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How To Upload Your Video Clips To Multiple Video Sharing Sites: Hey!Spread

Written by on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 in video publishing, social software, social media, syndication, Video - Internet Television, Social Networking, Online Marketing, Video-Internet Television, Video Production, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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To upload your video clips to multiple video sharing sites has been the ultimate dream of many independent online publishers, as the exposure and visibility provided by posting unique, quality clips is among the most effective new ways to draw traffic up for most any a web site. To surf the word of mouth wave, and achieve viral visibility, your video content need to be uploaded to as many publishing video sharing sites as possible and a new online web-based service, from the superprolific guys at Particle-S, makes this process super easy and completely free. As the Internet does not offer one unique video distribution site to publish and expose your video content, as an independent web video publisher you …

Social Software: Challenges, Risks, Issues And How To Confront Them (Part IV)

Written by on Friday, June 8th, 2007 in social software, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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Social software is a concept that groups all those web-based means of interaction (blogs, wikis, instant messengers) that enable collaboration while emphasizing the importance of humans over the tools they use to communicate. Photo credit: Pathathai Chungyam In the first excerpt from the extensive research done by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework the topic of social software was introduced and its impact on the lives of the individuals and organizations analyzed. In the second excerpt I prepared and published the research focused social software growing influence on learning and teaching techniques in the era of the Net Generation. Finally, in the third article excerpted from this outstanding research report, possible future uses of social software were analyzed and dissected. Today …

Web Annotation And Markup - Tools And Services: A Mini-Guide

Written by on Friday, June 1st, 2007 in social bookmarking, social software, social media, web applications, Online Collaboration, Presentation, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.

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Web annotation tools and services make it easy for you to add notes, highlights and visual diagrams on the web pages that you visit, just as you might do with pencil or pens on a real book or journal article. Photo credit: ThinkVitamin.com If you want to mark up the websites you visit with notes and ideas, web annotation tools give you a simple means of doing so. This can be a great way to add your commentary to web content for friends, colleagues or students, not to mention a useful mean for groups to share their thoughts in a direct and easy-to-reference way. In this mini-guide I have gathered together a selection of web annotation tools and services, comparing …

Social Software And Its Possible Future Uses (Part III)

Written by on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in social software, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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Social software is a concept that embraces the whole world of those Internet-based interaction systems (i.e. wikis, blogs, instant messengers, podcasts) that allow distance collaboration and communication by emphasizing the richness of the human potential instead of the technologies that make these exchanges possible. Photo credit: Alexandre Stolbstov In the first article dedicated to this topic we analyzed the phenomenon of social software and its impact on the lives of the individuals and organizations while in the second one we measured its growing influence on learning and teaching in the era of the Net Generation. We learnt how positively disruptive social software can be when it meets traditional learning and working environments by fostering a new image of individuals (in …

Social Software And Its Contribution To Teaching And Learning - A Report By Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Part II)

Written by on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 in Online Collaboration, social software, teaching, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Independent Publishing, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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"Social software enables people to rendez-vous, connect or collaborate through computer mediated discussion and to form online communities. Broadly conceived, this term could encompass older media such as mailing lists but some would restrict its meaning to more recent software genres such as blogs and wikis." (Source: Wikipedia) Photo credit: Rob Marmion In the first part of this article we introduced social software and analyzed how it impacts individuals and organizations. We learnt how the technologies universally identified with the name of "social software" (e.g. blogs, wikis, podcasts) are rapidly changing the way in which communication happens - both online and offline - by celebrating and fostering the power of "human" interaction, instead of the technology that makes it possible. …

Social Software: What It Is And How It Impacts Individuals And Organizations - A Report By Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Part I)

Written by on Thursday, May 17th, 2007 in social software, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing.

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Social software is whatever software or online network that enables users to interact and share knowledge in a social dimension, emphasizing the human potential instead of the technology that makes the exchange possible. Photo credit: Mikael Damkier Social software is everywhere: blogs, instant messengers, wikis, collaborative editing tools are the most representative expressions of this concept. The role of these technologies has become more and more important in today's world and keeps on reshaping the way in which collaboration happens on and outside the Internet. In a recently published video-interview with Teemu Arina, the young Finnish researcher pointed out the enormous potential of social software when it is adopted in the informal learning process and also within the new generation …

Online Publishing Trends: Is There A Social Media Bubble?

Written by on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in social media, content aggregation, social software, media, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Online Collaboration, Independent Publishing.

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Social media is booming, but is all of the activity surrounding its growth a precursor to a dot-com-like bubble burst? Photo credit: Chekov While in some ways investors may overextend themselves on the social media trend as much as any other social media is growing to become a trend that is based on countless tiny bubbles rather than the huge risk-takers that we\’re used to seeing in the media limelight. At is core social media is about human communications returning to normal levels of discourse that may have been forgotten in the push to cash in on electronic content - and that will require more sophisticated monetization models than those being pursued by most media companies. Here more details: …