Course Name:  Web 2.0 Tools to promote you and your information service

Venue: South Training Room, Berkeley Library, Trinity College Dublin.

Date: Wednesday 25th November, 2009

Time: 9.30 - 4.30 (Lunch 12.00 - 1.00)

Cost: This course is offered at a significantly reduced rate due to the current economic climate:
HSLG/LAI Members: €100, Non-Members: €150, Unemployed/Students: €80.

Trainer: Louise Farragher

Booking Form: Download here

Are you having problems hooking your Twitter to your Facebook? Plugging your blog feed into your reader? Then this course is for you!
 
Course Content:
 
What is Web 2.0?
 
Blogs

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?
    * Why should I use them?

 
RSS Feeds

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?
    * practical

 
Social Bookmarking and Tagging

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?
    * practical

 
Social Networking

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?

 
Twitter

    * What is it?
    * How can I use it?
    * practical

 
Netvibes, iGoogle & Friendfeed

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?
    * practical

 
Mobile Web2.0

    * What are they?
    * How can I use them?

 
Using Social Software to promote you /your library

    * Why is it important?
    * Who else is using it?
    * Tips on how to use Web 2.0
    * Possible challenges to using Web 2.0

 
What will you need?

    * All you need is access to your email (Gmail, yahoo, hotmail, eircom.net or other email provider). If you do not have access to your email, you will be UNABLE to complete some of the practical exercises.

 
At the end of the course, you should be able to:

    * Create a blog
    * recognize and read RSS feeds
    * recognize a variety of feed readers
    * use social bookmarking and networking tools
    * Set up a Twitter account and start following other information professionals
    * Pool your Web 2.0 tools into a single location
    * Consider the use of some mobile applications for your library

 
Louise Farragher works as in Information Specialist in the Health Research Board. Using email and the Internet since the early 1990s, Louise has been involved in developing websites for the National Documentation Centre on Drug Use, LAI, LAI Library Ireland Week, HSLG and EAHIL 2009. She is currently on Facebook
Twitter, Netvibes, Delicious, You Tube, Flickr, iGoogle, friendfeed, Linked In and LastFM, and is desperately awaiting an invitation to Google Wave!