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New Study shows the Surprising Power of Wikipedia in Science

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New Study shows the Surprising Power of Wikipedia in Science. It’s perhaps the greatest scientific repository that you’ve never considered. A new MIT working paper released and featured on Wikimedia Monthly Research Showcase demonstrates the surprising scientific power of Wikipedia. Read the full paper here on SSRN.

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Personal knowledge management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The idea is individuals use their blogs to capture ideas, opinions or thoughts and this voicing will encourage cognitive diversity, promote free exchanges away from a centralized policed knowledge repository that is additional to ordinary work. About Wikipedia. Jump to: navigation , search.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

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Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. This is great for sharing code, developing a web site, or for storing research findings. Google Wave can also be used for customer service, web site/blog creation, an idea repository, etc. What do you think will be seen in 2010?

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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The types are: Distributed Research Centers, Shared Instruments, Community Data Systems, Open Community Contribution Systems, Virtual Communities of Practice, Virtual Learning Communities, and Community Infrastructure Projects. In particular, our research has highlighted three types of barriers. Second, scientists work independently.