Monday 20 November 2006

Promoting NTU Blogs

I have just drafted my monthly article for the internal Libraries and Learning Resources newsletter, LLR Link, and it focuses on Web 2.0 and the technologies that facilitate Web 2.0, of which the blog is one of many.

Web 2.0 is an attitude, not a technology. Web 2.0 (the attitude), to be effective, requires a culture of openness and sharing. The enabling technologies (blogs, wikis, MySpace, YouTube etc) have been successful because of the culture of trust and accountability that is fostered when non-compliance means involuntary exclusion. We need to learn and determine how we can work with these technologies as restricting or limiting their use is no longer an option.

How might we use the information posted by our community to help us learn? It really is a new paradigm.

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