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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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Social Networking et al resources

September 21, 2007 – 10:58 am

Have you come across Common Craft Productions? They produce video materials on web 2.0 tools. Today I found a couple of new videos I hadn’t seen before. They do seem to have the knack of explaining/describing the complex in really simple terms.
Worth looking at

Social Networking in Plain English
http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking
Social Bookmarking in Plain English - focus on […]

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Facilitated Social Networking

September 20, 2007 – 11:59 am

An interesting demonstration from Elliott Masie of the Learning Consortium about how they will be using a customised social network to connect up 2,500 participants for their upcoming Learning2007 event.
They will be adding a personal touch with a designated “Connector”.
The short video uses Adobe Captivate.
http://www.learning2007.com/social

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SINs are big in edna Groups

September 12, 2007 – 12:18 pm

SINs are Special Interest Networks and, in case you are not aware of it, that is what edna Groups is all about. Pre-social networking we would probably have talked about SIGs (Special Interest Groups) but they often used only one vehicle of communication such as a bulletin board or an email discussion list.
edna Groups provides […]

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Online Social Networking and Education

September 11, 2007 – 11:23 am

“Creating and Connecting”, a National Schools Board (US) paper published in July 2007 makes very interesting reading. It creates a picture of online social networking deeply embedded in lifestyles of 9-17 year olds, parents who think it may be a good thing, and schools that are not convinced it can ever have educational significance, although […]

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danah boyd podcasts now available

August 8, 2007 – 10:57 am

The podcasts of the educationau seminar in Brisbane on social networking featuring danah boyd are now available at http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/
The podcasts now available are (in reverse order to the way you will see them on the blog)

danah boyd keynote - part 1
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/page/2/
(Click older posts at the bottom of the first page)
danah boyd keynote - part […]

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