At 9:45 am +0100 13/7/05, Adrian Stevenson wrote:
>Hi
>
>> I don't think that the centrally-provided information
>> resource is the route we should be going down.
>> Providers of training courses, conferences, etc. should be
>> providing RSS feeds - for example, Netskills have RSS feeds
>> of their forthcoming workshops which could be embedded in your page.
>
>Yes that helps to some extent, but isn't there still the problem of not
>knowing about what you don't know about? If you've not heard about
>Netskills then you won't have subscribed to their feed. It's very hard to
>believe I know, but some peole haven't heard of IWMW.
>
>> But I'm also beginning to think that community-provided
>> information has an important role to play e.g. harvesting of
>> Blogs, use of Folksonomies, etc. So rather than expecting
>> others to do the work,
>
>That's part of your job isn't it :-)
>
>> or trapping data in unstructured email
>> environments, if we make use of applications such as Flicker,
>> del.ico.us, etc. the wider community can benefit.
>> Incidentally, if you Google for 'iwmw 2005' apart from my
>> Web site you find several Blog articles, several RSS reads -
>> but nothing from this list and little from other Web sites.
>> So valuable comments, questions, advice, etc. is findable if
>> it's Blogged - but disappeared when it goes into a mailing
>> list black hole. Time for a different approach?
>
>The unstructuredness of emails is the problem. It would be handy if someone
>or something could bring it all together so you can get to hear about events
>that you might not otherwise. Maybe UKOLN or someone could set up a wiki
>page for UK HE and FE web events or a blog that the community can add to
>that's more findable by Google as you say. I imagine some people don't want
>their comments to findable though.
Maybe something a bit more structured, like an event calendar?
Possibly that's *too* structured.
I think this is a really good idea, but I'm now just going to hide
under my desk until someone else does it...
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