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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: social_bookmarking
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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Social Bookmarking – Diigo
Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social View Post
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Posted in blogging, bookmark, delicious, e-learning, howto, references, research, Search, share, socialmedia, social_bookmarking, tagging, Uncategorized
Tagged delicious, Diigo, research, socialmedia, social_bookmarking, WorkLiteracy
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MagNet '09
I GO-trained into Toronto today to attend some sessions at the MagNet ’09 Conference. I was really impressed with the excellent level of organization and with the high quality of the two sessions I attended, a session with a panel of literary agents answering questions and a session with Harry van Bommel on self-publishing. Both View Post
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Posted in communication, PowerPoint, research, Search, Skitch, social_bookmarking, tagging, tips, webtools, Zotero
Tagged MagNet09, PowerPoint, research, Toronto
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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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del.icio.us – Effective Social Bookmarking
One of my favorite aspects of the web is the ability to link to other sites. My favorite part of being able to link to other sites is the capacity to store, organize, and re-find those sites using tagging, and social bookmarking. (If you aren’t familiar with these terms and actions, I’ve linked backup information View Post
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Posted in delicious, social_bookmarking, tips
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Tagging – For Organizing Information
One of the most important aspects of the web today is a way of organizing information called tagging (or, on Blogger, labelling). You could say that tagging is the child of alphabetical indexing – a post-Gutenberg information management invention – and hyperlinking – a web networking development. You can see what this looks like in View Post
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Posted in blogging, delicious, folksonomy, indexing, labeling, organizing_information, printing, social_bookmarking, tagging, teaching writing, web2.0
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Understanding Social Bookmarking
commoncraft has done it again! Another very brief, very clear, virtually whimsical video explaining web 2.0. This time on social bookmarking, showing how it works with del.icio.us. Enjoy! Subscribe
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Posted in commoncraft, delicious, social_bookmarking
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