Checkpoint- Web 2.0 is like Cooking

Oh, doesn’t time fly when you are on the home straight. After 5 weeks into my final subject it is time for a bit of a review. As with all of my blogs, I may revisit later with some changes, additions, reflections

My progression in INN346 has been as follows

• I defined what I understood Web 2.0 to be
• I had a look at my online digital identity
• I then investigated some Web 2.0 applications, Mint.com,  Confluence Wiki and detailed a recent mashup I created with Google Maps
• I set out to find some Inspirational Blogs and ways of aggregating Micro Blogs
• then looked at some success stories of Enterprise 2.0 implementation
• and then identified Risks to Business in not adopting Enterprise 2.0
• and today a bit of analysis and recommendations for Twitter in the Enterprise

And then I analysed my achievements with reference to marking criteria

1. Practical ability to leverage off web 2.0 to enhance personal branding.
   -I am currently submitting 2 quality posts per week, and receiving significant feedback from the QUT community
   -these posts have been cross promoted through my Twitter and Facebook accounts receiving positive input from students and work mates
   -the challenge is to have the wider online community commenting and acknowledging my presence
   - I have a few new strategies, an increasing Google presence, and some exciting blogs to assist these goals
2. Manner and consistency of participation in weekly workshops activities and your contribution
   - I have completed all workshop tasks, and attempted to comment on all relevant(with content) blogs
   - I have found that many of the bloggers do not have the benefit of INN347 and blogging experience and have attempted to assist where possible
   - Web 2.0 is a bit like cooking, everybody can do a bit, but positive feedback and friends enhance the experience
3. Ability to appraise Web2.0 strategies and solutions for organisational and personal success
   - I have analysed quite a few Web 2.0 tools in my blogs, and adopted many in my workplace(e.g.Tweetdeck)
4. Ability to engage successfully with the wider community (including  people outside of QUT) using Web 2.0 tools and techniques
   - Although I have not kept a record on external commenting, I have received some positive feedback
   - the initial weeks involved looking at blogs, and seeing what is out there – a very time consuming activity to find great content
   - the challenge is that now I have some rich content to communicate this out
5. Leadership via the ability to contribute to the structure and format of the workshop activities, and the smooth running of the online community
   - I have participated in all meetings, initiated comments on the wiki and set up several new accounts such as an openID account
   - I intend to develop the Twitter account further, and have investigated that all accounts for digitalorgs have been set up
   - As this is a new subject this is a difficult area to know how to best achieve this – I have guided a few undergrads in their blogs and met with them informally to assist

So, all in all I am making progression, have reviewed more blogs and articles in 6 weeks than I have in the past 6 months, and have found that Bloglines is a great aggregator of popular blogs, but struggles with integrating some of the more obscure ones.  I will continue to search for a more intuitive Blog reader…maybe someone will Blog about one?

For those of you that travel, the above image is a checkpoint in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt.