Wikis, podcasts, and blogs, Oh my! Web tools for your library

Streaming video - 2014

This program highlights blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networking websites, and video sharing websites. It also shows how libraries across the country are using these technologies to reach out to new customers and improve their services. Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Services for Columbus Metropolitan Library, is interviewed in the program and she discusses why libraries need to become familiar with and use these new technologies. The program also shows a library that is using MySpace to reach out to teens, ways to use wikis to improve your staffs productivity, how to create an effective podcast, and many other uses of Web 2.0 technologies.