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November 2007
November 01, 2007
The First Year Of The UK Web Focus Blog
November 01, 2007
A Look Back The UK Web Focus blog was set up on 1st November 2006. After its first year in operation I feel it would be appropriate to document some of the statistics, especially as I have previously promised to use this blog to document such quantitative data, for use by others. Usage The blog’s Web site saw a steady growth ...
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November 02, 2007
Guest Blog Post: The ILI 2007 Blog Masterclass
November 02, 2007
The Month’s Guest Blog Post The guest blog spot for November provides an opportunity to hear from participants at an event I have participated at recently. We start with Pernille Helhome’s reflections on the half day Blogging Masterclass facilitated by myself and Kara Jones. About Me I work at a large company within the medical device industry in ...
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November 03, 2007
Remember PeopleAggregator?
November 03, 2007
The flurry of posts about OpenSocial (from Michael Nolan, Andy Powell, Tony Hirst, Scott Wilson and George Roberts amongst those whose blogs I regularly read) reminded me about PeopleAggregator, the open social networking service I subscribed to a few months ago. PeopleAggregator was developed by Marc Cantor, who set up the company which developed Macromedia Flash ...
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November 04, 2007
Guest Blog Post: Blogging Masterclass at ILI 2007: A Perspective
November 04, 2007
In the second guest blog post of the month Eddie Byrne gives his thoughts on the Blog Masterclass facilitated recently by myself and Kara Jones. Eddie Byrne is Senior Librarian with Dublin City Public Libraries with responsibility for Web Services. A graduate of University College Dublin School of Library and Information Studies, he has worked for ...
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November 05, 2007
OCLC report on ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World’
November 05, 2007
I recently received a copy of the OCLC report on Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World“. This is a report which I would recommend to everyone with an interest in the Web 2.0 world, in particular those who welcome evidence of the views of users of social networking services and discussions of the ...
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November 06, 2007
Why We Should All Use Externally-Hosted Web Services
November 06, 2007
There may be an argument that in higher education we have no need to make use of externally hosted Web services, such as blogs, wikis, photographic sharing sites, etc. as institutions will typically have IT services departments with expertise in installing and supporting enterprise systems. And we also have a wide range of JISC services ...
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November 08, 2007
Facebook Fears - It’s Nothing New
November 08, 2007
Alison Wildish has recently written a post on “Fear of Facebook?” in which she comments on a recent article in The Independent entitled “Networking sites: Professors - keep out“. Alison says that The article highlighted a number of perceived issues with University staff getting involved in social networks. However I tend to disagree with the majority ...
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November 09, 2007
Hey, Hey, We’re … In The Charts Again!
November 09, 2007
The Background I was asked recently to advise a colleague at the University of Bath on how to raise the Google ranking of some Web pages. “Should I go to an SEO company?” was the question I was asked. A similar question was asked recently on the JISCMail website-info mgt list: “Can anyone recommend a training ...
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UK Universities On Facebook
November 09, 2007
Via a blog post on Michael Stephen’s Tame The Web blog I discovered that organisations can now have a presence in Facebook, which had previously been restricted to individuals. So which have been the first UK Universities to stake their claim in Facebook? A Facebook search for organisations containing the word ‘university’ revealed (on Friday 9 ...
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November 12, 2007
Briefing Document on Facebook: Opportunities and Challenges
November 12, 2007
UKOLN is running a one-day workshop on “Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs And Social Networks” which will be held in Birmingham on 26th November 2007. The event is now fully subscribed. However we will be making the various materials for the event freely available to those who could not attend. A series of briefing documents will ...
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November 13, 2007
The Power Of Information Report Also Wants To Avoid Duplication Of Services
November 13, 2007
A response on his blog by Matt Jukes (of JISC, but currently on secondment to HEFCE) reminded me that, in my post on The Power Of Information report, I should have mentioned that, as well as encouraging reuse of government data, the report also recommends: Working with existing user-generated sites rather than creating ...
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November 14, 2007
Managers Are Invading The Workers’ Social Spaces
November 14, 2007
Which of the following reports is true: A recent report has shown that workers at many organisations are concerned about being ‘befriended’ by their mangers - who then have access to their Facebook details. “I was sacked“, said one anonymous ex-worker at a large organisation “for arriving late at work. It was due to transport problems. ...
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November 15, 2007
Open Development And Amplified Events
November 15, 2007
Open Development Ross Gardler, Manager of the JISC OSS Watch service, visited UKOLN yesterday to give a seminar on open development. Although OSS Watch’s main interest is in the application of this methodology within open source software development, as Ross made clear open development can also be applied in other contexts, including the development of content and in ...
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November 16, 2007
Don’t Look Back In Anger
November 16, 2007
In a post on Putting an official stamp on things Grainne Conole, professor of e-learning at the Open University responses to my post on UK Universities On Facebook, and reminisces about the problems she’d encountered in the early days of the Web: The powers that be in the institution began to get wind of this ‘Internet’ ...
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November 19, 2007
The History Of The Web Backwards
November 19, 2007
The “History of the World Backwards” comedy was launched on BBC 4 on 30 October 2007. The joke is based on time being reversed: “Today’s opener sees Nelson Mandela enter prison as a sweet-natured Spice Girls fan, but emerge from a long incarceration as a terrorist bent on the armed overthrow of the state.“ How might ...
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November 20, 2007
Thoughts On Animoto
November 20, 2007
The Tool - Animoto Andy Powell introduced me to Animoto, after he produced a video clip for UKOLN’s “Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks” workshop. Shortly afterwards he wrote a blog post about the Web-based tool for easily creating multimedia video clips by simply uploading photographs and letting the software do the donkey work. Andy ...
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November 21, 2007
The Gaps Between The Owned And The Externally-Hosted Services
November 21, 2007
Scott Wilson (JISC CETIS) and Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation) has recently published a couple of interesting posts on their blogs. which reflects my areas of interest. Scott’s post on PLEs and the institution contains an image which depicts his thoughts on “the set of connections between what an institution offers and what individuals manage“. I tend to ...
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November 22, 2007
When Two Tribes Go To War
November 22, 2007
Hostilities Commence Niall Sclater, Director of the OU VLE Programme at the Open University recently pointed out that the Slideshare service was down, using this as an “attempt to inject some reality into the VLEs v Small Pieces debate“.His colleague at the Open University, Tony Hirst responded with a post entitled “An error has occurred whilst ...
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November 27, 2007
Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks
November 27, 2007
The Event The UKOLN workshop on “Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks” took place yesterday at Austin Court, Birmingham. This event was initially meant to be held in March 2007, with the title “Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs“. However as we discovered a clash with the UCISA annual conference, we decided to postpone the event ...
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November 29, 2007
Transliteracy And Amplified Events
November 29, 2007
In Matt Matchel’s report on the Eclectic Dreams blog entitled “Liveblogging : Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks” he described the event as providing: A day of talks on the use of blogging in education, with live Second Life feed, web-cam and blog chatter… How very trans-literate! “Very transliterate!” What does Matt mean? Wikipedia cites ...
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November 30, 2007
The Long And Winding Road
November 30, 2007
I was recently an invited speaker at Intute’s first Staff Conference, which was described in a blog post on Intute’s newly launched blog service. The title of my talk was “What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?“. Before exploring the challenges which the range of externally hosted Web 2.0 service would pose to a ...
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