Enjoying myself at the UCISA conference at Celtic Manner. Microsoft just announced Office 365 for staff as well as students on a no fee basis, including Sharepoint and Lync as well as Exchange. This is a game changer. Whole community could have integrated team collaboration sites, email, calendar, web conferencing, instant messaging and presence. Can't see how we can resist. There's just the little matter of the anarchic explosion of information that will happen when 26,000 users get hold of this...
Have also seen something today that could help. Idol from Autonomy does semantic search across multiple information silos - and that includes audio and video sources. There is serious power here. Could we stop worrying about meta data and let this engine do the work? I'd like to see it running across an organically grown Sharepoint environment.
And I'm wondering if we'll need a VLE for much longer. Give it a couple of years.
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