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Paper on "Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends" Published in Program

A paper on “ Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends ” has recently been published in the Program journal Program Electroni

Fragmenting The Discussion?

I’m An Occasional Facebook User I have to admit that although I have a Facebook account I don’t make much use of it. I do have a large number of Facebook

Baggy Trousers

Yesterday in a post on Is That A Pistol In Your Pocket? http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/is-that-a-pistol-in-your-pocket/ I wondered what type of

The First Year Of The UK Web Focus Blog

A Look Back The UK Web Focus blog was set up on 1st November 2006. After its first year in operation I feel it would be appropriate to document some of th

What Can Web 2.0 Offer To The IAMIC Community?

Last week I gave an invited presentation on “ What Can Web 2.0 Offer To The IAMIC Community? http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/iamic-2008

Now That Ning Has Gone ...

Demise of the Free Ning Service I first heard the news that “ Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff http://techcrunch.com/2010/04

Scribd - Doing For Documents What Slideshare Does For Presentations

As I’ve recently described, a couple of months ago I uploaded PDFs of a few of my papers to Slideshare, and wondered whether there was a business opportuni

Why You Should Do More Than Simply Claiming Your ORCID ID

Background to ORCID Last week the SpotOn London 2012 conference http://www.nature.com/spoton/2012/10/spoton-london-2012-timetable-programme/ solo12 includ

Interoperability Through Web 2.0

I recently commented on Martin Hamilton’s blog post http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/thoughts-on-the-crowdsourcing-experiment-institutional-web-2

Don’t Go To #ThatLondon in 2012!

by Brian Kelly | Jul 9, 2011 | General , Twitter |

Investigation into Challenges, Application and Benefits of Social Media in UK HEIs

by Brian Kelly | Feb 9, 2010 | Web2.0 A New Report A new report on “ An

Museums and the Web 2007 Conference: Day 3

by Brian Kelly | Apr 16, 2007 | Events , mw2007 |

Experiments With RDFa

The Context In a recent post I outlined some thoughts on Microformats and RDFa

The Network Effect Is Missing From The Standards Debate

by Brian Kelly | Jul 15, 2009 | standards |

Museums and the Web 2008 Conference

by Brian Kelly | Apr 7, 2008 | Events It was over 19 months ago when Jennifer Trant invited me to join the programme co

Geo-locating Your Event Tweets

by Brian Kelly | Jul 6, 2010 | Twitter A recent article in the Metro (published on 30 June 2010) described “London’s Twitter

How Can We Assess the Impact and ROI of Contributions to Wikipedia?

by Brian Kelly | Sep 27, 2010 | Web2.0 , Wikipedia |

Universities, Not Facebook, May Be Facing Collapse

When I wrote my post on Facebook WILL Die I never exp

Predicting The Twitter Backlash

I recently described Twitter and my initial experiments with it. I the

“From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability” Paper Published

by Brian Kelly | Jul 17, 2009 | Accessibility I’m pleased to report that a paper on From Web A

Microsoft “Wilfully Infringed i4i’s Patent”

Last year i4i won an injunction preventing Microsoft from

A Pilot Survey of the Numbers of Full-Text Items in Institutional Repositories

by Brian Kelly | Jun 6, 2011 | Evidence , Repositories |

Terms and Conditions for Online Services

by Brian Kelly | Apr 27, 2012 | Legal As described in the post on Have You Got Your Free Google Drive, Skydrive &

Openness and Open Folk Culture

Open Content in Higher Education I have been involved in promoting open

Not Your Father’s IT Innovation!

Yesterday a leader column in The Guardian suggested that the current g

“From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability” Talk at Techshare 2009

by Brian Kelly | Sep 2, 2009 | Accessibility A proposal for a talk I submitted to the R

Linked Data and Lessons From the Past

The Buzz at WWW 2010 I’m current in Raleigh, North Carolina

“It Ain’t What You Do, It’s The Fact That You Did It”

by Brian Kelly | Jan 2, 2012 | Social Web |

Enhancements to Dapper

by Brian Kelly | May 23, 2007 | Web2.0 I noticed recently that Tom Roper had spotted my posting about Blotter and has announced that

DBPedia and the Relationships Between Technical Articles

by Brian Kelly | Sep 14, 2010 | Linked Data , standards Wikipedia is Popular! I recently wrote a b

Lies, Dammed Lies, Blog Statistics and Unexpected Spikes

by Brian Kelly | Nov 25, 2008 | Blog There was some discussion a while ago on standards for usage

Things We Can Learn From Facebook

Are you pleased, angry or indifferent to Facebook developments (pho

Profiling Use of Third-Party Research Repository Services

by Brian Kelly | Feb 12, 2013 | openness , Repositories Background How significant is use of thir

Are University Web Sites in Decline?

by Brian Kelly | Oct 20, 2011 | Evidence , IWMC |

Revisiting Event Amplification

by Brian Kelly | Oct 14, 2018 | Events “Amplifying Your Event: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How” At next week’s ILI confe

Should We Boycott Academia.edu?

by Brian Kelly | Dec 9, 2015 | Evidence , Repositories |

Subverting Copyright (and Other Flawed Legislation)

