Van Deventer, Martha JPienaar, H2008-11-242008-11-242008-10van Deventer, M and Pienaar, H. 2008. Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond. 10th Internet Librarian International Conference, London, 16 October 2008, pp 32http://hdl.handle.net/10204/262310th Internet Librarian International Conference, London, October 2008In this paper the authors intend to show how they made use of a technology demonstrator strategy to build an integrated, light weight, virtual research environment (VRE) and convince executives that they need to support the initiative. Doing a quick search on Google or the Wikipedia very soon points out that technology demonstrators are generally associated with warfare, very expensive equipment and risk of loss of life. The authors believe however, that demonstrators are also very powerful when librarians have to do battle with executives to find appropriate funding for projects based on Web 2.0 technologiesenVirtual research environmentTechnologyGoogle searchWikipediaWeb 2.0 technologiesConference PresentationVan Deventer, M. J., & Pienaar, H. (2008). Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2623Van Deventer, Martha J, and H Pienaar. "Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2623Van Deventer MJ, Pienaar H, Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2623 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Van Deventer, Martha J AU - Pienaar, H AB - In this paper the authors intend to show how they made use of a technology demonstrator strategy to build an integrated, light weight, virtual research environment (VRE) and convince executives that they need to support the initiative. Doing a quick search on Google or the Wikipedia very soon points out that technology demonstrators are generally associated with warfare, very expensive equipment and risk of loss of life. The authors believe however, that demonstrators are also very powerful when librarians have to do battle with executives to find appropriate funding for projects based on Web 2.0 technologies DA - 2008-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Virtual research environment KW - Technology KW - Google search KW - Wikipedia KW - Web 2.0 technologies LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2008 T1 - Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond TI - Advance & attack: technology demonstrator to the rescue.....and beyond UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2623 ER -