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UCISA CISG Talk on “What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?”
About My Talk at the UCISA CISG Conference On Friday 20 November I’m giving a talk on “What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?” at the UCISA CISG 2009 Conference. I’ve written my slides and uploaded them to Slideshare (...
“Web 2.0 Will Change Everything!” But How?
Back in May I wrote a blog post entitled “Not Your Father’s IT Innovation!“. My post referred to Andy Powell’s thoughts on “The role of universities in a Web 2.0 world?” in which he suggested that “if Web 2.0 cha...
Paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” Published in Program
A paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” has recently been published in the Program journal (Program Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009, 43 (3), pp. 311-327). This paper is accessi...
Are University Web Teams Too Large?
Mike Richwalski was very busy at IWMW 2009 (and beyond). Mike, Assistant Director of Public Affairs at Allegheny College, submitted a proposal to run a workshop session on “Using Amazon Web Services (AWS)” which we were happy to accept....
A World Where No-One Visits Our Web Sites
In a blog post entitled Pushing MRD out from under the geek rock Mike Ellis provides access to the slides he used in a session on “Digging into data: text and data mining” at the recent JISC Digital Content Conference. Mike’s blog ...
Thoughts About Dopplr and the Environment
I’ve been using Dopplr for a couple of years now, and have used it to keep a record of my substantial work trips over the last three years. Wikipedia describes the service as “a free social networking service, launched in 2007 that allow...
Wolfram|Alpha’s Terms and Conditions
Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha is described in Wikipedia as “an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data“. Comparing Web Sites When I discovered that Wolfram|Alpha could...
“Is It Really A Good Time To Be Asking For More IT Money?”
Michael Cross in the Technology Guardian asked back in April “Is It Really A Good Time To Be Asking For More IT Money?” Michael poked fun at the notion that “as the chancellor announces the largest peacetime deficit in history, the ...
Launch of ‘The Edgeless University’: a new Demos report
A report entitled “The Edgeless University: why Higher Education Must Embrace Technology” was launched earlier today. As described on the JISC Web site: The Edgeless University argues that technology in higher education is not just about ...
Which Will Last Longer: Hero.ac.uk or Facebook?
A Hero For Our Sector One of the real strengths of the UK higher education sector is the way in which we can work together as a sector, meaning that the whole is geater than the sum of the individual parts. This is undoubtedly true of JISC (which is ...
There Is No Institutional Blueprint for Web 2.0 – So Let’s Develop One
Last week I gave a talk on “The ‘Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World’ Report: Implications For IT Service Departments” to staff in BUCS (the Bath University Computer Services Department. The following day, as she described in ...
Google Wave, HTML 5 and Browser Policies
Over the past few days the Twitterverse seems tobe full with of discussions regarding Google’s announcement of Wave. The Techcrunch article on “Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web” is worth re...
The Social Web and the Belbin Model
I have previously suggested that although I feel that the Social Web has much to offer that doesn’t mean that I would want everyone to have a blog, to Twitter, to record talks and make them freely available on video sharing services. Rather I f...
How Do New Ideas Start? How Do New Contacts Develop?
The Question How do you ideas start? How can a informal conversation lead to an exploration of new ideas? How do such conversations start? And how does one participate in such conversations, especially with new people? These were a series of question...
Not Your Father’s IT Innovation!
Yesterday a leader column in The Guardian suggested that the current global economic crisis is “Not your father’s recession“. Rather than being simply the latest downturn in a economic cycle which has been with us since 1945 the l...
The Launch of the CLEX09 Report
Yesterday morning I wrote a blog post about the report on “Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World” published by the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (CLEX). In the afternoon I went to the Barbican Centre London in ...
“Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World” Report Published
The CLEX Final Report The final report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience (CLEX) entitled” Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World” has just been published. The report built on work which began last year include...
How Is HE Embracing Web 2.0? How Is Web 2.0 Changing HE?
On Thursday I received a message followed by a subsequent email asking me to contact a journalist at the Guardian newspaper who was writing an article about institutional use of Web 2.0 in higher education. In her email Anthea Lipsett told me that sh...
Lessons Learnt from the Amplification of the CILIP2 Event
Reasons for This Post At last week’s CILIP2 Open Session both Phil Bradley and myself argued that there was a need for the Library community to actively engage with Web 2.0 tools and even be prepared to make mistakes. Without making mistakes, i...
CILIP: More Popular Than Swine Flu!
Background When Bob McKee, CEO of CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) wrote his blog post on “All of a Twitter” we can safely predict that he wouldn”t have expect to CILIP to be featured as one of ...
What Can Web-Based Presentation Tools Offer?
Back at IWMW 2007 Helen Sargan ran a workshop session entitled “Just say No to Powerpoint: Web Alternatives for Slides and Presentations“. As someone who has used PowerPoint extensively since I’ve been at UKOLN and also have an inte...
Sharing the Rehearsal of my Talk at the CILIP 2 Council Meeting
As I described a couple of day’s ago in a blog post on CILIP2.0 - Open Session on CILIP’s use of Web 2.0 myself and Phil Bradley will be giving brief talks about how we feel CILIP should respond to the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0...
CILIP2.0 - Open Session on CILIP’s use of Web 2.0
Phil Bradley and myself have been invited to take part in an open session on CILIP’s use of Web 2.0 (CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is “the leading professional body for librarians, information spe...
Slideshare? I’m Now Flirting With Slideboom!
You know what it’s like. You’ve been together for some time. And you get on well together. And then something goes wrong. So you start looking for something new. And you start to get excited about the new things on offer. And perhaps you ...
Have Slideshare Avoided Their Ratner Moment?
Background Gerald Ratner was responsible for one of the most famous gaffes in corporate history when “he joked that one of his firm’s products was “total crap”, and boasted that some of its ear rings were “cheaper than a...
“You’re a Slideshare Rockstar!” - Not!
The April 1 Joke Yesterday (1 st April 2009) I received a couple of email messages from Slideshare which stated that some of the slides which I have uploaded to the Slideshare repository have “been getting a LOT of views in the last 24 hours...
Blessed Are The Software Developers
I have to admit that at one point I had somewhat of a downer on software developers. I felt that there was a tendency for many in the development community to be driven by ideology rather than than supporting user-needs. I encountered this amongst ...
From ‘Archivus Coelacanth’ to ‘Archivus Sapiens’
I’m pleased to report that a proposal for a talk on “A Risks and Opportunities Framework For Archives 2.0” has been accepted for the “Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues between Users and Archivists” conference which will b...
“Britain Faces Worst Year Since 1930s”
“Britain Faces Worst Year Since 1930s, warns IMF” screams an article on the front page of today’s Guardian. It seems that that the International Monetary Fund has warned Britain that it will be at the bottom of the league table of...
Do You Want The Good News Or The Bad News About Jaiku?
A service announces that the software is to be made available under an open source licence. That’s good news, isn’t it? A company announces that one of its is to be withdrawn. That’s bad news, isn’t it? But what if a service m...
