• Topic 4 - Exercise 1a

    Blog or Wiki Design

    How would you design and manage content in a blog? Use your blog experiences so far?

    After spending a few weeks blogging for this subject, I must say I have enjoyed the experience.
    I find blogging an efficient and satisfying way to respond to tasks, organise ideas and link to others within the subject group.

    The first thing I did was plot out the structure of my blog site. I have only included 2 separate pages in my blog - About and Home. About contains a short piece of information about myself and the Home page is where my recent postings appear. I have relied on categories for the major method of organisation of my posts, and find that works well for me. I have major categories organised with sub-categories as follows - Read the rest of this entry »


  • Using Social Networks and Online Communities - more thoughts….

    My Experiences with Online Communities - 2

    In my quest to discover and learn about Folksonomies, I realised just how involved the topic is. I managed to get my FOAF - Friend of a Friend - file completed and will be interested to see if or how that all works. The concept behind it is great, but in my mind I am still trying to get my head around the idea of trying to connect everyone who uses the world wide web in some way. I found it a little obscure, but perhaps I don’t fully understand it all? Read the rest of this entry »