"Für den Doktoranden der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Michael Schonhardt erweist sich die semioffizielle Wissenschaftskommunikation über Social Media als fruchtbar. So können schon kleine Funde aus dem laufenden Forschungsprozess von Jedermann veröffentlicht werden. Darin sieht der Mediävist eine Parallele zur Kommunikationsstruktur der frühen Geschichtswissenschaft."
CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.
BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes which extends WordPress MU and brings social networking features to a new or existing installation.
Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:41
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