Hi Brian,
I didn't get up early to claim http://www.facebook.com/mariekeguy/ -
these are the benefits of having an unusual name.
;-)
I definitely think this is an area of interest for IWMW from both the
'institutional policy' angle and the 'digital identity' for students and
staff angle.
I've written a blog post touching on the digital identity side.
http://remoteworker.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/digital-identity-dilemmas/
Marieke
Brian Kelly wrote:
> From the comments I received on Twitter and in response to Saturday's blog
> post on "Have You Claimed Your Personal And Institutional Facebook Vanity
> URL?" [1] it seems some people were up very early to claim their short URL
> for their institutional page on Facebook.
>
> And in the light of the recent demise of the Hero.ac.uk portal, perhaps
> there's an even greater need to provide marketing information about and
> links to our institutional Web site.
>
> But what are the emerging best practices for:
>
> o Naming conventions
> o Workflow processes
> o Content provided
> o Levels of resources provided
> o ...
>
> I've raised these issues in more depth at:
> http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/which-will-last-longer-hero-ac-uk
> -or-facebook/
>
> I'm also wondering whether there would be any interest in a bar camp on this
> at IWMW 2009.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
> References
> 1
> http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/have-you-claimed-your-personal-an
> d-institutional-facebook-vanity-url/
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> Brian Kelly
> UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, UK, BA2 7AY
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> Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
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