Personal or Institutional Use of Social Web Services For Scholarly Communication?
Personal or Institutional Use of Social Web Services For Scholarly Communication?
A pre-recorded video of a talk on "Personal or Institutional Use of Social Web Services For Scholarly Communication?" was presented at The Scholarly Communication Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges symposium held at the Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester from 11.25-11.50 on 30 November 2010
Abstract
Social Web services, such as blogs, have been used successfully by early adopters. But should we now see such services being migrated to the institutional environment in order to address institutional concerns? Or should the institution seek to exploit the benefits of such out-sourced approaches?
In this talk Brian will provide examples of successful blogs provided by various early adopters within the UK higher education community. He will describe how such bloggers have developed approaches which maintain the authority and integrity of the blogger whilst maintaining a professional approach which is appreciative of potential institutional concerns.
Brian suggests that rather than seeking to move such blogs into an institutional context, the cuts in funding in higher and further education may result in greater use of Cloud Services rather than in-house software. If this is the case then the approaches taken by such early adopters may become mainstream and provide the basis for the development of institutional guidelines on use of Social Web services to support institutional activities.
Note that this talk will be given as a pre-recorded video as the speaker is giving a talk on the same day at the Online Information conference. This double-booking provides an opportunity to evaluate the potential of online delivery of talks at conferences.
Presentation
Pre-recorded Video
A video of the talk (18 mins long) is available:
- On Vimeo
- On Panopto (note requires Microsoft Silverlight to display)
- MP4 format (for downloading at event in case of network problems)
- Personal or Institutional Use of Social Web Services For Scholarly Communication?
- [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]
- Moving From Personal to Organisational Use of the Social Web
- [About] - [MS Word 97/2000 format] - [PDF format] - [HTML format]
Note the presentation hosted on Vimeo is embedded below.
Personal or Institutional Use of Social Web Services For Scholarly Communication? from Brian Kelly on Vimeo.
Slides
The slides are also available on Slideshare and are embedded below.
Paper
The following paper relates to this talk.
Biographical Details
Brian Kelly is a national Web adviser to the
UK's higher and further education communities. Brian is based at UKOLN, a national
centre of expertise in digital information management.
Brian has been involved in Web activities since January 1993 when he helped to set up a Web service at the University of Leeds - possible the first institutional Web service in the UK.
Brian's area of interests include Web standards, Web accessibility and ways in which innovative Web technologies and approaches can be used to support institutional activities. This work includes exploring effective ways of exploiting the potential of Social Web services. Recent papers in this areas include "Approaches To Archiving Professional Blogs Hosted In The Cloud", "Twitter Archiving Using Twapper Keeper: Technical And Policy Challenges", "Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web" and "Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends".
Note that additional photographs of Brian Kelly are available.