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.

How do people use blogs?

This is my first experience with Blogs, and I am curious to see how I can use the communication technology to help improve our library and eLearning services. I work in a university environment where we have to mange some aspects of learning and provide quality assured information resources; but we also have to empower learners to learn from peers and others, and we from them; and then there is the concept of 'a free for all'. Any asvice on how to structure questions to elicit good feeback would be very gratefully received.