Wayne, Being slow and old, please give an example of this. I am on LinkedIn and want to try new stuff. Gene
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > We have received a number of requests from members of the WIkiEducator > family to consider implementing a feature that would enable users to > bookmark their favourite WikiEducator pages on various social networking > sites. A rough consensus of the WikiEducator techie list agrees that this > is a good idea - -as one member put it: "you pretty much can't survive > without one these days." WE have responded to your request :-). > > We propose running a trial period to test how this works for WikiEducator > and whether or not users like the feature. Give it a try - - you will find > the share button in the navigation bar on the left hand side of your screen. > > > Please note that this is an external commercial service operated by > AddThis.com (http://www.addthis.com/) and they do not necessarily > subscribe to our values of open education. That said, the copyright of the > metadata of social tags is a personal decision of the individual user -- we > don't see any conflict with the core OER mission of the WIkiEducator > project. > > Also note that the terms of service provided by AddThis.com could > potentially result in advertising in the future. WikiEducator will NOT carry > advertising on our site and in the event that advert messages appear on the > WE site from this service, we will need discontinue the button and find > alternate solutions. Users should also note when using this service, you > will fall under the Privacy Policy of AddThis.com and not the OER Foundation > privacy policy - -see (http://www.addthis.com/privacy). It is important > that users are aware of this fact that when using the service, for instance > personal data like your Userpage can be held by the external service > provider. > > Give this a try and let us know what you think. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- With Best Wishes for an Even Better Day Gene-loeb Gene-loeb Aronin, Ph.D. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
