B8:
"Building The Web Management Community"
This page provides details for the workshop session on
"Building The Web Management Community".
- Title:
- Building The Web Management Community
- Facilitator:
- Brian Kelly
UKOLN, University of Bath. Note that
Steven Warburton,
Kings College London, was unable to facilitate the workshop.
- Abstract:
- Members of institutional Web management teams have helped to develop a
sustainable community through use of mailing lists, such as the web-support
and website-info-mgt JISCMail lists (which are very successful in sharing
tips and receiving advice on problems) and participation at the IWMW series
of workshops (which provide an opportunity for members of the community to
meet, hear about new trends and best practices and to share concerns).
- Web 2.0 technologies and approaches provides an opportunity to further
develop and build the community, by providing a richer set of tools to
support our work. Wikis, for example, could be used for writing
collaborative documents; blogs could be used for documenting decisions,
ideas, etc. taken by Web developers and inviting comments and responses from
the wider community (an approach which has been taken in the
ukwebfocus.wordpress.com Blog and other social networking services may have
roles to play in supporting the community.
- Such tools and services can provide opportunities for increasing visibility
of members of the community, creating dialogues, giving a voice to many who
might not always have the opportunity to 'speak', developing a shared
purpose (almost a set of values) through sharing artifacts such as blogs,
RSS feeds, documents, conference reports, etc. and finally providing a
strong network through which members can help each other and become
resources for each other. These would appear to be key areas where deploying
Web 2.0 tools can really foster communities ... a facilitatory tool-set that
provides a participatory environment where communities can really start to
build themselves.
- And, of course, the experiences gained by members of institutional Web teams
in using such technologies will also inform their use elsewhere within our
institutions.
- But as we know, there will be many issues which need to be addressed in
seeking to exploit Web 2.0. How should we address possible legal barriers?
What about privacy issues? Will such services be sustainable? Which services
should we be looking at and should we be prepared to take the risks
associated with use of externally hosted Web 2.0 services?
- Learning Objectives:
- This session will allow attendees to address embedding and sustainability
issues: how can we ensure that the community takes an active role in
engaging with a community of practice and ensuring that initial enthusiasm
doesn't wane?
- Rating:
- Technical:
- Hands on:
- Note: Each session is given a rating from 0 (low) to 3 (high).
More information on this is available on the
call page.
- Room Requirements:
- PC and data projector.
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre (V/045)
- Time:
- Tuesday 17th July 2007 from 15:30-17:00
- Contact Details
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