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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... -- ********************************************************** Helen Varley Sargan Information Provision & Webmaster University Computing Service New Museums Site email [log in to unmask] Pembroke St [log in to unmask] Cambridge CB2 3QH Phone 01223 334480 **********************************************************