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By Sarah Currier, Project Consultant, 28 Jan. 09
SHEEN Web 2.0 Resource Sharing Project Meeting
Web 2.0 Tools: Handout
 The categories listed below are highly interconnected- in fact most of the toolslisted within each category include features that could be assigned to most of the other categories. They are listed according to their primary function.
COMMUNITY 
Community / Group Web Spaces
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 Yahoo Groups (one of the original such sites).
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Google Groups (allows discussion, resource sharing, link sharing,collaboration on Group website; works with other Google apps).
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Ning (very simple site that allows discussion, individual blogs, sharing of limited resource types).
Social Networking Sites
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Facebook (university students and adult professionals; social/family withsome growth in informal professional networks).
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MySpace (young adults and teenagers; heavily aimed at musiciansoriginally, allow open sharing of music tracks).
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Bebo (children and teenagers; as such I don’t know much about it).
Professional Networking Sites
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LinkedIn (allows CV, links and groups on professional interests).
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UNYK (keeps contact lists and helps you stay in touch with contacts).
RESOURCE SHARING
Social Bookmarking Sites
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Delicious (store your bookmarks on a web space; share them withinnetwork/groups/the whole web; tag them and search by tag; reviewresources).
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... and many more.
Social Citation Sites
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Connotea (like Delicious but with more of a scholarly bent; bookmark andtag scientific (and increasingly, other academic) sites; pulls out citationdata for referencing and reading lists).
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LibraryThing (catalogue and tag all of your books; use openly availablecataloguing data; tag, review and rate; share amongst groups/whole web).
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... and others.
Sharing Files
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Resource specific sharing sites (Flickr and others for images; YouTube forvideos; SlideShare for presentations; most allow sharing within networksand groups, rating/comments/discussion; tagging).
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Sites for sharing any filetype (Scribd; fliiby, others.. most allow sharingwithin networks and groups, rating/comments/discussion; tagging).
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Learning materials repositories (e.g. Jorum, EdShare, ).© Higher Education Academy, 2009.
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