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Curation is Not Aggregation

Firebelly

Curation is the big new buzzword this year in social media circles — collecting information in a strategic amassing of selected information that’s presented in a new way to draw out the subtleties and patterns that might not otherwise be noticed when looking at the group in toto. Are you a curator or an aggregator?

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. A wiki provides groups with collaborative publishing and work- space. Great for group editing documents or projects. Private Groups. Create a group too! Google.com. www.mashable.com.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Shel cites a brief published by the Aberdeen Group , titled Web 2.0, I divided my group of about 25-30 people into 6 teams (it was supposed to be 8, but apparently we had problems counting) and gave each team a deck of cards and a learning scenario. Week 4-- Aggregators and RSS Feeds. Week 3-- Blogs. Week 5-- Wikis.

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Confessions of a CKO: What I Should Have Done

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Meetings, training courses, presentations and other group activities are largely a waste of time -- theyre badly managed and often unnecessary, but we participate because were told we have to. Many business-people spend up to 30% of their time in group activities scheduled by others. "We Social Software Group. Kirsten Osolind.

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Managing in the Virtual or Network(ed) Organization: News, views, and reviews of Work 2.0 tools, apps and practices

Buzz Marketing for Technology

HTML-Tags: On June 25th, AppGap contributor Jenny Ambrozek and others came together for a great discussion of how businesses large and small are experimenting with Facebook groups and other social networking tactics to grow awareness, build buzz, gain insights and increase sales. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Recent Entries.

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How to Save the World

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Software Group. category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually. reading lists/aggregations of material on specific, leading-edge subjects that writers can use as resource material. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. -->.

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Several advanced students (2-3 from each group) participated in this experiment. Also, your work on using start pages for learning is quite interesting, though I prefer to stick to old-school by using my mail reader (Thunderbird) for syndication/aggregation. Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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