Web 2.0 use in NZ organisations A goer or not?

Government shared workplace - secure and using and sharing resources and information economically and sensibly. I wouldn't know how well it is working but it is potentially a good use of web 2.0 tools.

How often are they used. e.g. tertiary group one seems to be used infrequently but as many of the links are password protected it is a bit hard to see.

At our team meeting last week, Nina was discussing a wiki she set up for a disparate group of southern traverse adventurers. They were planning their next attack on the race and the emails were flying think and fast. She suggested they needed to set up a wiki and they could then see all the comments everyone was making and could all access the same information. So they did . That was a couple of years ago and it is still functioning. It had/has a real use for the group and they can see its direct and current value so it was worth keeping it up. It was not something an IT guru thought they should be using but which gained no real traction with the user group. There is only so much time in the day.


The article on tools for the community circle
in the research e-labs documnet supports this by saying "One of the interesting things about the most successful online communities seems to be the desire of participants to do stuff together in the real world."

Further on in that article there is discussion about which tools to use to aid the community.

"For example you could provide search aids - “users who searched for this type of information also looked at …” etc. Or you could let individuals flag issues and use algorithms to escalate persistent stuff up to admins and respond back to users. Even the biggest sites can be made more personal this way and encourage more engagement."


Even this blog has not really recent entries.


But ones to do with library and reading have had more recent use, including the library tech one, but this also supports the theory that IT people spend a lot of time online and it is easy and quite natural to explore and add things as part of the normal day .


As I move further down the list of e-government web 2.0 social networking initiatives they look
more worthwhile relevant and better used.


This AMA is not a NZ resource but something similar could be ------ the kete idea, but it is worth looking at. It is just saying you are part of the community come and add your stuff to further build your community.

NZ GLAM resources were discussed on Radio NZ on thursday 17th September . The links provided there are worth investigating and the whole tone of the discussion was inspiring and exciting . So many opportunities but when!!!! That keeps coming up again and again and today it is a gorgeous day outside and I am in here doing this -- finding it interesting but also wanting to be outside:)

All of the links in this part of the project are very cool and have many uses ---- including the KRIS ones. Must come back to this. Even Matapihi is updating itself to include more of the things we now expect in that sort of historical but current encyclopedia format.