Category: social media
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Enterprise Wiki
OK, lets kill email. Here is an article for the Age iin Melbourne about enterpirse wikis. Sean Killeen works the wiki way. Like many modern executives Mr Killeen – the head of global product management at Australian hearing implant maker Cochlear – gets hundreds of emails a day, half of which are destined for the…
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BBC and YouTube
The British Broadcasting Corp. began showing excerpts from its news and entertainment programs on the YouTube video-sharing website on Friday, becoming the first international broadcaster to ink a major deal with the Google-owned portal (from the Age, link)
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Fast Facts Found Online
This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today. There is a small quote from myself on the use of Wikipedia for research. David Adams talks to four Australians who have helped to build the collaborative online giant that is Wikipedia. NEXT time you’re sitting at the computer – it may even be as you’re…
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TextGrid and e-science
TextGrid is an exemplar e-science model from Germany. I plan to write a case study about this particular project, so I will keep you informed. TextGrid aims to create a community grid for the collaborative editing, annotation, analysis and publication of specialist texts. It thus forms a cornerstone in the emerging e-Humanities…(link).
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What is the International Network of E-Communities?
Also see the ‘Delclaration of Open Networks’. The INEC Declaration on Open Networks outlines the imperative need for Open Networks and the benefits they are to provide to communities. In ten articles, the open networks are presented as the network which best caters the needs of signatory communities. Open networks must be operator-neutral, symmetric, are…
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What is the Deliberative Democracy Consortium?
Central to our work is the conviction that the outcomes of deliberation result in qualitatively better, more lasting decisions on policy matters. Participation in such forums is a central to democratic renewal. Essentially, our view is that democratic deliberation is a powerful, transformational experience for everyone involved–citizens and leaders alike–which can result in attitudinal shifts…