 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
14 Nov 2006 developerWorks Community Programs manager Rawn Shah talks about a pioneering university course on Web 2.0 and online communities.
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 Rawn Shah manages Community Programs for developerWorks and talks about the growing interest in online communities and a ground-breaking course he helped to launch and is co-teaching at the University of Arizona.
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As Community Programs manager, Shah focuses on how to develop greater interaction between our members through the many community services we have, such as blogs, forums, user groups, wikis, and other services. He's been a network administrator, a systems programmer, a Web project manager, an author, a technology writer, and an editor. He survived the dot-com days in his own startup before becoming a full-time writer and later joining IBM® as an editor. In his spare time, he is also a student and teacher of Japanese sword fighting.
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Duration
15:51
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| Interview |  Rawn Shaw | 7MB | HTTP |
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Podcast credits | 
| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. His other work has included reporter and director for programming featured on Public Radio International, freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and songwriter/musician. |
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