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Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped days any way to make innovation better-cheaper-faster is extremely desirable. But crowdsourcing is just one of the many tools we
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Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. For 2009 my
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A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It's a new invitation only social network - I do wish them luck. But for me it makes me go
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For me 2009 goes down as the year other people discovered Twitter. It went from a small and fairly intimate place to hangout to a busy bustling intersection of information, commerce and conversations. It felt almost like moving from a small town to a big and somewhat impersonal city. Some
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This year has been one of great personal challenges for me and my family. To have made it to the end of the year with all of us still on deck is a good feeling. 2009 brought home to me how truly important continued good health is, and how lucky
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2009 ranks as both the year that social media went mainstream and as the year that we saw a seismic shift in the comfortable world of traditional media. Some evidence of the former is the fact that Dell made $6.5 million in direct sales via Twitter. Further evidence is
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There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are the: 1. overall landscape in which we are operating; 2. social implications of the changes being driven by technology and how we are using it; and 3. changing
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I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed notes will be posted shortly. Social & Learning Implications http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sociallearningimplications-091215185321-phpapp01&stripped_
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