Exploiting Networked Applications At Events

As described in a previous post, the Stargazing Conference 2006 on Social Technologies - Pioneer to Mainstream exploited the WiFi network available in the room and also made the talks available to remote users through use of video-streaming and allowed the remote participants to join in with the discussions using a chat facility.

As described in Using Networked Technologies To Support Conferences (Kelly, B., Tonkin, E. and Shabajee, P. EUNIS 2005 Conference Proceedings (CD ROM) UKOLN has been an early pioneer in exploiting networked technologies to support events.

More recently we have published a series of documents which aim to provide practical advice on best practices for supporting use of networked applications at events, including briefing documents on Guidelines For Exploiting WiFi Networks At Events, Exploiting Networked Applications At Events, Guide To The Use Of Wikis At Events and Use Of Social Tagging Services At Events.

As the advice provided in these documents does not seem to be widely known, I thought I’d include the details of the Exploiting Networked Applications At Events briefing document in this post. Your feedback on this would be appreciated.

Let’s Not Forget RSS Statistics

Pete Johnston, Eduserv Foundation, emailed me about the statistics shown in a previous post.

To clarify things, the graph showed the number of visits to the HTML pages on the WordPress Web site. It does not include views of the RSS feed from people who make use of RSS viewers (and many of the initial readers of the Blog are likely to be those who make use of such tools).

The statistics for the feed views is shown below.