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Joan works and plays on the web and is happy to speak to groups or individuals about the web's communication possibilities
Category Archives: organizing_information
Why I Use More than One Social Bookmarking Service
Not that I’m paranoid (or maybe I am but I like to call it cautious skepticism) but I am always aware than any of the free web services that I use, or even ones I’ve paid for, could go belly up and my stuff on it (them) could vanish into a black hole. So when View Post
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Posted in backup, bookmark, delicious, howto, Internet_use, learning, organizing_information, PLE, references, research, share, social_bookmarking, tagging, tips, webtools
Tagged communication, delicious, Diigo, learning, PLE, social_bookmarking
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Querulous Question #1
All the brouhaha about financial game playing and our perilous financial system has brought a question to my mind: why do we talk about wages with percentages? % If someone, A, making $20,000. gets a 5% raise, that’s $1000.00 dollars and they now make $21,000. If someone, B, making $200,000. gets the same percentage, 5%, View Post
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Posted in business, communication, organizing_information, research
Tagged business, communication, WorkLiteracy
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Newspapers and Web Design
We are living in confusing times because we are living through the biggest change in human communications since the printing press, maybe the biggest change ever. You can see this in the small changes that happen as we leave an old technology for a new. It is clear that newspapers and magazines, even tv, are View Post
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Posted in business, communication, digital economy, Downes, Internet_use, organizing_information, reading_online, web2.0
Tagged communication, McLuhan, newspapers, Stephen_Downes
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Personalizing Web Access
Sometimes a bunch of experiences mash together and inspiration results. A couple of day ago I received a comment on one of my posts – #2 by Virginia Yonkers where she said “Try working on another’s computer! Just as we have idiosyncrasies in the speech, how we do math, writing (think of handwriting), we develop View Post
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Posted in business, computers, delicious, Internet_use, learning, learning 2.0, Mac, organizing_information, PLE, PLWE, social_bookmarking, tagging, technology, tips, web2.0, webtools
Tagged delicious, learning, PLE, PLWE, WorkLiteracy
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Social Maps: How the Digital People Keep Connected
This video by Loic Lemeur is intimidating, inspiring and irritating. Intimidating because he has such wide ranging use of the social media; Inspiring because I get some idea what I want to spend more time with; and Irritating because it pauses every few seconds and you have to wait for it to go on. found View Post
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Posted in communication, digital economy, Internet_use, mindmap, organizing_information, PLE, RSS, share, social_web, web2.0
Tagged socialmaps, socialmedia
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Want a Website? Try a Wiki!
It seems to me that for teachers and entrepreneurs, one of the most useful, and the easiest, web2.0 applications is the wiki. Many people who are new to web2.0 aren’t sure what a wiki is. It is an interactive website that can be edited without using HTML, just by using a set of icons, much View Post
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Posted in communication, e-learning, education, howto, learning, learning 2.0, organizing_information, share, social_web, web2.0, webtools, wiki
Tagged wiki
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