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Ray's Personal Learning Environment

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Intranet personal home page (wiki). Approximately 100 content feeds. Approximately 200 content feeds. Wiki pages. Beagle desktop search. Physical Space. Office (through employer). Home office. Local public library. Bicycling in local area. Reflection. Meditation. Writing and Drawing. View Your Mind (VYM). Inside firewall.

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Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective

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Bookmarking / Tagging Tool Ive just recently switched to Yahoos MyWeb 2.0 Also, since Yahoo acquired del.icio.us, my guess is that MyWeb is the way Yahoo will be going since it is already integrated with other aspects of their social bookmarking. Heres what you are missing that you get with Yahoos MyWeb 2.0:

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

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Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Bill Hartzer

In other words, they aggregated all of the question and answer sites’ content into one large database. It appears that Ask.com is also using content from other sites for this question and answer database. Ask.com’s question and answer database not only contains answers from Q & A sites like Yahoo!

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Micro Persuasion: Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center

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How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo Alerts). or Google Reader shared feed through Yahoo Alerts. Ive used Yahoo! Its not easy to just up and leave something youve used that long, but Yahoo! » Yahoo! Using Gmail as a Massive Database. Mails new beta is a bust.

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Can’t Find Your Voice? Find and Share Hidden Treasures Instead

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Wikis: Wikis and online encyclopedias offer valuable information usually written by experts in their fields. In addition, Wikis usually contain lists of other reliable resources. Try Bing and Yahoo as alternative search engines. By day, she is also a content and SEO specialist for Your Web Pro, LLC. In West Texas.

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Wired Campus: Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy, Report Says - Chronicle.com

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Campus Piracy Company Watch Distance Education Gadgets Leadership Legal Troubles Libraries Offbeat Open Access Research Search Engines Security Social Networking Student Life Supercomputing Teaching TechForum2008 Video Virtual Worlds Wikis. Think of the web as a huge library, with much of its content not having been peer reviewed and edited.

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