DyKnow seem to supply some collaborative notetaking software. It looks interesting, but, though I can find several places telling me that the *client* is free, I can’t seem to find the cost of the server – which it seems to need! There are other tools that I have found, that are free; for example: Google…
Category: Communication and Communities
Research on Social Network Sites
danah boyd has posted a great list of research into Social Network sites. She claims it’s a “start”, but it’s a pretty good start, and more than enough to keep me going for a while!…
Blogs and Community
Nancy White has a wonderful set of 5 posts (linked from this last one) discussing the ideas of blogs and community. She’s divided blogs into 3 main types; Blog Centric; Topic Centric and Community Centric. A Blog Centric blog is essentially what this is, I’ve started it, I contribute, and on the odd occasion someone…
Women don't blog … oh yes we do!
On my way to Blog.ac.uk at the start of the month, I was reading the Guardian & came across Men used to go fishing when they wanted to get away from ‘the wife’ and swap smutty jokes. Now they take up blogging. Talking to some of the other delegates, they expressed surprise, one commenting that…
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
New Scientist reports on plans in the US to start to tap into all the information that people are putting in the public domain, via social networking sites. New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people…
blogwithoutalibrary.net
LIS course in Social Software This course looks like it’s going to be very interesting, I hope that at least some of the materials end up online – I’ve been looking at various courses as we start to plan out the new online MSc. The Opencourseware initiative has been good for that; I rather like…
Social software and learning
Futurelab – Research – Publications I’ve got a lot of posts sitting in the “draft” section of my blog – i.e. things that looked interesting at the time, but I didn’t have time to do anything about them. This was one (luckily I’ve found the .pdf version, as I’m still not fond of reading on…
Google Notebook
Google Notebook… It’s Google’s latest idea. Like many of their other ideas, they’ve taken something that already exists (in this case, Firefox’s QuickNote extension – and many others for example). They’ve then improved it; at least, I think that they have; others aren’t so sure. The advantages as far as I can see it are…
Audio Discussion Board.
Susan Sedro has an example Vaestro board up; it’s a board where you can record your thoughts. She’s posted the question “what’s your favourite children’s book?” It reads the whole thread once started, though I do have a few concerns re. accessibility. The poster only has to leave a written comment if they choose. While…
Email as collaboration.
Central Desktop Blog have made two posts about various aspects of email as a collaboration tool. The articles concentrate on the “good” & “bad”, though the comments tend to cover both! Central Desktop themselves market a wiki tool for collaboration, though say that a lot of their internal communication is email based….