PowerPoint Slides of Presentation: Repackage! Repurpose! Aggregate!: Leveraging Free Content to Create Free Web Services of Your Own Given at the 2011 Oregon Library Association Annual Conference

Repackage! Repurpose! Aggregate!--Leveraging Free Content to Create Free Web Services of Your Own
 
Attendees will learn how the free online Web Services ResearchRaven and ScanGrants were constructed using a modest amount of outsourced Web design help and free Web 2.0 tools (e.g., Twitter, FeedBurner, various social bookmarking services) and what it takes to keep such services running vis-à-vis staff time for data entry, quality control and marketing.
 
Attendees will learn about how to leverage the massive amounts of free content put out by such entities as foundations, professional societies, disease advocacy groups, conference organizers, academia (and in coming years more and more data disgorgement by the federal government) in order to create free library services that can be shared with patrons, other libraries and with the broader world.
 
Ready to make the most of the coming data deluge as the federal and state governments prepare to release data from across the scientific and public policy spectrum? Make your library a trendsetter in the development of free online services and see them adopted by libraries worldwide. Learn from the developer of ScanGrants and ResearchRaven how you can become your own startup and take back for libraries some of the space that Silicon Valley has captured in recent years. Let’s geek together and learn how easy it is to make cool services that serve the public and advance learning, scholarship and science.

Audience members will be encouraged to describe Web services of their own that they have developed and to discuss frankly what took off and has flourished and what flopped immediately or withered away over time for lack of staff buy-in or lack of interest by patrons. Attendees will be encouraged to envision the perfect free Web service and to suggest groups (amateur genealogists, young parents, newly diagnosed diabetics) that they could target as users of their proposed service.