Our superficial poll closes, and another opens
Your votes on last week’s poll mirrored the thoughts I had on the question: you gave a slight edge (2 votes) to the statement that looks matter in our profession “just as much as they do in society in general.” The “just as much” statement got 16 votes, but not surprisingly almost as many people (14) thought that looks were “less important than in society in general.” We got some interesting comments on this question when it opened last week–anyone surprised by the results?
I can’t wait to see your thoughts on this week’s question: What “web 2.0″ service do you think has the most potential for archives?” Your choices are: blogs, Flickr (and other image sharing sites), audio and video podcasting, social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), Second Life, wikis or other (please explain). Note that on this poll you can select more than one answer, but please try to be selective. All of the services have potential, but which one do you think has the most?
Surveys, Web 2.0 & Archives | Kate T. | 
July 21, 2008 8:35 am
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By Heidi, July 21, 2008 @ 10:45 am
This was a tough call for me, since I’m using many of those tools (but mostly for personal reasons). I guess as a career Lone Arranger so far, I have high hopes for the social networking tools, so I chose that option.
By Arian Ravanbakhsh, July 21, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
Following instructions, I voted for one that I think has most potential – Wikis. I believe Wikis have the most potential because, as Archives UK has demonstrated, you build and release the wiki and people will come. The thing is, I can also see circumstances where social networks would have the most impact, especially as Heidi alludes to above in a long arranger situation or an academic setting where all the students are using the Facebook platform. Heck, or even Orkut, if we are talking about Brazil.
Personally, I’d like to see more archivists embrace podcasts and Internet broadcasting. That’s a great way to get information about the collections out on the ‘net. Or even something simple like a “research question of the week” kind of thing would be a great promotional tool for any archival institution. There’s so much untapped material here, some of which already resides in collections and has been digitized. Just get it out there.