ISYS2356 Web 2.0 Adventure

Michael Sampson on Collaboration

2011-10-19T11:04:00.000+11:00

Michael Sampson on Collaboration:

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Facebook Like and Dislike Stamps

2011-06-08T16:24:00.000+10:00

Good idea!!! #socialmedia

Experienced the same web search engine optimization issue

2011-06-08T16:18:00.000+10:00

Community Manager Clubhouse Chitchat with SEOmoz’s @jennita: "

Jennifer Lopez. She might not have the most SEO-friendly full name, but she’s the coolest Jenny from the block as far as the search marketing industry is concerned

8. Set up custom RSS feeds for key bloggers

2011-06-08T15:54:00.000+10:00

via 8 Tips for Blogger Outreach

8. Set up custom RSS feeds for key bloggers

This is really at the end of the outreach process, but I often find that I’m contacting bloggers that operate in a niche within my niche. For example, a food blogger might build a relationship with a cupcake blog. If they like to consume content using RSS, it would be much better to give them a feed of posts which are strictly relevant to cupcakes.

Fortunately this is super-easy in Wordpress. Find the relevant tag page or category page such as:
http://www.robsfoodblog.com/tags/cupcakes/
and add /feed/ to the end of the URL:
http://www.robsfoodblog.com/tags/cupcakes/feed/
Score! Obviously this won’t work exactly on every wordpress install as it depends how you’ve got your permalinks set up, but it should be possible if you have a play around.

That’s all for now! Hopefully this post gives you some ideas that might freshen up your outreach strategies. If you’ve got any further ideas or questions, I’d love to hear them in the comments.

#repost Why Delicious.com is More Social Than You Think [and Not Going Anywhere]

2011-06-08T15:47:00.000+10:00

Why Delicious.com is More Social Than You Think [and Not Going Anywhere]: "

One such site that has continued to evolve and stay active is Delicious, but for whatever reason, it has failed to really make it into the top social media aggregation sites category. In fact many people had probably forgot about the site altogether until it was announced that Yahoo might close the project down. Well Delicious is not being shut down and it is actually a lot more social media friendly than you probably remember. Here are a collections of tips and features you can use to help you succeed better on Delicious.

Sorry for the Noise: Error in location of postings.

2011-06-08T10:32:00.000+10:00

Been playing with Google Readers Share function, and accidently posted the following sites into the wrong blog.
The following posts should have been posted on ymentions.blogspot.com

http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/ymca-building-plan-on-display.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/ymca-birthday-and-biblical-references.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/ymca-plants-community-vegetable-garden.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/free-dental-services-at-ymca.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/communication-problems-at-camp-keeping.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/steam-sauna-closed-member.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/industry-blog-pricks-up-on-new-supplier.html
http://web2-0adventure.blogspot.com/2011/06/user-generated-content-worlds-first.html

Anyway, feel free to checkout ymentions.blogspot.com

Communication Problems at Camp - keeping parents notified

2011-06-06T14:57:00.000+10:00

Communication Problems at Camp: "

We had a severe thunderstorm pass to the north of Camp Tecumseh on Saturday night. It did no damage to our property, however it has caused some major problems with communication lines to camp. Currently most of our phone lines are down and we have no internet access. The companies involved are working diligently to correct the problems but the storms did some major damage at a seceral key places in their network. We don’t know how long the outage will last.

Summer staff members checked in and are all here and doing well! We do have one phone line that is currently working and we ask that at the moment it be used for urgent messages only. That number is 765-563-6424. Hopefully the issues will be fixed shortly and our phones and internet will be back on line. Sorry if you have been trying to contact us today!

Industry blog pricks up on new supplier for YMCA in victoria

2011-06-06T14:56:00.000+10:00

<b>YMCA</b> Victoria hires Reactive for digital work: "

YMCA Victoria has hired Reactive as the youth hostel brand looks to improve the user participation of its websites. Digital agency Reactive has been appointed by YMCA Victoria (www.victoria.ymca.org.au) to implement the digital strategy and redesign ...
See all stories on this topic »

MuMbrella

user generated content = worlds first ymca

2011-06-06T14:55:00.000+10:00

The World's First <b>YMCA</b> | Flickr Photo Sharing: "Things you find just randomly walking around London.
www.flickr.com/photos/tinni/5802393513/"

Trove editing stats this semester

2011-06-05T12:57:00.001+10:00

Twitter/yammer was invented in 1935

2011-03-21T14:39:00.001+11:00

Via https://twitter.com/geoffromeo/status/1582648755

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The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging ... And When To Use Each One

2010-10-27T08:44:00.001+11:00

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RT: When Wikipedia is the assignment

2010-10-12T20:06:00.001+11:00

Alternative ways that you could submit / teach this assignment

http://edulibrary.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/when-wikipedia-is-the-assignment/

When we did this course there was a fair bit of plagiarised material that was published on student's blogs.

