BlogTalk 2010:Call for Papers

Call for Papers and Presentations BLOGTALK 2010 http://2010.blogtalk.net The 7th International Conference on Social Software Galway, Ireland, 26-28 August 2010 Important Dates =============== Regular paper abstracts due: 7 June 2010 (mandatory) Regular paper submissions due: 14 June 2010 Notification of regular paper acceptance or rejection: 30 June 2010 Camera-ready regular papers due: 14 July 2010…

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Emerging Technologies for Learning – Vol 3

Becta – the UK Government’s lead agency for ICT in education – has released their latest edition in the Emerging Technologies for Learning series (Volume 3). Not surprisingly, they have again selected a diverse range of authors and issues. (If you haven’t read Vol 1 or 2 – make sure you do!) In the Foreword…

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Social Media – edition 3

Trevor Cook & Lee Hopkins have just released their 3rd Social Media: or "how we stopped worrying and learnt to love communication".This is a really valuable introduction to social media in the organisational context – with an Australian perspective.I have used the previous editions with small/micro business owners – they love it – it manages…

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Learning Landscape webinar series

LTUG is presenting a series of webinars for the first half of the year that focuses on the changing learning landscape and the use of social software for learning. The first webinar will set the scene for the series:The Changing Learning LandscapeDate: 27 March 2008, 4pm-5pm (Sydney time – daylight savings time)Where: your computer –…

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2 dot zero versus 2 point zero??

So what do you say?Web "2 dot zero"? Web " 2 point zero"?Web "2 dot o"?Web " 2 point o"?or what about:"2 point naught"? Is the "point zero" group referring to decimal points? And surely is this the more correct terminology as it’s referring to release versions.. right? And are the dot zero/o mob coming…

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How the social web came to be .. Part 2!

And here it is! Part 2 from Trebor…. see below for part 1.Again – Trebor, your timing is perfect! I’m in the midst of preparing a presentation for AITD this evening…. mashing up previous presentations, updating and re-framing…. but what strikes me particularly, is that much of the work I published in 2005 (based on…

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BlogTalk 2008 Announced

The 5th international BlogTalk conference on social software has been announced!BlogTalk 2008 Where: Cork, IrelandWhen: 3 – 4 March, 2008     "The conference is designed to maintain a sustainable dialog between developers, innovative academics and scholars who study social software, practitioners and administrators in corporate and educational settings, and other general members of the…

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10 Ways to a Killer Blog

I was cruising around SlideShare today – just looking for some engaging resources – and I came across this contribution from Robert and Maryam Scoble !OK – so it’s not brand new (10 months old) but it makes some good points and with a couple of hundred students all starting up their edublogs, I think…

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