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Entries from August 2007

Is podcasting dead?

August 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Alex Iskold in a recent article in Read/Write Web suggests that podcasting has not really made it into our daily lives and that it is on the wane. The podcasting trend reached its peak in mid-2005, about 12 month after it first started to be popular, while podcasts themselves appear to have peaked around the [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · changing culture · podcast · podcasting

Moving things on – replacing a static Intranet with a wiki

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Nathan Wallace describes in a recent blog posting how his organisation changed the culture of the company by moving away from a traditional, static Intranet site to a wiki. In doing so, they were able to transform communication, information flow and knowledge management within the organisation.
The success of the project was due partly to [...]

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Tags: Technology · changing culture · wiki

Web 2.0 tools – use ‘em or lose ‘em

August 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Some universities are starting to realise the potential of Web 2.0 tools not only for engaging students once they are on their programmes but also for recruiting them in the first place. This article by Candace Lombardi in CNET News describes how the effective and imaginative use of these tools is giving these institutions [...]

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Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0