Exploiting The Potential of Blogs and Social NetworksDiscussion group 4: Providing Managed Services
Exploiting The Potential of Blogs and Social NetworksThis page provides access to the information for the discussion groups at the UKOLN workshop on Exploiting The Potential Of Blogs And Social Networks held at Austin Court, Birmingham on Monday 26th November 2007.
Following the plenary talks, workshop delegates will attend discussion groups which will provide an opportunity for group discussions. Since a WiFi network is available at the venue we will encourage the discussion groups to make use of a Wiki to keep a record of the group discussions and any recommendations which may be made.
The following wiki was used to keep a record of the discussions:
Discussion Group Title: Providing Managed Services
Reporter: Chris Sexton
What concerns may the institution have when considering developing or deploying in-house blogs and social networking services?
Academic literacy
Need staff involvement
Are rules and regulations fit for purpose - should we worry? Walk through some cases and see if rules fit. If not change them. Use examples.
Why would students use in house social networking - when they have their own.
Might be more successful for academic than for social networking
How learning skills are developed.
What concerns may the institution have when considering making use of externally-hosted blogs and social networking services?
External sites - out of uni control
Speed at which sites eg Bebo are taken down
Compliance, AUP
Dignity at work policy - Cardiff
Transient. Ephemeral. No record. Audit - eg QA, feedback loops.
Use SMS?
SMS train tickets!
How should such concerns be best addressed?
Review AUP and rules
Get advice from compliance unit?
Hear more from students
Walk through exisitng policies with a view to Web2.0 and how they might apply
Guidance from UCISA - toolkits?
Look at digital literacy aimed at academic staff.
Apply skills in real world to digital world, in an imaginative way.
