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The changing Web

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Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). What is the extent of the capability of social software to encourage a culture of sharing and collaboration?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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The Social Web is comprised of software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. As with most other technology innovations, Web 2.0 Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Kamel Boulos, M.

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EDEN saw play.

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Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Deborah Everhart (Georgetown University, USA) followed, with a session on social bookmarking, using Blackboard MLE tools.

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