Comments on: The Open University’s Portfolio Of Web 2.0 Services

By: JISC PoWR » Blog Archive » Preservation Of Your Tweets

JISC PoWR » Blog Archive » Preservation Of Your Tweets — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:03:54 +0000

[...] a recent post on the UK Web Focus blog I described how the Open University has set up an institutional Twitter account. And a number of [...]

By: Andreas Moser

Andreas Moser — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:44:58 +0000

I am just about to begin an MA in Philosophy at the Open University (http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/ma-philosophy/) and I am excited to find out about the technical possibilities.

By: Institutional Twitter Accounts « Thoughts Under Construction

Institutional Twitter Accounts « Thoughts Under Construction — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:18:10 +0000

[...] 21, 2008 · No Comments Brian Kelly, through his UK Web Focus blog, has discovered several UK HE institutions with institutional Twitter accounts. It will be [...]

By: Hannah Hiles

Hannah Hiles — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:22:16 +0000

Hi there
I am Media & PR Officer at Keele University and I have just (today!) created a Twitter account for the University at http://twitter.com/KeeleUniversity
I’m really keen to see how we can use it and how many people are actually interested in following us!
Cheers
Hannah

By: JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Preservation Of Your Tweets

JISC-PoWR » Blog Archive » Preservation Of Your Tweets — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:02:24 +0000

[...] a recent post on the UK Web Focus blog I described how the Open University has set up an institutional Twitter account. And a number of [...]

By: Fragmentation, Ghettoisation and Polarisation or Diversification? « UK Web Focus

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:18:02 +0000

[...] by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 10 July 2008 In response to my recent post on “The Open University’s Portfolio Of Web 2.0 Services” Stuart Smith described how “It’s really interesting how polarising the lowcost, easy [...]

By: Stuart Smith

Stuart Smith — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:38:30 +0000

It’s really interesting how polarising the lowcost, easy development web 2.0 stuff is becoming. I often get asked about the risk of all this i.e. service like Twitter and Facebook disappearing or changing terms etc.. But I wonder does it matter? After-all institutions spend a fortune on some systems and the companies that provide them can also disappear and change terms.

Web 2.0 seems seems to be working best at the institutional level where the development is cheap and easy. This way you can keep up with the trends. But I suppose the real question that prevents this from going mainstream is what is the real cost? Anyone got any ideas yet?

By: Matt Machell

Matt Machell — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:25:16 +0000

As far as institutional use of Twitter goes, I know Birmingham City Unversity, Coventry and Aston have accounts.

The difficulty is, as Mike points out, making the usage more than just a repurposing of existing material.

By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus)

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:17:53 +0000

Thanks for the information on your institutional use of Twitter, Ian and Mike. In light of UKOLN and ULCC's JISC PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) project I've an interest in the records management aspects of use of this type of technology e.g. keeping audit trails; handling possible discrepencies across various delivery channels; etc.

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:53:13 +0000

Edge Hill have an “official” Twitter account – http://twitter.com/edgehill – but we’re still thinking about how best to use it. We want it to be more than just republishing the RSS feed (which seems to be OU’s approach) – we want to actively engage with Twitter users.

By: Ian Loasby

Ian Loasby — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:36:38 +0000

Hi Brian,

although I cant claim its an official University of Sheffield channel, we have been feeding our Law School News blog via twitterfeed through to @lawsheffield for a few months now.

Just a shame we only have 6 followers.

http://twitter.com/lawsheffield

By: Tony Hirst

Tony Hirst — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:07:39 +0000

Seems like Martin beat me to the iTunesU comment ( http://www.open.ac.uk/itunes/ ).

Although I don’t think we have a widget strategy yet, a nicely polished ‘Fact of the Day’ widget was released a couple of weeks ago ( http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/openair/?p=282 ) which publishes a daily fact and then links through to an OpenLearn Unit where you can learn more about that fact.

I was involved with scoping out how we could an OU themed Grazr widget to embed OpenLearn content in the SkyLearning website, but I maybe because I didn’t argue it forcefully enough (or maybe because of sensitivities relating to our relationship with another broadcaster…!) the full content embedding never happened, just thematic links ( http://explorer.jointhebiggerpicture.com/courseshome.aspx ). Still, maybe the next stop will be syndicated learning content?;-)

The OU Library are exploring some “web2.0″ things ( http://library.open.ac.uk/services/lib20servs/ ), but the really polished offerings are still to appear… They’ve also been trying out Google Analytics on the Library website and I think they’re even using some of the metrics as KPIs for the website? (There’s a paper in at ILI2008 on this).

As for being embraced by the OU, I think the projects that go through may do so because the project team can point at the chaos that is http://OUseful.info and say “look at the mess you get if we don’t do this stuff properly…” ;-)

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:33:58 +0000

Hi Brian – re. the iTunes claim, it was that we were one of the first UK universities on iTunes U, the dedicated university part – others, including your good selves had gotten there before us on iTunes itself. They only rolled iTunes U out to Europe last month though.
As for Hirst becoming part of the establishment, for his sake, I hope not ;)