Blog, wiki, podcasting, RSS feed, and collaborative tagging.

This tool enables person-to-person communication on a variety of topics. Most are written by individuals who share information, ideas, experiences, and recommendations.

The nickname for a group of collections related to the event formally called the American Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919.

Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr.

These forums focus on a particular topic or niche and allow for a high level of participation and a rich user experience. The next generation of user-created content.

Records of the soldiers experiences and weakened moral in personal diaries, photographs, and recollections.

Increased promotion for department and resources, meets needs of patrons, potential increase in number/types of users, and it easy easy to implement.

These sites encourage participation by enabling sharing, creating favorites, collecting, tagging, and organizing.

The Bentley Historical Library

Time, lack of consistency, control of content, and technical expertise and it creates sophisticated metadata.

This medium allows individuals to download, upload, share, record, and edit audio clips and/or radio-type shows.

Finding Aids Next Generation Research Group

Promotions in collections.

Enabling users to share and reuse links to sites and pages.

Bookmarks, visitor comments, link paths, browsing, searching, and user profile options.