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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Social bookmarking can solve all of those problems and bring you additional benefits you probably haven’t even thought of. Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. TLDR: If you’re short on time grab this quick start guide to social bookmarking. What is Social Bookmarking?

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. and Purdon, M.

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Curating the Content Overload

OpenSesame

If I were a venture capitalist, I’d invest in applications and companies that attack the problem of curating content. Likewise, now that content creation and delivery systems like Blogger , Flickr or WordPress are free, diverse and accessible, content creators find their videos, photos, writing and ideas lost in the content sea.

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Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective?

The eLearning Coach

Before you just place any old photo into an online course or informational web site, it’s a good idea to think about whether a realistic graphic is required. In the image below, the photo on the left has the greatest fidelity. A minimalist approach could avoid this problem. Share this on del.icio.us. Tweet This!

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Social Network Operating System

Tony Karrer

At the same time, credible information about your social graph is embedded all over the web: in the carbon-copy fields of your emails; in attendee lists from conferences you attend; in tagged Flickr photos of you with people you know; in your comments on their blog posts; and in jointly authored papers and presentations published online.

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Mark Oehlert

This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from UX Week 2007. My latest additions to del.icio.us. Here are some of my main del.icio.us I think the big take-away from this session is that she began with a problem, people taking the wrong medicine, and then selected as her starting point - the user - not the system.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

One way to learn and solve problems more effectively is by visualizing information. These diagrams can be used during brainstorming sessions, as a way to explain concepts, for information organization and for creative problem solving. A small photo or drawing of the participant is then displayed around the media.