Our wiki scrum team is now testing Semantic MediaWiki, a tool that will improve the wiki’s search and browse experience by bringing further tagging (and resulting meaning) to our articles. To understand the power of such a tool, one must understand the concept of the Semantic Web. One of the simplest descriptions I’ve found is [...]
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The Semantic Web
Posted in libraries, Web 2.0, tagged Semantic Web on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Prioritization of New Feature Requests
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged Groundswell, Product management, Project management, Scrum on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My community team has had a problem lately trying to convince the product manager that certain features proposed to enhance communication and community should be placed earlier in the development schedule. But in defining the term “groundswell,” Li and Bernoff give a simple litmus test that may show which proposed features to prioritize. “The groundswell” [...]
Interns: Overlooked contributor source
Posted in libraries, Web 2.0, tagged interns on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I spent one hour on the bus and a half hour in the office reading sections of two books, trying to learn new paradigms and find something that will help me make my Web 2.0 team’s efforts more scalable. The two books were a couple I’ve been reading lately — William Becker’s How [...]
Listen to Marketing and improve the site? No! Convert consumers to contributors and focus them
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged Focusing contributors on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie quotes Bernard Shaw as saying “If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.” Carnegie, a master teacher, goes on to say “Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.” That got me to thinking about how I’ve been approaching [...]
A meme’s power to evolutionally weaken a site
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged genealogy, meme, Web 2.0 on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tim O’Reilley’s What is Web 2.0 classifies the term “Web 2.0″ as a meme (pronounced “meem”). It’s worthwhile to know what a meme is because the term smacks of democratization, crowdsourcing, and, at its core, the sort of environment-vs.-genetics, nurture-vs.-nature or choice-vs.-predestination connotations that are core to the Web’s direction. An understanding of the term [...]
Research writing and note tagging on del.icio.us
Posted in Internet favorites, Web 2.0, Writing to learn on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s probably no better way to learn a subject than to write about it as you research. Groundswell authors Li and Bernoff used del.icio.us to categorize the sites they learned about during their research. Each time they found a site that taught them something new, they created a del.icio.us entry for it. They annotated the [...]
New Internet favorites as blog posts
Posted in Internet favorites, libraries, Web 2.0 on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Del.icio.us has a brilliant feature on its site that would strengthen other sites and and give their users the feeling that there’s always something new there. Each day a Delicious member can post their newly tagged Internet favorites as a blog post with a series of links to each new site (Groundswell p.30). If a [...]
Beginning of notes on Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, by Li and Bernoff
Posted in Web 2.0, tagged community 2.0 conference, libraries, library, virtual reference, Web 2.0 on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The groundswell is happening, like it or not. Your choice is to A) learn how to coordinate the community to write the content customers ask for, or B) compete with the groundswell and become irrelevant.
