**Apologies for cross-posting**
Blogs, RSS and Wikis: tools for dissemination, collaboration and information
gathering
to be held at
The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
Tuesday, 22nd April, 2008, 9.30 - 16.30
Course Outline
Without realising it you are probably already using RSS, blogs and wikis -
all Web 2.0 technologies. Awareness of them amongst users will increase as
Microsoft incorporates Web 2.0 technologies into Office 2007, Outlook and
its server products so don't get left behind. This workshop will cut
through the jargon and hype and suggest ways in which you can use them as
information sources, tools of collaboration or as part of your information
delivery strategy. It will look at how they can be used to manage projects,
provide users with current awareness, generate newsletters and promote your
expertise to colleagues, users and clients. There is a substantial
practical element to the workshop giving you a chance to try out the
technologies, assess their relevance and consider how you can implement them
within your organisation.
The programme includes:
* Blogs, RSS and wikis defined
* Key applications and reasons for using them
* How to use RSS for current awareness and news alerts
* Identifying relevant RSS feeds and blogs
* Using RSS and blogs to market your services and keep your users up to date
* Setting up a blog
* Creating RSS feeds
* Blogs and wikis as collaborative tools
There will be practical sessions during which you can set up your own
personal alerts service using RSS, start a blog and contribute to a wiki.
The techniques and approaches described in this workshop can be applied to
all subject areas.
**** N.B. Places on this course are strictly limited because of access to
PCs so please book early to avoid disappointment ****
Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman
Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession for over twenty
years and has been a freelance consultant since 1989. Her company (RBA
Information Services) provides training and consultancy on the use of the
Internet, and on accessing and managing information resources. Karen writes
for "Business Information Searcher". She also publishes a monthly,
electronic newsletter called "Tales from the Terminal Room." Her
publications include "Search Strategies for the Internet," now in its sixth
edition. She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 she
received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year
award
To register your interest in this meeting, reserve a place, or request
further details, please email [log in to unmask] Further details are
also available via the UKeiG website at www.ukeig.org.uk.
UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of
Library and Information Professionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E
7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.
Go to http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/April/BlogsManchester200804.html
for more information and to book online or download a booking form.
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