration

Croatian Symposium

Split, 2 April 2011

Poll

How many of you use/have heard of the following?

Social networking: Facebook, LinkedIn Microblogging: Twitter Social bookmarking: CiteULike, del.icio.us,

Connotea Blogs, Wikis: medical and librarian blogs,

Medpedia; Blogger, Wordpress, pbwiki (services) Subscription services: RSS for anything

Cutting through the jargon

What was Web 1.0? Static pages, one-way interaction Searching instead of finding Passive approach to web pages – pages essentially

online documents Hyperlinks, email lists One-size-fits-all content

cochrane.org

Cutting through the jargon

What is different in Web 2.0? Dynamic pages, participatory interactions Information comes to you (push vs. pull) Customization of content, saved searches (iGoogle, “My

NCBI“ at Pubmed) More finding (or receiving), less searching Interactive pages: commenting, subscribing, posting, adding,

sharing, etc. All about the content (the technology gets simpler!) –

“Internet as platform“

igoogle.com

Some Web 2.0 applications and tools

Social networking: Facebook, LinkedIn Microblogging: Twitter Social bookmarking: CiteULike, del.icio.us,

Connotea Blogs, Wikis: medical and librarian blogs,

Medpedia; Blogger, Wordpress, pbwiki (services) Subscription services: RSS for

– Podcasts– News– Saved searches

More on Web 2.0

Push vs. Pull– Web 2.0 allows you to have information “pushed“ at you vs.

you having to “pull“ it

Finding vs. searching Via RSS, Twitterfeeds, Group updates, etc. Web 2.0 keywords: interact, share, collaborate, remix Internet as a platform (less downloading of software,

more use of online services)

Web 2.0 analogies and concepts

An analogy: – Web 1.0 = static on a radio– Web 2.0 = provides a tuner

“tuning the web“ “joining the conversation, already in progress“ Information can be very rich (C. Shirky - flickr

pages as technical manuals, “hdr“ example)

Social Networking services

Facebook, LinkedIn, 2Collab, and others These services allow you to create an online

profile so that you can interact with others:– Join groups that share your interests – Share links, notes, reading lists, videos, etc.– Comment on and discuss items shared by others– Use chat and messaging services

linkedin.com

2collab.com

Why use these tools?

Networking with like-minded individuals in your field

Enhancing your productivity by learning from and sharing with others

Exploring new interests or research topics Career and professional development Don‘t underestimate the power of these tools!

Microblogging - Twitter

Share short, 140-character messages (“tweets“)

You follow people and they follow you Filtering tools for Twitter allow filtering of

keywords of interest to you What is he talking about? Much easier to show

you!

twitter.com/cochranecollab

tweetdeck.com

Lists on Twitter

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Why Twitter?

Concept of “ambient awareness“, perfect example of ‚push‘ technology You won‘t see every tweet, but you‘ll be ‚ambiently‘ aware of the

conversation Tweet a question, get an answer! Share and find links to interesting sites Search Google for “twitter apps“ Get Twitter on your mobile device What‘s coming (hopefully) that will improve:

– Grouping of “friends”– Text links in tweets– Allow tweeting to a group– Etc.

Social Bookmarking

del.icio.us, CiteULike, Connotea Allow users to share collections of links User-generated tagging Like a giant bookmarks database CiteULike and Connotea are specifically for

scholarly references

citeulike.org

del.icio.us

Why use social bookmarking?

Discover new, relevant articles and websites New links come to you via RSS or your account on

these services Access your bookmarks anywhere, from any browser Export citations easily (CiteULike) and organize your

scholarly papers For traditional library setting: reference librarian can

share their bookmarks easily with patrons

Blogs, Wikis

Blog (weblog): example – Laika‘s MedLiblog Wiki (What I Know Is)

(backronym - The word wiki, halved from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" meaning "quick „)

– Collaborative resource creation– Takes advantage of the “hive“ of people on the web all with

specific knowledge– Medpedia– Fun example: twictionary

Blogger, Wordpress, etc. (tools for creating blogs) Pbwiki.com, wetpaint.com, etc. (tools for creating wikis)

http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/

http://scienceroll.com/

Insert more recent shot!!!

http://www.medpedia.com/

http://ccreview.wikispaces.com/

http://mavergames.org

Why use blogs?

Among many reasons... Good summary of interesting articles in a particular field Can receive updates via RSS (‚push‘) Starting a blog allows you to network with other bloggers

and “guest post“ on other blogs Can serve as a homepage for your research work And many other reasons...

Did you know? If your Cochrane Group uses the central system for it‘s website, blogging is an option? Ask me for details!

Why use wikis?

Among many reasons... Very powerful knowledge gathering tool Allows for collaborative work environments Can use them for “crowd sourcing“ your work

or for brainstorming ideas Utilizing the “hive mind“ to gather ideas, facts

Subscription services: RSS

You can obtain the following and much more via an RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication)

– Podcasts– Saved searches– News feeds– Updates to sites, collections of bookmarks, flickr

photos, etc. – could be anything!

Google Reader, Yahoo, Bloglines, etc.

cochrane.org/podcasts

cochrane.org/rss-feeds

My iGoogle page

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/

bmj.com/rss

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments

http://www.webicina.com/rss_feeds/

http://www.webicina.com/rss_feeds/

Typical Web 2.0 scenario

I visit Laikas MedLiblog:

Where I find this post:

Typical Web 2.0 scenario

I visit the site:

I subscribe to the feed:

Typical Web 2.0 scenario

I decide to tweet it:

I get this response via Twitter:

Typical Web 2.0 scenario

So, I visit the Facebook group and join. Then, I post the following to the group page:

And so on...

Further reading

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Questions?

Hvala!

Chris MavergamesWeb Operations Manager/Information Architect

The Cochrane Collaboration

Email: mavergames@cochrane.de

Twitter: mavergames

Blog: mavergames.net