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Saved by 96 people (-3 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-10-05
- Nadine_hope on 2009-10-22 - Tags education , web2.0 , elearning , classroom
- Maurice24 on 2009-10-21 - Tags education , web2.0 , blog , classroom
- Tyrelc_hope on 2009-10-20 - Tags education , web2.0 , podcasting , classroom
- Ayana_hope on 2009-10-20 - Tags edublog , elearning , classroom
- Jodit_hope on 2009-10-19 - Tags education , blog , web2.0 , edublogs
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Highlighted by cathymath
game-space as soon as possible.
Ross picks up on the potential for what's to come in his blogged summary of Wednesday's briefing and stakeholder event in Glasgow, stressing the potential that starts in 38minutes for companies and individuals to club together with their skills and aptitudes, creating projects that with the traditional boundaries and disaggregation of the creative industries would not be possible: “There’s more insulation on Scottish agencies than on most hot water tanks”...
Highlighted by tatterdemaliot
Turning connections into collaborations
38minutes is an interesting example of what small amounts of money - or no amounts of money - can do while creating significant impact. A few people have sneered (via email or even to my face) about the perceived 'cheapness' of using Ning as a platform for connecting and collaborating, but the impact of this network, like all others, is not to be found in its code but in the people who choose to devote some time and effort to collaborating on it. And for that, 38minutes has been a roaring success.
In Scotland and Northern Ireland we see a fairly disaggregated creative economy, the elements of which have rarely connected with each other beyond cliquey friendships and haphazard arrangements.
Highlighted by tatterdemaliot
Social networking sites have three core structures that make them work:
1. Profile
When we enter a room we tend to take some thought about decorating ourselves: what we wear, do we put on that tie...? Online we are an IP address, a rather undecoratable unappealing code. Therefore, where we create a SNS profile we're taking some care to create a presentation of ourselves within a space. Bedroom culture is the same, but on social networks it's amplified.
Highlighted by tatterdemaliot
3. The Wall
Comments, testimonials, the wall... in the early days of SNSes, people spoke in the third person about their friends (and still do on LinkedIn, inhabited by older professionals). Later, it began to be used as a space for conversation that complimented other places where conversation was going on (IM, chat).
Looking at it as a stream of text one could be mistaken as meaningless "how are you", "fine", "you?", "OK"...
What's going on is "public social grooming": it's a way to upkeep your social status as friend which, after all, is only a check box at the beginning of the online Friendship.
Highlighted by tatterdemaliot
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