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“Most (US) workers use the internet or email at their jobs, but they say these technologies are a mixed blessing for them”. For the web 2.0 proponent, a rather depressing feeling about how far we’ve to go before ‘getting it’ reaches critical mass – difficult to take any refuge in thoughts that we do things in a more modern way in Europe, GB, still less in the NHS…
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The Knowledge and Innovation Network at Warwick Business School collaborated with some of the world’s leading organisations to benchmark their networks and communities of practice against other organisation and sectors.
Archive for the 'links' Category
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“Gartner maintains that users need a well-defined purpose of appropriate scope around which to mobilize and that a good purpose for a social application has seven key characteristics:…”
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My Review is about the needs of children and young people. It is about preserving their right to take the risks that form an inherent part of their development by enabling them to play video games and surf the net in a safe and informed way.
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“Crowdsourcing is the answer. It is inevitable in the Web 2.0 world of bringing people together. Below is a list of 14 online tools that harness the talents of groups to help you produce a product, concept, business. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but a nice start that we plan to build on.”
Be sure to check the comments too as there are some good additional suggestions there
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The Framework uses a wheel to illustrate how the Framework can be used to help learners work out their own individual learning plan and goals. The curriculum is represented as concentric circles on a wheel to act as a visual reminder for tutors and learners of what is available to be taught and learned in adult literacy and numeracy and the principles that should inform them. The wheel is available online and there is also a CD-ROM version, as well as tutorials to help you use this resource.
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Handy summary of leading tools, but also makes some useful points about community formation in the enterprise setting, and refs some other work. Diagrams too
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looks like a kind of podcast central? Wonder how searchable it is? But there again, there’s something to be said for the interview (so long as you can stop the tape, go back a bit and replay to be sure you heard something). Good for context, explanation, tone of voice, in comparison with the raw text nugget
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Timelines! I love ‘em! and the SIMILE project was a superb piece of public service. So it’s really good to see a thorough tutorial on how to set one up.
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excellent howto re combining twitter with other web 2.0 information resources, to create a feed/stream of really useful information in e.g. emergencies.
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programme + speaker slides from a day conference on Txting4Health – what it says on the tin, really
Return to this to browse through the ppts
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More from Patricia Anderson (bless her), this time on twitter for health & healthcare. V handy presentation
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amazing round-up (URLs galore) of twitter examples in the health domain, and a short summary of both potential benefits and limitations to be aware of.
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some examples of large organisations using sns for business. Some use in-house versions of sns, others go direct to apps like FB. Some info on what people do with the apps, too
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useful case examples – though they all seem to be private sector, so a wee bit more transposition needed to public sector context. Should be doable though!
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The scale of British water consumption and its impact around the world is revealed in a new (WWF) report today, which warns of the hidden levels needed to produce food and clothing.
