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knowledgeGarden is a community used by 422 Faculty of Education students exploring emerging learning technologies and learning communities. It is created by people like you and I.
A human-filtered collection of the best writing from the Social Media Collective, a diverse group of bloggers, consultants, investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, and analysts who represent the web's best thinking on social media...
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Walking a neighborhood, study subjects wear a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a simple indicator of the emotional arousal in conjunction with their geographical location.
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Modern liberal societies have weak collective identities. Postmodern elites, especially in Europe, feel that they have evolved beyond identities defined by religion and nation. But if our societies cannot assert positive liberal values, they may be challe
Business narrative is a set of techniques based on the collection and interpretation of stories collected from a workplace. This technique is most effective when applied to seemingly intractable problems such as culture change, trust, innovation, leadersh
Profilactic is a digital lifestyle aggregator that makes it easy to keep up with all of the content you and your friends create online. Aggregate all your online profiles. Mash up all your created content. Aggregate your friends' content. Clip and archive
ASocial Signal, we're experts at turning site visitors into site contributors. Our practice is based on a decade of research into online participation, a decade of experience in online campaigning, and more than twenty-five years of collective wisdom
In social networks, some individuals interact with more people and more often than others. In this context, one may wonder: under which conditions are social beings willing to be cooperative? Current models proposed in the context of evolutionary game the
Recent Developments on the Internet: The common characteristic, which all these systems share, is that the approach is "bottom-up" rather than "top-down". This means that in these environments content and structure are not determined by professional, corp
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Second Life music community for musicians and music listeners. "Second Life is the future...offering endless possibilities for artists" ~ Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes
Second Life provides a unique and flexible environment for educators interested in distance learning, computer supported cooperative work, simulation, new media studies, and corporate training. Second Life provides an opportunity to use simulation in
Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”. People are learning together – every individual deals and engage in many different communities of practice. Here people negotiate and
Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
Spannerworks, a search engine marketing company, has published a handy dandy guide to social media (PDF). The ebook covers the basics of blogs, podcasts, social networks, tagging, communities and Second Life.