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.

Adrian




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