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Frequent concerns that people express about using blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 technology in a corporate environment revolve around what’s appropriate and what isn’t. Certainly there are things that pretty much everyone would agree don’t reflect professional behavior, but what about that whole swath of gray area that seems almost as big as the [...]

A couple of us from NextGen — including me — are attending the O’Reilly Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco this week. Before I head out, I thought I’d jot down a couple things I’m hoping to get from the conference. First, I want to better establish a shared definition of Web 2.0 that we’ll [...]

As we’re currently in the midst of a free thinking Friday – I pose the following question. Why brownbags and not blog posts? Often, either free-standing or as part of departmental meetings, we have brownbag sessions as a way to communicate projects, report results, or other internal news and updates of note. Similarly, there are [...]

Based upon some conversations I’ve been listening to on Twitter, I just came across the SPLASH project (Student Personal Learning And Social Homepages) at the University of Sussex. As we are currently evaluating some of the same back-end software, this write up is not just a recommended read, but of particular interest to see the [...]

Currently we’ve been discussing the inherent value of adopting web principles as guiding direction for our internal teams. As one of the first posts on this blog, Jason worked toward a definition of the Content Management and Online Colaboration team. Building on this, we’ve been on the lookout for other groups’ Web Principles to help [...]

I read a great piece the other day by Kevin Kelly at “The Technium.”  Read it here: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/02/the_bottom_is_n.php Kelly’s one of the originators of Wired magazine, and he’s written a lot about the hive mind, the wisdom of crowds, the whole idea that one route to excellence is to empower the people and to watch [...]

There’s a good post at O’Reilly radar (http://radar.oreilly.com/) today: The piece is a thoughtful examination of how one content producer — Reuters — envisions how the future of the web (specifically, the semantic web) will affect its own directions.  It’s not hard to see parallels to Capella here: like Reuters, we are producing “professional data,” we [...]

Some good discussions this week among the CMOC team (the fightin’ Sea Moccasins of CMOC, I like to call us) about what a transformed learner iGuide might look like. This is a fun part of any project like this: we get to open our minds, talk about possbilities, brainstorm new ways of doing things.  Of [...]

So we’ve just flipped our calendars to a new year. If I make any resolutions, they’re generally the same as those I made the year — or even the day — before: read more, eat better, be more patient, spend more time with my kids, break 80 on the golf course. But even if it [...]

One of the projects we’ve been casually evaluating is how to better leverage RSS feeds across the University. So far we’ve had a lot of great ideas, but the most difficult element we’re running into is simply communicating what RSS is and how it works, in a simple way and without delving into code. Jason [...]