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Linkeracy 18 January 2009

Obama’s Social Media Toolkit – how to grow a brand / use new media technologies effectively / the crawl, walk, run, fly philosophy – from Steve Rubel

The next step in applying Gladwell/ Tipping Point theories to twitter users. An interesting look at the Tipping Point and Twitter. Are you a connector, a salesman or a maven?

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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging)

On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches.

I have been constructing [...]

Linkeracy

Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools and Resources from Mashable

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Try WikiMindMap for a visual representation of a Wikipedia search:

WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki’s, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. [...]

Citizendium – Watch This Space

The Citizendium is a project that aims to create

“a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.” from Citizendium Main Page

This is an interesting development [...]

Content Sharing

Andy Carvin has blogged about Jimmy Wales’ (the founder of the Wikipdeia) latest project:

He also announced a new project called Wikiversity. It will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual learning materials, for all [...]