May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“The WebTools4u2use website is a wiki designed for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, and how they can be used in schools. It includes information on photo sharing, video tools, wikis, blogs, writing tools, presentations and so on. It’s a bright site, very informative, with sections describing the subject area, ‘5 to test drive’ and other examples.”
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This very informative website contains all you need to know about web 2.0 tools in the education arena. The fact the coming generation is already getting used to these tools will definitely help make collaborative applications the next big thing in companies.
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May
An article originally posted on blog.hbs.edu
“An organization should deploy a universal digital environment that lets members contribute and modify content in a ‘freeform’ manner—with a minimum of imposed structure in the form of workflows, decision right allocations, interdependencies, and data formats specified ex ante. This environment should contain mechanisms to let structure emerge over time; such mechanisms include linking, tagging, voting, rating, and trading, as well as algorithms that generate recommendations, assess relative popularity, etc.”
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Andrew McAfee’s vision will be ringing a loud bell for those who are experiencing Knowledge Plaza, as these are the fundamentals which lead to its initial concept and are driving its current evolution.
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May
An article originally posted on Business Week
“IBM has been encouraging social networking among its employees with in-house versions of Web 2.0 hits such as Facebook and Twitter”
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Interesting Businessweek article dedicated to the Social Networking at IBM.
“These social tools, IBM hopes, will provide a substitute for personal connections that flew away with globalization—and help to build and strengthen far-flung teams.”
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May
An article originally posted on Search Engine Land
You know what you’re doing, right? We are all rational beings. We are all blessed with huge neocortexes and use them on a regular basis. This is especially so when we do something as thoughtful as use a search engine. Our rational loop is kicked into high gear. Right?
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Very interesting post showing that most of the time, search engine users tend to click on first results unconsciously, while they will give rational explanations on why they did so. When searching for information on the Web, it really has an incidence and our advice would be to spend some more time visualizing results pages before clicking on some. They might learn lots of valuable information already. And choose more relevant results.
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May
An article originally posted on
We have just had the pleasure to spend a very constructive and stimulating couple of days with Scott Gavin, our new Knowledge Plaza enthusiast.
Scott is the man behind the great “Meet Charlie” presentation, the “Enterprise 2.0 Evangelist” blog and the Applied Trends start-up.
Wow! Did it feel good to hear him state “I have just seen the future” after a short demo of the product.
Thank you for your visit Scott! It’s amazing how much social computing can do these days but we still believe strongly in human contact.
We are all looking forward to seeing you again soon.
The Whatever team
May
An article originally posted on Phil Bradley's weblog
“Now, this is very useful. For pages that don’t have an RSS Page2RSS will basically create one for you. Simply type in the URL of the page that you’re interested in, grab the feed, add it into your favourite reader and you’re done.”
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It is a great way to monitor static pages.
Though there are many other monitoring tools available on the Web, this one doesn’t require any login, it works well, and it is just as simple as a click.
I found one limitation though: it doesn’t watch the page as regularly as it should. It only checks for updates every 4 hours (well, not so bad I assume). I thought that refreshing my feed would automatically generate an update from Page2RSS, but it is not the case…
So my recommendation: use it for pages where content is not changing too frequently.
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May
An article originally posted on Ross Mayfield's Weblog
“Privacy and security paradigms focus on controlling the flow of information. I wonder not only if this is possible. But if its the right focus. Information precedes action.” writes Ross Mayfield
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“Perhaps there is an opportunity for security systems to be more effective as a whole system when it focuses on what people do with information instead of controlling its flow.” Captivating idea developped by Ross Mayfield: enterprise can’t fully secure information flow, but shouldn’t neglict to control the information usage.
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