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More Ways to Engage with the 2008 Horizon Report

Posted February 4th, 2008 by Alan Levine
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Following up on our press release on the announcement of the 2008 Horizon Report, we have many more Horizon resources and ways for you to actively engage with the process of the Horizon Project.

We have tracked a steady flow of downloads of the report in PDF format and continuing our exploration of web publishing, today we are excited to share a new web version for the 2008 Horizon Report using the CommentPress format. Developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, CommentPress is a template for the WordPress platform that provides a functionality for readers to post comments at the paragraph level. You can read and add to the report by commenting at http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008.

If you missed the Horizon 2008 presentation NMC made at the EDUCAUSE ELI Conference, there is a full length video recording on the EDUCAUSE web site. For some inside details on how the presentation was planned, including an unexpected venture into Second Life, see CogDogBlog's story on Horizon Report 2008 at ELI- Dog Bites Elwood.

In the second half of the EDUCAUSE session, the 100+ audience in attendance had the opportunity to contribute ideas to the Horizon Research Agenda. And anyone else can by posting directly to the area of the Horizon Project wiki set up for this effort.

Another part of the wiki our community can contribute to is the discussion of the seven Horizon metatrends, developed form an analysis of the last 5 years of the Horizon Project.

As you go about the web in your daily routine, keep the Horizon Project in mind, and if you use del.icio.us for social bookmarking, please use the tag hz08 plus the special tags for each horizon. Learn more about the Horizon 2008 tags...

In a later session on "Data Visualization" at EDUCAUSE ELI, George Siemens and Cyprien Lomas demonstrated the use of IBM's Many Eyes to analyze written documents for word use and context. George speculated what we might learn from this by submitting the 5 years of the Horizon Report.

By the time we returned from San Antonio, blogger Chris Lott had already done this! Look at the word use cloud that comes from the 5 years of Horizon Reports:

We look forward to seeing how you and your organization contribute to the Horizon process.