Comments on: Social Networking behind the Firewall http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ghendrick/2008/07/08/social-networking-behind-the-firewall/ ICT Technologies, Architectures and Strategies for Elearning Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: mike seyfang http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ghendrick/2008/07/08/social-networking-behind-the-firewall/#comment-22038 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:51:44 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ghendrick/2008/07/08/social-networking-behind-the-firewall/#comment-22038 This post does a great job of bringing out the tensions between wanting to engage in online social networking and the incumbent position of control. We are clearly in that mirky transition time between and entire generation of people who are comfortable living openly online and those of us who grew up in a time when publishing digital content required some level of effort and expense. I remember during the design of me.edu the debates about the point (or otherwise) of duplicating facilities that are available for free from a number of sites. But it seems that me.edu has indeed hit a sweet spot for those in the transition. Well done and all the best for this service for Aussie educators. Fang - Mike Seyfang This post does a great job of bringing out the tensions between wanting to engage in online social networking and the incumbent position of control. We are clearly in that mirky transition time between and entire generation of people who are comfortable living openly online and those of us who grew up in a time when publishing digital content required some level of effort and expense.

I remember during the design of me.edu the debates about the point (or otherwise) of duplicating facilities that are available for free from a number of sites. But it seems that me.edu has indeed hit a sweet spot for those in the transition.

Well done and all the best for this service for Aussie educators.

Fang - Mike Seyfang

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