Hi Gene, You're certainly not slow -- you're right up there with social software by virtue of your participation in WIkiEducator :-)
There are a number of social networking sites -- each with a particular niche or focus, for example: * http://delicious.com/ is a social bookmarking site. Rather than storing your favourite websites locally on your machine -- you can share these with the world. It gets interesting because users on the site will get to know your interests, and you will get to know others and you can "share" bookmarks. You can also add your own descriptive tags for the things that interest you and search for bookmarks where users have applied the same tag - -for example a search for the tag "OER" produces these results: http://delicious.com/tag/OER * Sites like http://identi.ca/ and http://twitter.com/ are micro blogging sites - -where people post what they're doing or thinking in 140 characters. Again social communities evolve online and you can follow friends and people with similar interest -- its a great way to keep up to speed with what is happening around the world :-). There are many more -- but you should get the idea. The best to learn, is to create an account and started discovering this amazing world of people connecting virtually. So the social networking button on WikiEducator is there to make it easier for users to use our page urls in their social networks. Assuming you have an account on Delicious or identi.ca and you wanted to bookmark a WikiEducator page -- or post a short message on identica about an interesting page you found WikiEducator -- all you need to do is click on the social bookmarking button on WIkiEducator and it will automatically load the url address of that page and redirect you to your Delicious or identi.caaccount. Assuming you're logged in -- the url will magically appear in context saving you time and energy to post more bookmarks :-) There many good websites explaining how this all works and tips for learning how to use social networking sites productively. Have fun exploring. Cheers Wayne On 23 July 2010 11:21, gene aronin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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