Motivations for participation

Just this week Intute staff gathered together for a conference, where – as you would expect – the future and current state of Web 2.0 developments were central to discussion. A stimulating and challenging presentation was delivered by Brian Kelly (UKOLN, UK Web Focus) on ‘What If Web 2.0 Really Does Change Everything?‘ (the slides are available in HTML or PowerPoint and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK licence).

At the end of the day Brian did admit that although he thought he was being controversial (and although he realised that Intute had been practising Web 2.0 since before the name was coined) he was surprised at the readiness of Intute to engage with these new developments! Brian’s contribution to our discussions of what to do next were invaluable! Thank you!

At the meeting this blog was ‘launched’ changing how Intute delivers news about our services, and allowing us the opportunity to share our expertise and reflect on best practices in academic use of the Internet. For more about our blog and our motivation for this as an organisation please read our ‘about this blog’ pages.

Image from Seattle Post-Intelligencer [deleted because of formatting issues with the blog, see comments below for a link or here http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/sixchix.asp?date=20071022]

So we have laid out some of our reasons for Intute engaging with Web 2.0 and today (just published) you may also be interested to read personal Motivations for Participation in the social web (Web 2.0) – the results of a survey carried out by Trebor Scholz (artist, and media commentator, Collectivate.net).

If ‘Web 2.0′ is still a mystery then there’s an excellent video presentation on YouTube ‘Machine is Us/ing Us‘ by Mike Wesch, which is embedded below.

You could also gain confidence in this new Web 2.0 world by regularly reading the blogs linked to from the Intute blogrolls (our favourite blogs in the right hand column of these pages), and better still participate in the discussions on this blog by adding your comments. If you’re investigating blogging for your organisation then an excellent place to start is the presentations and handouts which support Using Blogs Effectively Within Your Library (from the ILI 2007 Conference), a masterclass delivered by Brian Kelly (UKOLN) and Kara Jones (University of Bath). You should also join mailing lists such as lis-bloggers on JISCMail, or groups such as the Library 2.0 Interest Group on Facebook.

And as it’s Friday here are a couple of videos distributed on YouTube which caught our eye!

• A song and video about blogging and web 2.0 (in the style of They Might Be Giants?) ‘Are You Blogging This?‘ embedded below.

• ‘Hold my calls, I’m too busy blogging!’, David Brent-esque video ‘I’m blogging!‘ embedded below.

Comments are welcome!

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