Joitske Hulsebosch blogged about the potential of using blogs with communities of practices (Cop’s). Joitske gives four very useful ways in which blogs can support CoP’s but I just want to focus on one of them. Quoting Joitske:
“A weblog with summaries of discussions can be a repository for the community. An example is the weblog [...]
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I want to conclude my blog summary from the presentation I gave last week on tagging and the enterprise. The previous three entries should be read in conjunction with this instalment, if you haven’t followed the story so far…
I used IBM’s dogear as an example of an enterprise using tagging within the firm. However, instead of me explaining all about [...]
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I was reading the Green Guide in today’s Melbourne Age. In the Websights section I noticed a short paragraph about a service, still in beta, that combines photos, video, and music into a professional looking multimedia product.
The service is from Animoto and this is what they are about: “Each video is a fully customized orchestration of [...]
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Just a quick post on this news story I read today about Nobel prize winner for literature, Doris Lessing, and her tirade against the internet.
Doris Lessing is one of my favourite novelists, The grass is singing being a particular favourite of mine. And I have a lot of respect for her views on quality literature and [...]
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I was alerted to this article from The Guardian (thanks, Gerry) on word farms - “The growing number of websites that mix and match low-quality articles produced by amateurs in order to generate traffic”.
The article raises a good question: how important is content or marketing in driving revenues on the web? Any thoughts, please make a comment.
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Today I received a magazine that I subscribe to dated December 2007, and it’s still October. The future is coming quickly enough without magazines taking a couple of months off my life!
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