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Google's alternative to the Wikipedia

2010-10-12T20:00:00.001+11:00

This needs to be filed under the wiki chapter. I have seen this before (but never used) but came across this again tonight whilst reading the RMIT Librarian. You can view a list of RMIT Librarian bloggers here.

http://edulibrary.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/google-releases-wikipedia-rival/

I came across these blogs via a tweet.
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Twitter Tips for Corporate Learning

2010-09-29T10:46:00.000+10:00

This could be used to update the twitter syllabus for this web adventure.

Sent to you by Cameron Stewart via Google Reader:

Twitter Tips for Corporate Learning

via Blackboard Blogs by Angela Goldman on 27/09/10

One of the most common misconceptions about Twitter is that people are just posting what they had for breakfast and other miscellaneous (dare I say useless?) facts. Well, those people are out there, but the fact is, they are likely not a part of the numerous substantive conversations taking place on Twitter.

Twitter offers you the opportunity to curate a community in which you can share bite-size, high-value tweets as part of an ongoing conversation around a particular topic. So how does this apply to corporate learning? A few uses just off the top of my head…

Have learners "livetweet" classroom training
Set up a course "hashtag" so participants can keep conversation going
Have learners identify and "follow" virtual mentors to learn from
Network, share best practices and find answers to your greatest HR and training challenges

Dr. Tony Karrer offers a comprehensive guide to using Twitter for e-learning on his blog eLearning Technology.

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I've moved from saying "I don't get it" – to feeling like it's a good addition to my Learning Tool Set . But I also think that there's a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.

In this blog posting, Dr. Karrer shares links to "55 Great Articles" about using Twitter for learning, ranging from Twitter basics to Twitter and teaching, to Twitter and conferences. Definitely a great resource for the professional education community!

Things you can do from here:

Subscribe to Blackboard Blogs using Google Reader
Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

itunesU podcast from San Jose - Yahoo Pipes!

2010-09-08T10:58:00.002+10:00

Just been listeding to a podcast on Yahoo! Pipes via the website. This might be handy to get into Yahoo Pipes! somewhere down the track.

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Review of other blogs

2010-09-06T08:17:00.001+10:00

I have to do this for another subject, ISYS2441 Information and Knowledge Environments 2, over the course of the semester. You can read my reviews here.

via @techcrunch Google Wave Still Dead, But Funeral Won’t Be Until 2011. And Data Export Coming.

2010-09-04T12:14:00.002+10:00

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/30/google-wave-dead/

Also Google Wave will remain open if you self host.

http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/09/wave-open-source-next-steps-wave-in-box.html

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Persistence and Reflection

2010-09-03T16:15:00.001+10:00

The final two criteria I will post a video blog.

· Persistence (5%) - this rewards problem solving ability, effort and resourcefulness, regardless of eventual results achieved. Where you have encountered problems, how have you gone about solving them? Have you helped other people solve theirs?

· Reflection (10%)- quality and depth of your reflection on the processes you have undertaken and the relevance of these technologies to information management.

Having troubles with the video upload, this is a draft post only.

EDIT - New video recorded Saturday 4th September 2010.

How successful have you been in carrying out technical processes, e.g. embedding resources into your blog?

2010-09-03T15:55:00.000+10:00

· Execution (5%) - technical skills, how successful have you been in carrying out technical processes, e.g. embedding resources into your blog?

Throughout this process I have proved that I can:

Embed a video
Embed a document - used when we couldn't get the blogger wave bot to work. (It was nice to get a mention on Lydia's blog about this)
Publish pictures and text where available. I used 3 methods as my google account no longer accepts new images. The link was embedding via flickr, blogger where it worked and twitpic.
Embedding a map was unsuccessfully in the time that I had available. (I have done this before on another blog).

It should be noted that not all went to plan, I did have some weird presentation bugs. I wasn't sure if it was just on my PC but Sal pointed it out as well.

@web2adventure I can't see your blog properly only the background and the title are showing up. You know this?

12:47 AM Aug 11th via web

I am not sure why this happened, but fixing it is outside the skills taught in this course. I changed my theme from that shown in the background of my @web2adventure twitter account to the simple grey and white themed one that is shown now.

Interaction / Communication Criteria

2010-09-03T15:42:00.000+10:00

In my last post I stated that My Group, Sal, Vanessa, Nemo and Dave were awesome to work with. Besides talking about the assignment, I think that the activity most suited to doing as a group was Google Wave. Seeing it in real time makes more sense.

