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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

This time yesterday I searched Twitter Groups to see if anyone had created an Edublog group I could join. That's the power of the social network. Alan has created a debate and posted a motion to the effect that 'Twitter groups are unnecessary'. He writes: Twitter groups are not necessary. Twitter is not Facebook.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

When you look at the keywords on the left you see things like: Social Learning (356) Social Media (411) Twitter (725) Google Wave (22) Camtasia (76) Adobe Captivate (71) Social Network (460) Now, the content set in this case are highly skewed towards innovators as compared to the topic sets being used by my past analysis (training conferences).

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched. Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

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It all started with a message on Twitter from @stephendale who stated: "A taxonomist: One who organizes information in ways that makes sense to content providers, rather than content users." Look at the trending topics column on Twitter and you will see what I mean. Taxonomies are imposed, but folksonomies are democratic.