Just got an email from Online Information about new content (mostly podcasts, some free, some priced, and the odd white paper) being available each month. This month the theme is social media. There are free podcasts as follows: Wikis and the lightweight software revolution (presentation by someone who sells wikis): The value of social media in 21st century organisations (round table discussion chaired by Euan Semple) : Enterprise wikis and employee collaboration (talk by JP Rangaswami, formerly Head of Alternative Market Models at DrKW and now CIO at BT Global Services, he has a blog at http://confusedofcalcutta.com/)
I listened to some of the latter (part of the problem of podcasts is they are difficult to skim!) and he does give some examples of why wikis are used in business (e.g. for deciding meeting agendas, as well as building up opinions or perspectives on a business problem, and capturing the context of contributions).
I'll also mention that there is a call for papers for the 2007 Online conference in London 4-6 December (http://www.online-information.co.uk/), ending 9 May. There is a minor theme "Information literacy as a core competency", but Web 2.0 and information discovery are more central themes.
I listened to some of the latter (part of the problem of podcasts is they are difficult to skim!) and he does give some examples of why wikis are used in business (e.g. for deciding meeting agendas, as well as building up opinions or perspectives on a business problem, and capturing the context of contributions).
I'll also mention that there is a call for papers for the 2007 Online conference in London 4-6 December (http://www.online-information.co.uk/), ending 9 May. There is a minor theme "Information literacy as a core competency", but Web 2.0 and information discovery are more central themes.
NB There is a link to the podcasts on the above online-information webpage.
Photo by Sheila Webber: White and pink blossom on grass, Sheffield, 2007
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