Web 2.0 Workshop 2-11-09
Amanda French, instructor

Microblogging: Using Twitter

Students' Twitter usernames

  1. Go to Twitter's Downloads page and get a Twitter application; I recommend twhirl -- make sure to save it somewhere you'll find it, such as on your desktop, and then install it.
  2. Go to the Twitter website and follow me, plus these people:
    1. Dan Cohen
    2. Tom Scheinfeldt
    3. Jeremy Boggs
    4. Archives Next (Kate T.)
    5. Roy Tennant
    6. Jason Kucsma
    7. Josh Greenberg
    8. NY METRO
    9. Brooklyn Museum
    10. Library of Congress
    11. Smithsonian
    12. Jeffrey McClurken
    13. Brett Bobley
    14. Suzanne Fischer
    15. "Carolina Magpie"
    16. Rick Prelinger
    17. Omeka
    18. Zotero
    19. Clay Shirky
    20. Lisa Spiro
    21. CNN Breaking News
    22. Tech Crunch
    23. Rafe Needleman
    24. Tech Soup
    25. Historical Tweet

RSS: Using Google Reader

Subscribe to these and other blogs via the "subscribe" link or icon on the blog (ex: or or ), by using the RSS icon in the URL address bar of the Firefox browser, or by the search feature in your RSS reader.

  1. Archives Next
  2. Dan Cohen's blog
  3. Museum Two

To find more blogs to subscribe to, you can use Technorati, which is a search engine specifically for blogs. Remember that other frequently updated websites also often allow you to subscribe with RSS: examples are Craigslist (classified ads), del.icio.us (website bookmarks), and Wikipedia (changes to articles).

Wikipedia

How to Edit Wikipedia (pdf)

One of the most important thing that libraries, archives, and museums can do for themselves and their patrons is to link to their online materials from Wikipedia. Editing the content of an article can of course help improve the accuracy of the information about a historical topic, but it might be even more important to provide good references at the end of the article. Links in the "References" section of Wikipedia to primary sources, finding aids, and online exhibits can greatly increase the use of these authoritative materials. See the articles below for more on this topic.

de.licio.us

Students' del.icio.us usernames:

Use the tag "nyuhistory" for bookmarks, and that way we'll always be able to find each others' bookmarks even without "friending" each other on del.icio.us. This tag can also be used on other sites that allow tagging, such as Twitter and Flickr.

My 5 most recent "digital history" bookmarks on del.icio.us

Flickr Commons

Explore the tags that users have added; find an item and add a tag.