Astonishing developments in online collaborative tools may not replace the real life "Town Hall" meetings, but they will further democratise difficult discussions. Fantastic stuff!
Farkas, M. G. (2007). What is social software? In Social software in libraries: building collaboration, communication, and community online. Information Today, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.sociallibraries.com/farkaschap1.pdf
Curtin University has moved its email and collaboration apps to Microsoft’s Cloud
students can access Curtin anywhere, anytime and that was the rationale behind it
Earlier this year, the university announced plans to migrate to a managed version of Blackboard, as well as firing up its new Vblock infrastructure from EMC, VMware and Cisco.
mission of the Library Linked Data incubator group is to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities—focusing on Linked Data—in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future.
existing building blocks of librarianship, such as metadata models, metadata schemas, standards and protocols for building interoperability and library systems and networked environments, encourage libraries to bring their content, and generally re-orient their approaches to data interoperability towards the Web, also reaching to other communities.
W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/ . Browse the documents associated with this site from a group that formed mid-2010 to look at how library data can be exposed as Linked Data.