Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks Workshop
A UKOLN Workshop


Background

This page contains details of the UKOLN workshop on Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs And Social Networks held at Austin Court, Birmingham on Monday 26th November 2007.

Please note that this event was fully subscribed, with 100 participants.

Title

Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs And Social Networks.

Abstract

The one-day workshop on "Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs and Social Networks" will provide an opportunity for participants to hear about the approaches institutions are taking in the provision of or use of blogs and social networking services.

The workshop will provide three institutional case studies which illustrate the diversity of approaches which are possible, including use of a proprietary VLE (Blackboard) to host a (closed) blogging environment for students, use of an open source blogging service (Elgg) and use of a global social network (Facebook). Following on from these views from the institution we will hear a talk which describes the students perspective, based on work being carried out by the Student Union at the University of Bath.

As well as these case studies, two further talks will outline the requirements for the user communities and the challenges which institutional support services (including IT service departments) will need to address in supporting such services.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for group discussions on the issues highlighted in the talks.

A WiFi network will be available during the workshop.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the workshop delegates should:

Date and Location

This workshop was held at Austin Court, Birmingham on Monday 26th November 2007.

Booking

The closing date for bookings was Friday 26th October 2007.
The workshop fee, which includes workshop materials, lunch and coffee and access to the WiFi network, is £85.

Organisers

The workshop was organised by UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath. The workshop chair is Brian Kelly (UKOLN). Michelle Smith (UKOLN) is responsible for the workshop organisation and administration.

Tag For The Event

The recommended tag for the workshop is 'blogs-social-networks-workshop-2007'. We suggest this tag is used in social bookmarking services (such as del.icio.us), photographic sharing services (such as Flickr), Blogs, etc.