· Interaction / Communication (5%) - to what extent and how well have you interacted with other students, particularly your 'buddy' group? Particularly using these technologies.

Things that I did that I thought worked well were:

I tried to respond to tweets wherever possible, to keep the conversation moving.
Be helpful, encouraging and support.

With that said, I have not completed any analysis as to how my grouped faired compared to my communication / interactions with other groups. As I was monitoring the rss feeds regularly (infact they showed up on my igoogle homepage) it was just a case of finding a way to participate in whatever conversation was going on.

Sal's feedback re presentation of links was also great, I was able to improve my presentation by heeding his advice (or at least when I remembered to do it).

Participation Criteria

2010-09-03T15:31:00.000+10:00

Again, this is what I originally wrote:

You might also like to comment on the suitability of these as assessment criteria.

Assessing it in this way. Judging by how the other ones have gone from prior semesters, tend to be abandoned. Blogs average abandoned age. Example from semester 1.

Suitability of blogging platform < low value activity. Commenting on others.

Tell us (honestly!) how you feel the activity has helped you develop your skills and understanding of web technologies.

Programming > reason I abandoned my topic for ISYS

From the subject guide:

Participation (5%) - if you work through the entire tutorial and attempt the exercises, you should get full marks for this, regardless of how successful you have been.

As I have attempted all the exercises, I am hoping to do well here. Other things I attempted were:

Doing an extra wave with someone outside my group.
Setting up bundles to help save other students some time.
Giving Rick a hand to get started on twitter.
Monitoring others RSS feed so that I would be aware of new posts. This enabled me to comment on a lot of blogs as the assignment went on. (There is however not an easy way to count these comments though - perhaps a platform other then blogger is more suited)

My Group, Sal, Vanessa, Nemo and Dave were awesome to work with.

Breaking the final task up into bit sized chunks - Was it fun?

2010-09-03T15:22:00.000+10:00

Okay, I have 1 hour to finish the assessable component of my Web 2.0 Adventure. This is my original draft post and I have decided to chunk it into smaller sections.

Q1. Was it fun?

This is what I originally wrote:

It has been good to have to write about the tools. My strategy has been to contribute to the conversation, trying to be helpful where I can. I think this has worked well.

Keep in mind the five assessment criteria for this assignment - Participation, Interaction & communication, Execution, Persistence and Reflection (see the handout).

I agree with this still. Probably the most fun was with Google Wave, it was good to see how it all comes together, how much work I can imagine that you get done once you are up and going (ie you understand the technical skills of how it all works).

One thing that I didn't do that I thought about was to write to Douglas Reith and get his input into how he uses the tool. I met Douglas at Melbourne KMLF a few months back and we were chatting about it all then. There are a couple of public waves that he helped set up. Search for Melbourne Google Wave User's Group.

Hard to put everything that you have learnt on the blog | Embedding google maps

2010-09-03T14:05:00.001+10:00

Yesterday, I was working at Darebin Library with David. My computer was super slow therefore I didn't get a lot of work done. However, it was a good opportunity to watch David work with (and persevere with) Google Maps.

I had the problem with my here.

This is a good example of what Clay Shirky says in one of his talks about how there are a lot of 1/2 finnished things on the web (ie the move to mass collaboration).

You can view David's journey here:

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-maps-comments.html

and

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/map-using-mapsgooglecomau.html

and

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/trying-to-use-link-fn-again-for-map.html

and

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/map-better-work.html

and

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/map-again.html

and

http://rmitnozzwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-maps-test.html

Additional posts for Wikis < exploring alternative wikis to wikispaces

2010-09-03T13:16:00.003+10:00

For ISYS2441, Information and Knowledge Environments 2, we have to do a group wiki. We've had a bit of trouble getting started, you can view our progress to date here http://ike2.wikispaces.com/

As I can't load pictures on this blog, the work around that I have come up with is posting via twitpic.com Here are some additional tweets about wikis.

Question for @nozzdogg how transferable do you think this flock account will be?http://twitpic.com/2kpc652 minutes ago via Twitpic
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@nozzdogg also encouraged me to take another look at flock browser http://twitpic.com/2kpbxj2 minutes ago via Twitpic
PBwiki (short for peanutbutter wiki) was another 1 i looked athttp://twitpic.com/2kpbrj3 minutes ago via Twitpic
You could also moneytise your google adsense blog if u wanted#isys2441 #isys2356 http://twitpic.com/2kpbjd4 minutes ago via Twitpic
Exploring alternative wiki platforms > using google siteshttp://twitpic.com/2kpb325 minutes ago via Twitpic

If interested, you can also see my personal learning experiences on this blog http://isys2441.posterous.com/tag/wikiassignmentgroup