Be Informed: Recent Changes to Copyright Law Last wee

On-the-fly use of networks at events

by Brian Kelly | Nov 6, 2006 | Accessibility , Events At the “Accessibility Summit II” meeting one of the invited part

Slideshare.net - a repository for slides

Vonage V-Phone - phone on a stick

Blog statistics - 2006-11-11

statistics – 2006-11-11 by Brian Kelly | Nov 12, 2006 | Blog |

Web 2.0: How Should IT Services and the Library Respond?

by Brian Kelly | Nov 12, 2006 | Events , Web2.0 |

Blogs published by IT Service Departments

I’ve added to my Blogroll links to two Blogs published by senior

LibraryThing

Michael Webb has recently posted an article on LibraryThing . I have also recently signed u

Blogs - suitable for reports?

Being Blogged At An Event

On Friday 1st December 2006 I gave a talk on “ Web 2.0: An Introduction

Star Gazing Conference 2006

by Brian Kelly | Nov 26, 2006 | Blog , Events , IWMC |

Exploiting Networked Applications At Events

by Brian Kelly | Nov 27, 2006 | Events , Web2.0 |

Reflections On 2006 - IWMW 2006

IWMC

UKOLN has hosted the Institutional Web Management Workshop every year since 1997, with this year’s e

PING PONG

I recently attended a joint JISC/UKOLN/CETIS awayday meeting. One of the issues which arose

Reflections on 2006 - Events

Reflections On 2006 - Accessibility

Christmas Quiz - An Answer

Reflections On 2006 - Standards

Blog Tag: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Brian Kelly

Tag: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Brian Kelly by Brian Kelly | Dec 20, 2006 | General |

Christmas Quiz II - An Answer

The Trouble With Wikis

UKOLN hosted a workshop on “ Exploring The Potential Of Wikis ” in Birmi

It's About Giving, Not Taking

Phong - it's awful, isn't it?

Writing Conventions For This Blog

Is this a Blog or a blog? Am I Blogging or blogging? And is the question

Other Blogs By JISC Services

Following my recent comments on the TASI Lightbox blog I noticed an incoming

IWMW 2007 - Call for Proposals

Blogs - Theme Of The Week

Why WordPress?

A while ago Roddy MacLeod asked me why I’d chosen the WordPress to host my blog. After hav

RSS Readers Used To View This Blog

I commented recently that this blog had received 4,000 visits since it

Comment Spam Sent To This Blog

The WordPress.com com blogger service has an automated filter for spam sen

MyBlogLog

I recently added this blog to the MyBlogLog service. From my personalised MyBlogLog page I can

What Can We Learn From Facebook?

Background Before Christmas I received an email from someone wa

Windows LiveWriter

There was a recent posting on the JISC Involve Blog which commented favourably on the

Song Of The Week To Accompany The Blog Theme

A Team Or An Individual's Blog?

Third Party or Institutional Provision of Blogs?

Scott Wilson (a blogging pioneer at CETIS) reviewed his

Experiments With Meebo

I mentioned previously that I’d installed the Meebo sidebar widget in order to exp

A Meta-Policy For Institutional Blogs

I recently published my Policies For This Blog . The comments I recei

Policies For This Blog

I suggested recently that there’s a need to define the role(s) of a blog if any me

Meebo - A Follow-Up

UK Library Bloggers and ILI 2007

It has been very pleasing to see the flurry of interest in my posting on

Blogs or Email for Discussions?

I recently sent an email about a bug in the Feed Validator sof

Finding Out About OpenID

by Brian Kelly | Feb 12, 2007 | Web2.0 There has been a lot of discussion recently about OpenID. It’s clear that this is an area I

RSS And The Hero Portal

I recently received a copy of “Hero Headlines” which contains news from Hero Ltd,

Email Subscription Service For This Blog

Roddy MacLeod recently pointed out the difficulties end us

Viral Marketing: From Store Wars To Web 2.0

The Store Wars Video I was told about the Store Wars video

Outlook 2007 - A User-Friendly Interface To RSS?

UK Universities On MySpace

Andy Powell alerted me to Warwick University’s presence on MySpace . Is thi

A Blog Plugins Used Page Would Be Useful

I recently came across the Net 2.0 blog (through the recently la

Green IT: Meeting the Environmental Challenge

by Brian Kelly | Feb 26, 2007 | Events UCISA have just announced that bookings are now open for the Managers

Web 2.0: What Can It Offer the Research Community?

by Brian Kelly | Feb 27, 2007 | Events |

Instant Messaging Interface To Applications

Back in the days when WAP was exciting (hmm, did I really w

Dapper - Web Mashup Development For All?

The Web: From Childhood to Early Adolescence

We are now seeing the Web developing from its childhood to

IT Services Reinventing Themselves

I gave a talk on IT Services: Help Or Hindrance? at the UCISA Manage

Benefits Of Uploading Your Image To Technorati

How do you ensure that your blog stands out in a page of se

Slideshare Repository and PDFs

by Brian Kelly | Mar 28, 2007 | Repositories , Web2.0 |

Snap Preview Facility

A WordPress feature which is enabled by default is the preview of the destination o

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