As you know content is king , it’s not enough for libraries to just share information, they must be a part of the creation of new information, too. it is more important to store user generated content on your Library . Today , library is not only to share some good knowledge to world but it also helpful to library user also. successful library always user-friendly .
there 13+ web Tools to reduce user-generated content work load .
1.del.icio.us: Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet. it help you organize your all useful resource, bookmark it and share with world to help them to achieve what they want.
2.Blogger: blogger is a tiny company started in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. there was 3 friend from San Francisco, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. Day by day blogger get popularity from there user , In 2002 Google Buys the blogger.com from Pyra labs .Today blogger is most famous blogging platform in a world.Create a blog for your library to encourage comments and interactive discussion with your library patrons.
3.PBWiki: PB wiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis. its hosted more then 600,000 wikis and millions of user per month. World leading companies like FedEx, DePaul University ,etc.. choose PBWiki.com for collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries with employees, customers, partners, and vendors.
4.Notecentric: Notecentric is free web based Note taking application . it help your library user to share there books , collections on Notecentric to organized and readily available online. your all information , books are available in one place ,so you don't have to worry about synchronizing them.
5.Ning :Ning help you create your own social network and interact with your Library user and your fans. raise the awareness about your library and improve your Library visibility on web. Share your thought and ideas with your friend .
6.Gotvoice : Gotvoice help you to convert your all voice mail into text and digital audio files and send to your phone or computer as text and audio. it very helpful to people, who don’t have time to dial in to hear all of the messages.
7. connotea : Connotea is free web based online reference management site . With connotea, you can save and organise links to your references and easily share with your library user. your library user access the references from any computer. user-friendly interface and easy to navigate the library.
8.Secondlife : Secondlife is free web based User created , 3D virtual community. One of the largest User created 3D virtual world imagined and created by its Residents . Set up your own virtual classes , discussion with Secondlife for your library user, where you can conduct the virtual classes with library user.
9.Myspace : Create your own Myspace library profile to Contribute your videos, photos ,and some important links resources with your library user .
10.Flickr : Use Flickr to save , organize and share your library photos and videos and stay in touch with your library user.
11. Facebook : Facebook helps you connect and share with the your library user in your life.
12.Ann Arbor District Library (MI) Uses the open source Drupal content management system with incorporates blogging, tagging, user comments, and RSS feeds. Its location page is tied into Google Maps.
13. Denver Public Library (CO)
Has RSS feeds for library news and local events, podcasts, teen MySpace Account.
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