A centre of expertise in digital information management Engaging Virtual Communities: Web 2.0 Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath Bath Email [email protected]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
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A centre of expertise in digital information management
www.ukoln.ac.uk
Engaging Virtual Communities: Web 2.0Brian Kelly, UKOLN,
About This SessionThis 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
About This SessionThis 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
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About Me
Brian Kelly:• UK Web Focus: a national Web advisory
post• Based at UKOLN, a national centre of
expertise in digital information management• Located at the University of Bath• Funded by MLA and JISC • Involved in Web since Jan 1993• Currently advising on best practices for
Web 2.0
Introduction
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About You
How many of you have heard of Web 2.0?
How many of you have read content in a blog or wiki?
How many of you publish a blog or have updated content in a wiki?
How many have used MSN Messenger, Skype, …?
What do you hope to gain from this session?
Introduction
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Contents
Web 2.0 – What Is It? (Talking …)• Blogs Wikis• RSS Mashups• Microformats Comms
tools• Social networks …
Deployment Strategies (… doing)• User focus• Information literacy; staff development• Risk assessment• Safe experimentation
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Let’s Do It Now!Let’s not just talk about Web 2.0 – let’s use it now (assuming WiFi network available!):Let’s Talk
• Go to http://www.gabbly.com/ and in box enter www.cilip.org.uk/
Let’s Share Resources• Go to <http://del.icio.us/lisbk/
cilip-cdg-2007-04> to access resources
DiscussionLecture 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
DiscussionLecture 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
Blogs aren’t just one-way publishing, but an implementation of Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of a collaborative WebBlogs 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
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Web
2.0 What Are They Saying About Us?
Blogs are very interconnected with each other (bloggers discuss other’s blog postings).This can help to provide feedback; measure impact; engage in discussions; etc.You can also monitor what they are saying about your Web site.
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
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
Criticism: this may be comment spam. This may be true for popular home pages, but not for many other pages
Criticism: this may be comment spam. This may be true for popular home pages, but not for many other pages
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Finding Resources
Technorati can help find blog articles, RSS feeds, etc.
Technorati search for “SHERPA JISC" finds:
• 11 blog posting postings, most recent 196 day ago (nothing new since then?)
Web
2.0
RSSSyndication
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 agoNote you can receive RSS alerts of new search results
http://www.technorati.com/search/sherpa+jisc
http://www.technorati.com/search/sherpa+jisc
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Social Networking Software (1)
But what if:
• Students aren’t interested in university-provided blogging services?
• Students use commercial social networking services such as Facebook?
Web
2.0
Should we:
• Make use of these environments (save money by not reinventing wheels)
• Inform students on integration of our information?
• Ignore?Note museums (Walker Art Center) are experimenting with Facebook
Note museums (Walker Art Center) are experimenting with Facebook
18 Feb 2007
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Social Networking Software (2)
What are they saying about your institution in social networking services, on blogs, …?
Do you (and your departments) provide business intelligence services to find out what your users are saying about you?
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia – a community-developed encyclopedia … and also a well-linked Web site, which boosts Google rankings Note created by Owen Massey in June 2004
More sophisticated mapping applications are being developed, such as Radius 5 at Northumbria Univ.
OpennessMashup
APIs
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Web
2.0 Location Metadata
Embedded location metadata can now by exploited by 3rd party tools
OpennessMashup
Open sourceAPIs
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?)
This service is based on the following HTML content:<meta name="geo.position" content="50.824843, -0.139274" />
The Greasemap script processes this data as shown
This service is based on the following HTML content:<meta name="geo.position" content="50.824843, -0.139274" />
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Takeup Of New TechnologiesThe Gartner curve
Developers
Rising expectations
Trough of despair
Service plateau
Enterprise softwareLarge budgets…
ChasmFailure to go beyond developers & early adopters (cf Gopher)Need for:
• Advocacy• Listening to users• Addressing concerns• Deployment strategies• …
Let’s now look at approaches for avoiding the chasm
Let’s now look at approaches for avoiding the chasm
Early adopters
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Beware The IT Fundamentalists
We need to avoid simplistic solutions to the complexities:• Open Standards Fundamentalist: we just need XML• Open Source Fundamentalist: we just need Linux• Vendor Fundamentalist: we must use next version of
our enterprise system (and you must fit in with this)• Accessibility Fundamentalist: we must do WAI
WCAG• User Fundamentalist: must do whatever users want• Legal Fundamentalist: it breaches copyright, …• Ownership Fundamentalist: must own everything we
use• Perfectionist: It doesn't do everything, so we'll do
nothing• Simplistic Developer: I've developed a perfect solution
– I don't care if it doesn't run in the real world• Web 2.0: It’s new; its cool!
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The Librarian FundamentalistsLibrarians:
• Think they know better than the user e.g. they don't like people using Google Scholar; they should use Web of Knowledge (who cares that users find it easier to use Google Scholar & finds references they need that way?)
• Think that users should be forced to learn Boolean searching & other formal search techniques because this is good for them (despite Sheffield's study).
• Don't want the users to search for themselves (cf folksonomies) because they won't get it right.
• They still want to classify the entire Web - despite the fact that users don't use their lists of Web links.
• Want services to be perfect before they release them to users. They are uneasy with the concept of 'forever beta' (they don't believe that users have the ability to figure things out themselves and work around the bugs).
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Deployment Strategies
Interested in using Web 2.0 in your organisation?Worried about corporate inertia, power struggles, etc?There’s a need for a deployment strategy:
• Addressing business needs• Low-hanging fruits• Encouraging the enthusiasts• Gain experience of the browser tools – and see
what you’re missing!• Staff training & development• Address areas you feel comfortable with• Risk management strategy• …
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IWMW 2006 & Risk Management IWMW 2006 has taken a risk management approach to its evaluation of Web 2.0 technologies:
• Agreements: e.g. in the case of the Chatbot.• Use of well-established services: Google &
del.icio.us are well-established and have financial security.
• Notification: warnings that services could be lost. • Engagement: with the user community: users actively
engage in the evaluation of the services. • Provision of alternative services: multiple OMPL
tools. • Use in non-mission critical areas: not for bookings! • Long term experiences of services: usage stats• Availability of alternative sources of data: e.g.
standard Web server log files.• Data export and aggregation: RSS feeds,
aggregated in Suprglu, OPML viewers, etc.
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All these FireFox extensions are available for free!
Tools For Your Staff
A simple approach for your organisation staff: provide Firefox to give a rich client environment:• RSS Panel: immediate
display and access to RSS feeds on pages
• Blogger Web Comments: immediate access to blog comments on pages
• Various bookmarklets: such as Webmaster tools
• Various sidebars: such as the Meebo chat tool
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Conclusions
To conclude:• Web 2.0 is here and many people are using
it• Information professionals need to
understand Web 2.0 to support their professional activities
• Information professionals can benefits from the social networking aspects of Web 2.0
• Just do it!
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