Week 13 Reading Notes

Creating the Academic Library Folksonomy by Xan Arch
- Basically, tags are a way to organize copious amounts of web based content.
- You can organize information through social media tagging sites and have access to that information anytime you have access to the internet.
-Very personalized; make your own vocabulary, understand exactly what you're writing and saying.
- In the library this can be helpful because it brings patrons/customers into the conversation. Patrons have a say in what is happening and how information is organized.
- Instantly sharable.
- Of course, questions arise about control and quality.

Chapter 2. What Makes Social Media Tick: Seven Secrets of Social Media by John Blossom
- At this point, it seems sort of silly to constantly redefine social media, although I understand that it is broader than just social networking and more specific than "user-generated content"
- The Secrets of Social Media: 1: people just want to decide their level of influence. Passive consumers? Contributors?
- Less about crazy new technologies, although that does matter, and more about offering opportunties for influence. Either other people to influence, or to be influenced by others.
- Law of the "campfire". Deciding who is going to enforce the rules or values.
-  social media is valuable because of influence. It's one's best friend or worst enemy.
-  The goal of social media is "mass contextualization" rather than mass production. Make the information you're sharing the most important to the most people through context.
-  Social media is all about connecting people and information and about providing opportunities for content creation.

Using a Wiki to Manage a Library Instruction Program: Sharing Knowledge to Better Serve Patrons by Charles Allan.
- Wiki's are a free and easy way to facilitate the process of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Lots of free sits.
- Wiki is synonymous with Wikipedia. I LOVE the wiki-media suite and the great offerings from Creative Commons.
- I've used a wiki extensively in my internship and found that some people like it, a few people use it, and most people don' tlike it. From the administrative side, it's really easy to post content and provide options for people to contribute, but much harder to get people to buy in.
- It seems that now we're moving away from wiki's in the direction of other, just as collaborative workspaces, like PinTerest.

How a RagTag Band Created Wikipedia
- "Information wants to be free!"
- It's an amazing product and an even better process.
- I wish there was a way that Wikipedia could be more well respected for some of it's content. As long as you check your sources, it's ll good!
- The built in tools for accountability are admirable. Sometimes with other collaborative tools I worry because there isn't a concrete way to mark what is your contribution and what is from someone else. At some point ownership becomes less important, but it's still important to the process to know who is adding what!