4/12/07 - Web 2.0 in Action - Anne Welsh

Tuesday 4th December 4pm - 5.30pm
Web 2.0 in Action

Anne Welsh
We’ve got the technology, now how do we find the time?
Ideally for the final presentation of the day Anne summarised her paper using short pithy bullet points, which illustrated how Drugscope managed to use Web 2.0 tools with very little money or staff time:

Anne’s Web 2.0 Tips
1. Make time for development ideas - even if it is only 10 minutes a week, and have a wish list of technology or tools you would like to use
2. Think big……then scale to suit your resources
3. Keep up with new technology - it may became more relevant over time
4. Make friends with feeds (RSS feeds saved Drugscope the equivalent of 2 staff days a week manually looking for relevant articles)
5. Reuse and Repurpose by adding the same or modified content in different environments for different customers, (blogs, reading lists, website, etc.,)

2.0 for All?
Don’t just do it because everyone else is doing it - do it because it meets your business needs for efficiency and time.

(Full paper available in the conference proceedings)