IntroToBlogging

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This wiki page was created for a presentation introducing weblogs, social software, etc... to students.

Open, Connected & Social

Blogs, wikis, social software, open content, and "Web 2.0"

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Weblogs

Weblogs in Plain English video by CommonCraft

What is a weblog?

  • a personal content management system
  • a tool to foster and grow collaboration
  • an easy way for individuals (and groups) to publish content without technical knowledge or experience
  • conventional weblogs are hybrids of online journals and magazines - from one person's (or a small group's) perspective
  • Brian Lamb's Intro to Weblogs

How does it differ from discussion boards?

Map of the Flickr Blogosphere - relations between individual content publishers in a larger organic network
  • Discussion boards are usually without a unifying direction - low signal:noise ratio
  • Weblogs typically have a specific direction or focus (an individual's perspective and experience), and others are welcome to participate - high signal:noise ratio
  • Weblogs form rich, deeply linked networks between trusted sources (individuals and groups)

What good is a weblog?

Personal Knowledge Management

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Outboard Brain

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How most people handle it

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Files

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Books and assorted media

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Why?

  • archival
  • flexible(ish)
  • hard to search
  • hard to share

How Web 2.0 handles it

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Tags

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Networks

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Why?

  • archival, but also fresh
  • flexible
  • easy to search
  • easy to share (and collaborate, and build upon)

How?

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Open, Connected & Social

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A presentation, in four parts, on the topics of creating and using content openly, reusing existing resources, and connecting content and people in a decentralized, flexible model. Your tour guides for this ride are Brian Lamb from UBC, Jim Groom from University of Mary Washington, D'Arcy Norman from the University of Calgary, and Alan Levine from the New Media Consortium.

Collaborative Knowledge Management

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blogs

dynamic networks formed within the "blogosphere"

wikis

collaboratively edited web pages (and entire sites)

shared services

the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...

Social Connections

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Find your network(s)

The Power of Positive Narcissism

Link to blogs/wikis that you like, use and trust. They will likely find the link and if they like, use and trust your blog, they may reciprocate.

Examples from UCalgary

Examples from other institutions

Questions?