I thought in the spirit of Web 2.0 ‘culture of openess’ that I would share my positive experiences of a recent workshop in Manchester entitled, ‘Sharing Made Simple: a practical approach to social software’. The day was full of new terminologies and activities in the Web 2.0 world. Buzz words such as wikis, flickr, del.ic.ous, twitter, librarything, second life, rss, atom and mash ups were explained. The programme consisted of the following speakers:Brian Kelly, UKOLN, gave a introduction to Web 2.0 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/archivists-2008-03/
http://sharing-made-simple-2008-03.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
Guy Grannum, The National Archives gave a presentation on the National Archives Wiki, YourArchives http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Home_page
Jane Stevenson, The Archives Hub, looked at the creating and maintaining a blog and setting up and development of the Archives Hub Web 2.0
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/
Finally, we got the chance for hands on exercises which included chat services (gabbly), peronalised hompages (netvibes), social bookmarking and blogs (blogger).
- Exercise 1: Using Gabbly: A Web-based Chat Tool
- Exercise 2: Using Wikipedia To Read About Archive Resources
- Exercise 3: Using Wetpaint: An Externally Hosted Wiki Service
- Exercise 4: Create Your Own Netvibes Pages and Add An RSS Feed
- Exercise 5: Create Your Own Blog Using Blogger
- Exercise 6: Using Netvibes To Read And Manage RSS Feeds
- Exercise 7 Use Of Social Bookmarking And Social Sharing Services format
- Exercise 8: Staff Development To Support Use Of Web 2.0 Technologies
- Exercise 9: Using YouTube
- Exercise 10: Participating In A Social Networking Service
- Exercise 11: Using Facebook
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/archivists-2008-03/exercises/
