• If someone asks you what’s the best learning management system one can have…

Google, YouTube, Wikipedia…..Etc..

• All of these brands enable informal learning, grassroots knowledge management or collaboration on a local or global scale.

Presented By:- Raushan Shahi

Introduction

• Do it yourself (DIY) is a term used to describe building, modifying, or repairing of something without the aid of experts or professionals

• The phrase "do it yourself" came into common usage in the 1950s in reference to Home Improvement projects which people might choose to complete independently.

• In the 1970s, DIY spread through the North American population of college- and recent-college-graduate age groups.

Conti..

• Beyond magazines and television, the scope of home improvement DIY continued to grow online

• Sites like Newgrounds and DeviantArt allow users to post their art and receive community critique, while Instructables allows DIYers to exhibit their works in an instructional how-to format.

Applications• DIY, businesses are flourishing in product

categories like cars, drones, and rocket landers — products that were completely beyond the reach of small entrepreneurs for decades.

• There are many people designing and creating handmade product, clothes, bags and accessories, most of them consider it as an hobby.

Conti…

• IBM's Emerging Technologies Team has been researching several internet trends pertaining to the area of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Analytics

• What is DIY Analytics?A term used to describe the emergence of a range of technologies and tools that enable knowledge workers to: Explore and Harvest their own custom data by crawling, enriching, collecting and publishing web content.

• Visualize and Remix content services by discovering, assembling, wiring and sharing new rich composite web applications.

• Cooperate in the use of these web application as they meet, interact, discuss and make decisions

DIYA by TCS

• Consultancy Services (TCS) offers Do-It-Yourself-Advertising (DIYA) platform to help Media Publishers maximize gains from their SMB advertisers.

• DIYA is a fully-automated solution that enables SMB advertisers to launch ad campaigns across

• Multiple channels such as print, online, and mobile without the intervention of an intermediate agency.

Few More…..

• Facebook has enabled DIY(by easy group forming ).

• Ning was wildly popular as a DIY online community builder.

• Open source Elgg may replace Ning with a non locked-in platform, but its success remains to be seen.

•  Google Docs, the best and easiest DIY online collaboration suite.

Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009

• Create Your Own Sun Jar• The First-Timer's Guide to Building a Computer from scratch• Turn a Sharpie into a Liquid Fueled Rocket• Turn an Old Laptop into a Wall-Mounted Computer• Build a DIY Portable Air Conditioner• Turn a Bookshelf into a Secret Passage• Build Your Own Pizza Oven

Why in trend?

•One reason for DIY is that support is so easily available.•You can get help from anywhere in the world. And if you want to share someone else’s work, whatever your problem, you can find someone somewhere who has solved it.”• open source

Problem with DIY

• Inappropriate for a professional service.• Enabling DIY (do-it-yourself) on the Web

appears to be a good business model. But getting the right information can be one of the main issue

Changing Concept

• From Do It Yourself to Do It Together• Do It Together (DIT), pulling together larger

numbers of diversified and talented individuals to more and more rapidly innovate and drive new levels of performance on a continuing basis.

Coming Trend

• Enabling DIY should be a prime directive in the development of technologies for collaborative work and networked learning as well.

• Do It Together