Engaging Virtual Communities: Web 2.0

Engaging Virtual Communities: Web 2.0 Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath Bath Email [email_address] UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/cilip-cdg-2007-04/ About This Session This session will provide an introduction to Wikis, showing how Wikipedia can be used to promote your college and, having learnt about Wiki concepts, how Wikis can be used in e-learning This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources bookmarked using ‘ cilip-cdg-2007-04 ' tag

About Me ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Introduction

About You ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Introduction

Contents ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Let’s Do It Now! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Discussion Lecture theatres being WiFied; pervasive networking being deployed  students with laptops will expect to use them  we need to gain experiences to establish best practices & manage possible problems http://www.gabbly.com/www.cilip.org.uk/ 2 Mar 2007

Web 2.0 ,[object Object],[object Object],Web2MemeMap, Tim O’Reilly, 2005 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0

Blogs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 Openness Syndication Collaboration Key Characteristics http://annewelsh.wordpress.com/ http://communities.cilip.org.uk/ blogs/marks/

Blogs & Marketing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/ press-releases/… Who needs to know about and use Web 2.0 apps from this example: PR & marketing; researchers; … ,[object Object],http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?... ,[object Object],http://georgemandler.com/2007/02/17/chocolate-makes-you-smarter-at-least-temporarily/

Blogs - Reading ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 Bloglines – a Web-based blog reader. You are informed of changes since you last viewed the page. http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs Openness Syndication Collaboration BlogBridge – a desktop blog reader. You are informed of changes since you last viewed the page.

Blogs – Engaging With Users ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ 2007/01/25/experiments-with-meebo/ Blogs aren’t just one-way publishing, but an implementation of Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of a collaborative Web See (and discuss) UK Web Focus blog post 25 Jan 2007 Blended blogging

What Are They Saying About Us? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 Find out what bloggers have been saying about your blog or your Web site – possibly minutes after they’ve said it. You can then take the praise – or issue a rebuttal in a timely fashion http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ Criticism : this may be comment spam. This may be true for popular home pages, but not for many other pages

Finding Resources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 RSS Syndication What do users want: the home page and what people are saying today. Google & Technorati are valuable tools, so organisations should ensure that their Web site can be found in both. A search for “ JISC ” finds a posting from 6 hours ago Note you can receive RSS alerts of new search results http://www.technorati.com/ search/sherpa+jisc

Social Networking Software (1) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Note museums (Walker Art Center) are experimenting with Facebook 18 Feb 2007

Social Networking Software (2) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://kera.name/articles/2007/01/ 404-university-of-nottingham-not-found/ http://kera.name/articles/2006/12/uni-tech-team-storms-student-underground/ BUCS set up a feedback page in Facebook - without being aware of this page!

Wikis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 Writely – Web-based word processor or Wiki? Does it matter, it does the job http://www.writely.com/ Openness Syndication Collaboration http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/community/index/ IWMW2006_Discussion_Group_Notes_for_Group_A ,[object Object],Remember when notes were trapped in the non-interoperable world of flip charts & paper. This need no longer be the case. ,[object Object],http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/community/index/ IWMW2006_Information_About_Social_Aspects

Wikipedia ,[object Object],http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CILIP ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Sharing - Flickr ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/search/ ?w=all&q=iwmw2006&m=text Openness Network effect Syndication Collaboration http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ iwmw2006/interesting/?page=6

Sharing – del.icio.us ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 Openness Network effect Syndication Collaboration Note also that the bookmarks can be embedded (‘mashed-up’) elsewhere http://del.icio.us/lisbk/cilip-cdg-2007-04

Sharing – Slides ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/

Google Maps Mashups ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Web 2.0 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/ workshops/webmaster-2006/maps/ Openness Mashup APIs http://northumbria.ac.uk/browse/radius5/ More sophisticated mapping applications are being developed, such as Radius 5 at Northumbria Univ.

Location Metadata ,[object Object],Web 2.0 Openness Mashup Open source APIs Why don't all our organisation provide location data in this way? Note issues about quality of data & responsibilities for providing the data (e.g. is this the right address?) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/ events/conferences/cilip-cdg-2007-04/

Takeup Of New Technologies ,[object Object],Developers Rising expectations Trough of despair Service plateau Enterprise software Large budgets … Early adopters ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Let’s now look at approaches for avoiding the chasm

Beware The IT Fundamentalists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],IT Services Barrier

The Librarian Fundamentalists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Library Barrier

Deployment Strategies ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Deployment Challenges

IWMW 2006 & Risk Management ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Deployment Strategy

Tools For Your Staff ,[object Object],All these FireFox extensions are available for free! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Conclusions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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