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Category Archives: social networking


Defining your digital footprint

January 7, 2008 – 9:29 am

A recent article from Pew/Internet about online identity management called Digital Footprints (pdf) really hits the mark for me. Their research found that while internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint, few actually monitor their online presence with great regularity.
Where we have been often lingers long after the project, the conference, or […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, networking, me.edu.au, digital footprint | Comments (0)

Where are we going in 2008 - edna workshops

January 4, 2008 – 9:06 am

This morning I was pointed by an article in the OLDaily (Stephen Downes) to Gary Woodill’s blog titled Ten Learning Technologies to Transform Training in 2008. Gary lists the technologies that he will attempt to make the focus of his 2008 workshops and webinars. The first that he lists is Technologies of collaboration. Gary thinks […]

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New Year reflections

January 3, 2008 – 10:03 am

The New Year always seems to lend itself to casting your mind back over the past 12 months and thinking about what you’ve achieved and what you need to do better.
What I’ve been thinking about is how my online life has changed, how much more time I’m making for it, and reflecting on what perhaps […]

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Making Online Communities work

December 29, 2007 – 10:28 am

This is a topic I’ve already written about and given workshops on. But all my writings and presentations so far have really been based on the assumption that the community has been set up by someone who has a purpose in mind and who will be a driving force behind the community. Most communities that […]

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Feedback coming in about me.edu.au

December 27, 2007 – 1:11 pm

Australian educators playing around with the beta release of http://me.edu.au are impressed with its capabilities and potential. By Christmas Eve over 1500 people had begun setting up their pages. Nick Lothian, one of the team behind the project has advised in his educationau blog of a couple of extra capabilities including the ability to […]

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Dealing with those multiple personas

December 22, 2007 – 10:28 am

I have just read a posting by Pru Mitchell that was a response to my earlier posting about multiple personas. Pru is concerned with managing multiple edna personas. She, like many of us, has at least two edna logins that perform different functions. They are based on different email addresses. But with the advent of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, community building, blogs, edna Groups, me.edu.au | Comments (1)

Why reading a blog changes your behaviour/thinking

December 22, 2007 – 10:02 am

One of the things that I can say about blogs is that I read many more of them now than I did 12 months ago. There are a number of blogs that I monitor via an RSS reader. I have one running on my computer at work, and another on my computer at home. I […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, informal learning, incidental learning, networking, blogs, web 2.0 | Comments (2)

How many personas do you have?

December 19, 2007 – 7:07 am

It seems to me that one of the strange features of the new online social networking world is that we are constantly re-inventing ourselves. I have already spent quite a bit of time setting “myself” up on edna’s latest venture me.edu at http://me.edu.au. You can find me at http://me.edu.au/p/ksmith
I wasn’t very inventive with my identity/name- […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, community building, blogs, web 2.0, me.edu.au, myedna | Comments (2)

me.edu.au goes live

December 17, 2007 – 12:23 pm

edna has released a new and exciting service for Australian educators in beta format at http://me.edu.au
The new system provides an online professional network where educators can identify their professional interests, join communities with similar interests, and view and respond to the activities of their online colleagues. It incorporates features of social networking sites to build […]

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Why the title?

November 30, 2007 – 3:38 pm

I’ve been asked to explain the title of my blog “You Are Never Alone”. The first time I ever used the title was for the first presentation I ever gave at an ICT conference, ACEC2000. The paper that I wrote was really about the usefulness, even necessity, of belonging to supportive professional email lists.
I had […]

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