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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.