Open Networks Online 2.0

collaborate|200728 June 2007

Simon Berry, Brian Rich and Paul Henderson ruralnet|uk

Open Networks Online 2.0

• What is Web 2.0 and why it’s important• How and why it has influenced our strategy

for the delivery of online services• Progress to date

– Website services (no ID/PW)• xPRESS Digest• Inforurale

– Extranet services (with ID/PW)• Experts Online• net:gain sales database

Presentation

Content

Production

Networks Online CMS 2.0The new model

3rdParties

Blog

October 2006 - ruralnet|2006 website - the jigsaw web presence

NOL- EoL- xPRESS- etc

Flickr

YouTube

Blog with embedded 3rd Party services

xPRESS Digest 2.01. Scan news from over 80 RSS feeds

2. Choose item

3. Go to news source

4. Post using Firefox/ScribeFire

5. Appears on website instantly

6. Automatically generate xPRESS email

xPRESS Digest 2.0 - tools

• Bloglines - RSS and mailing list aggregation• Firefox with Scribe Fire Addon• Wordpress blog with search• List server• php/mysql programming to produce email

xPRESS Digest to March 2007

Find news items

Copy and paste into email

Format

Send test email

Check and correct

Send to subscribers

Copy and paste individual items into blog

Outputs• xPRESS email• Blog with RSS Feed

Issues• Sources not shared consistently• Need to go and get items• Sources in various formats (eg

email, RSS etc)• Copy and paste tedious and time

consuming• Formatting not totally reliable• Double copying and pasting (to

maintain blog)• Blog editor often very slow• Search relies on Google (ie not

realtime)

• Time taken per day: ~3hrs

xPRESS Digest 2.0

Review incoming news itemsIn RSS Aggregator

Highlight items and move to blog

Insert link and tags

Email constructedautomatically

Click to send

Outputs• xPRESS email• Blog with RSS Feed• Integrated search• More accessible

Changes• Aggregator used to consolidate

sources - everyone uses the same sources - news comes to us

• Plugin used to move selected text to blog

• Minimum level of formatting• Email version generated directly from

blog• Blog running on dedicated server (fast)

with integrated search

• Time taken per day: ~1.5hrs

• Saving per year: ~£11,000

Auto-published to blog

Inforurale - the old way

New web resource found

Send to Info Manager

Logon to office databaseand add record

Database publishedto the web

Copy and paste url

Outputs• Shared bookmarks database• Slow search

Issues• Production goes through a single

person• Batch updating with alert email

done by hand• Slow search• Database cumbersome and

difficult to re-engineer• Difficult to share

• Time taken per year: ~90hrs

Inforurale 2.0

New web resource found

Sucked into BlogWith search facility

Add to del.icio.us

Outputs• Shared bookmarks database• Fast search• RSS feed• Widget possibilities

Issues• Production can be done by anyone

with a browser• Updating done as and when and

users/websites can subscribe to the RSS feed

• Fast search• Easy to share

• Time taken per year: ~40hrs

• Saving per year: ~£1,600

Experts Online 2.0

Scroll down

Meet the Experts

Alerts (+ xPRESS headlines)

Resources

Questions

Login to see answer

Single Signon

See the full answer

Ask a question

Other services

Other Opportunities with Web 2.0

• This is all pretty straight forward but it gets a lot more complicated when you want to integrate different services from different sources BEHIND an ID and a password.

• This requires the user to login many times

net:gain centre administration

• net:gain centres use on-line database to manage bookings

• separate login required for Experts Online

• new net:gain sales database under development

workshop bookings database

Login once…

Experts Online

Login twice …

Net:gain Sales Database

Login three times?

Networks Online S-S-O

Signon just once.

Signed into Experts Online

Signed into Sales Database

Networks Online S-S-O

• Sign on once

• Access all services after signing on

• Technique can be extended to work with trusted third parties.