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Exploiting The Digital Age For Research Staff: Lawrie Phipps

The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on exploiting digital tools for research staff. The workshop covers introductions, an overview of Web 2.0 tools including blogs and wikis, digital identities, and next steps. The agenda includes sessions on maintaining awareness through websites, discussion lists, journals, and blogs/microblogs. It also covers collaborating using wikis and Google Docs, communicating, crowd sourcing, discussion, and productivity tools like Zotero, Evernote, Google Calendar, and Remember The Milk.

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Exploiting The Digital Age For Research Staff: Lawrie Phipps

The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on exploiting digital tools for research staff. The workshop covers introductions, an overview of Web 2.0 tools including blogs and wikis, digital identities, and next steps. The agenda includes sessions on maintaining awareness through websites, discussion lists, journals, and blogs/microblogs. It also covers collaborating using wikis and Google Docs, communicating, crowd sourcing, discussion, and productivity tools like Zotero, Evernote, Google Calendar, and Remember The Milk.

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Exploiting the Digital Age for 

Research Staff
Lawrie Phipps
Programme
10:30 Introductions
11:00 Overview of Tools
11:45 Coffee
12:15 Blogs and Wikis
12:45 Lunch
13:30 Digital Identities
14:45 Next Steps
15:30 Close
Introductions
Lawrie Phipps
[email protected]
Overview of tools
Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term which describes the trend in the use of
World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to
enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably,
collaboration among users. These concepts have led to
the development and evolution of web-based communities
and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis
and blogs
Web 2.0. (2008, August 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:19, August 12, 2008, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=231424089
Examples
Britannica Online > Wikipedia
mp3.com >< Napster
personal websites > blogging
domain name > search engine
publishing > participation
directories (taxonomy) > tagging ("folksonomy")
content management >< wikis
But
 High turnover of 
companies
 Mergers
 Risks

Image courtesy of: Pablo Bastidas’


http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablobastidas/
What is it that you want to do?
What is it that you want to do?
 Maintain awareness
 Community ­ build/join
 Collaborating 
 Communicating
 Crowd Sourcing
 Dissemination
 Discussion
 Getting things done
Maintaining Awareness
Maintaining Awareness
Websites Discussion Lists Journals

Blogs Microblogs ?

Reader Your Site Your Blog


Community ­ build/join
 Facebook www.facebook.com/ 
 I am not your friend, I don’t want to be poked, I can not 
be brought and sold as a pet, I am neither a werewolf 
hunter nor a vampire slayer, I don’t want a virtual pizza, 
if I hadn’t contacted you just after I left school what 
makes you think I want to talk to you 25 years later? 
FaceBook? Just say no!
Community ­ build
 Ning www.ning.com  
 Easily build your own social network, a good place for 
people to get to know each other online communities 
can be closed or open and communication can be 
public or private.
Community ­ Join
 Nature…
 Others 
Collaborating
 Wiki ­ www.wikipedia.org 
 Probably the greatest piece of online 
collaboration 
 Google docs https://docs.google.com
 Can be used for collaboration on documents in 
a team or in the community
Communicating 
 The web is all about people, and people are 
all about communicating
Crowd Sourcing
 the act of taking a task and outsourcing it to an 
undefined, generally large group of people or 
community in the form of an open call
 Ideascale http://www.ideascale.com  
 Mechanical turk https://www.mturk.com/mturk/ 
take advantage of a community that are willing to work 
for you on small tasks for micropayments. 
Dissemination
 What is it you want to disseminate?

 Crowd sourcing in reverse
Discussion
 Fora, communities, blogs etc
 Be aware of who’s on the site
 Build credibility first
 Don’t seek to “attack” other people’s 
ideas
Getting things done: 
productivity tools
 Zotero http://www.zotero.org/    Evernote http://evernote.com/  
a free bibliographic   a note taking application, 
management tool includes ability to clip content 
 Google calendar  from any application.
https://www.google.com/calendar/
 Dipity http://www.dipity.com/ ­ 
 
a simple timeline builder
 Remember the milk 
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
 a to do list application that 
can be shared and can be 
used in a number of different 
applications (twitter, google 
calendar, blackberries and 
mobile phones)
Data Visualisation
 Touchgraph
Questions

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