Perils and Possibilities of Web 2

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    1. The Perils and Possibilities of Web 2.0 Matt Machell, Evidence Base www.eclecticdreams.com
    2. I build websites
    3. The Web’s a pretty confusing place. You need a map.
    4. From the excellent xkcd.com/
    5. Or maybe a guide?
    6. Peril #1: Getting distracted by technology
    7. Good technology solves problems. • “How do I?” • “I wish I could...” • “if only there was a way to...”
    8. Latching onto buzzwords is dangerous
    9. “Make it look more web 2.0!” “We need a blog and a wiki!” “The kids love Facebook! If we use it the awesome will rub off on us!”
    10. Possibility #1: Remember it’s about tasks and people
    11. What problem does your service solve for “me”?
    12. Social sites work best with a purpose. • What’s your site’s purpose? • Just what are we here to do?
    13. People talking generates ideas
    14. If you build great things people will use them.
    15. Peril #2: People spend 99% of their time elsewhere
    16. If a blog launches on the web, does anybody care? • Technorati says the blogsphere doubles once every 6 months. • Blogpulse say that might only be 30% that's active growth.
    17. Launching a new website means nothing if nobody can find it.
    18. How do people find websites? • Google? • Other websites • Recommendation
    19. Go where the audience is
    20. • Blogs, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, Digg, Orkut, Twitter, mailing lists, forums, and so on, and so on • Might not be on the web… • What’s appropriate for your project?
    21. Respect the spaces you enter. Be human, not a marketing troll.
    22. Be part of the community • Go out and find your users • Build mutually beneficial relationships • Conversation takes time and effort • People who meet in real life, have more long- lasting web connections.
    23. The Art of Successful Blogging • Talk like a real person! • Be prepared to actually listen • Ask questions • Solicit opinion • People love lists... Recommended: copyblogger.com
    24. Possibility #2: Harness people’s passion for finding and sharing
    25. Link sharing is everywhere • Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Ma.gnolia.com • Comment constructively on other people’s blogs • Help people on forums
    26. Peril #3: Believing your own hype
    27. “our site gets a million hits a day!”
    28. • A single page view can generate 50 hits • What if the path to the good stuff takes you through 5 pages? • An elegant site might get fewer hits than your poorly designed one. • What about all the searchbots, spambots and email harvesters?
    29. • What do you need to measure? • How do you measure it?
    30. Meaningful interactions
    31. • An event signup: No. of people registered • A forum : Contributions favourited by users • A blog : Inbound links, comments, Technorati rank
    32. Possibility #3: Measure success in a meaningful way
    33. • Use a good analytics package • Discover who actually visits your site and why • Evolve to take advantage of this
    34. Peril #4: Live by the crowd, die by the crowd
    35. The web gives the illusion of anonymity. Anonymity breeds contempt
    36. The users are revolting!
    37. • Teenagers change online identities with regularly • People will say what they think, and you won’t necessarily like it • Some people want to talk about selling Viagra
    38. Possibility #4: Groups can be self policing
    39. • Set solid, but not anti-social, levels of etiquette • Reward good behavior • Be careful of unintended consequences of filtering
    40. Akismet is your friend, akismet.com
    41. Peril #5: Not Working with the Web
    42. Make it easy to link and contribute
    43. (re)use existing technologies
    44. Be agile and iteratively improve.
    45. Possibility #5: With good people building things is easy
    46. Employ web professionals (not your IT support guy, a windows programmer, some guy with Frontpage)
    47. Sometimes you can get professionals by proxy
    48. Example: A Quick Mashup
    49. Question: What might be a good tool for linking a library to teenagers?
    50. • People have interests. They blog about them. They categorise those posts. • People want information about their interests. Libraries can provide this. • Provide a tool to recommend books based on blog tags.
    51. Techie Stuff • Apache - PHP - Simplepie RSS – Amazon web services • Pull data from recent blog posts, send to amazon as a search
    52. • Could be done with any system that provides simple hooks for open data. • Time to implement: 1 evening
    53. http://www.eclecticdreams.com/books/
    54. Does it avoid our perils? 1. Task not technology driven 2. Can be easily promoted elsewhere 3. Can track success via book sales 4. Is ideal discussion material 5. Built with existing systems
    55. Summary • Remember it’s about people • Look beyond your own site • Measure meaningful outcomes • Cultivate community • Work with the web
    56. Or... • Engage with people • Provide a valuable service • Cultivate community Sound familiar?

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