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Building a New Kind of Cruise Community

Waxing UnLyrical

So we spent months creating an entirely new CMS (content management system) from scratch – WordPress didn’t have the firepower. We replaced the cruise lines’ over-the-top marketing come-ons with helpful, informed consumer journalism. People trust recommendations from peers and strangers over established experts.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). In universities, VLEs often act as secure gateways to digital indexes and research journals. Most ePortfolios are intended for document management, retrieval and presentation.

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