Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr (and now owned by Yahoo) to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr uses “tags” or what we would call keywords to help identify and search for photos.For this discovery exercise, you [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Week 4
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Week 5
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There are a number of great book related sites available on the web these days. This week we will be exploring some places that allow you to keep track of the books that you have read (or want to read), share your opinions with other readers, and get recommendations on what to read next. So please take this opportunity [...]
Week 6
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Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & posts). Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.
In the [...]
Week 7
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A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide, the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.
Some of the [...]
Week 8
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The availability and use of online productivity web-based applications (think word processing and spreadsheets) has exploded over the past two years and for good reasons! These powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without the need of installed desktop applications (or “apps”). Some experts speculate that this [...]
Week 9
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Week 2
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Now that you’ve done some exploring around this website and understand how this program will work, it’s time to set up your very own personal blog to begin recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises. For this program, we recommend that you use WordPress*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is extremely easy to [...]
Week 3
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You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday [...]
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