Slides (with embedded videos) from a presentation I gave for librarians of the UNC Library, organized by the Staff Development Committee, on December 4th, 2009. I covered Dropbox, Twitter, and Google Wave, and in the process talked about broader trends such as cloud computing and social networking, and what they (might) mean for libraries. A lot of what I actually said is left out here, so until I create an audio track (if I ever do), please contact me if you have questions or are curious.

1. Library LensonNew Technologies

2. About me...

4. What’s the Big Deal

6. Dropbox Sync Files b/w Computers Offsite Backup & Recovery 2GB Free

8. Infrastructure on the Internet: instead of local servers, pay (IBM, Amazon) to host online

10. & The Cloud

12. Using Twitter Personal: family, friends asking questions sharing information, links, not unlike Facebook… @= a Twitter user e.g. @adrogersam

13. Using Twitter Professional following peers, leaders in the field works as a news filter RT = “re-tweet,” forwarding someone else’s tweet

14. Social Networking Online communities E.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning Huge effects on Interaction with the web & each other How we get information

15. Social Networking

16. Library Use? Outreach & Marketing Pushing out content, esp. of Digital Collections Connecting with Community Librarian Use keeping up with news / tech. following peers

17. andSocial Networks

18. Google Wave

20. What is Wave? Google reinventing email! Emails  “waves” A wave is “equal parts conversation and document” Preserves conversation process Google on Wave

22. Experimental, unstable

23. Steep learning curve

24. But exciting!

25. Built with media-rich, small-group collaboration in mind

27. Brave thinking

28. Google’s clout

29. “Google wave is the most exciting and interesting Web application that’s ever been created, ever.” -- Gina Trapani, Lifehacker

30. Library Use? What if…? Richer reference interactions Powerful (when stable) co-browsing system Flexible Pathfinders, Course Pages Collaboration / Workflows for Librarians

31. & What if?

32. Thanks! Questions, Comments, collaborations… Adam Rogers adamrogers@unc.edu