With drop.io you can easily send any media or content you want to all your twitter followers by just adding it to your drop. Create a drop here by clicking 'drop it' - then just add your twitter account and customize your tweets... whenever you add new content to the drop via any 'input' it will be instantly tweeted.
While an individual user may use Twitter primarily as a conversational tool or a broadcast medium, in its totality, Twitter operates a lot like a wiki: as a knowledge-sharing, co-creation platform that produces content and allows its consumption. Conversation is perhaps the most simple and obvious form of collaboration, but would anyone claim that Wikipedia is a conversational platform? Despite the presence of information sharing, co-creation of an end product, and even discussion pages, Wikipedians on the whole aren't having conversations. According to this argument, Twitter is no more a conversational platform than Wikipedia is.
Add the Conversation element so visitors can post comments and links on your site or participate in global Google Friend Connect conversations. Posted comments can be automatically translated into a visitor's preferred language--instantly.
EndnoteWeb, RefWorks, Connotea, CiteULike, Zotero, Mendeley. Nice summary of the state of the art by Martin Fenner. Conclusion - not much to choose in some ways - personal preference!
Wikipedia has rapidly become one of the most used reference sources in the world, but a new study shows that the website's explosive growth is tailing off and also suggests the community-created encyclopaedia has become less welcoming to new contributors.
http://www.citeulike.org/user/username/order/pubdate,desc,last e.g. http://www.citeulike.org/user/AJCann/order/pubdate,desc,last To list your own publications in date order, flag them as your own papers in the edit dialogue, then: http://www.citeulike.org/profile/AJCann/publications/order/pubdate,desc,first
Basic service is free and lets you create up to 2 forums and 2 sub forums. You also get 100MB for file attachments (like pictures uploaded by users). You can also pay $25 to $75 a month for more storage space and the ability to create and manage more forums.
"For adoption of new technologies in science, it has to be an order of magnitude more useful than current tools. We just don’t have the time to waste learning new tools that only marginally increase our productivity." Discussion: http://friendfeed.com/science-2-0/bceaea67/scientists-still-not-joining-social-networks
Second Life alternative. 3DXplorer is a web3D platform for collaboration meeting conferencing. Free option. Works on UoL campus! Java-based, a bit slow to load.
Mashable write up of our Twitter article: Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley. Twittering the student experience. ALT-N, Vol. 17, October 2009. http://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/xrctg5ovlfkimsphpsy77s
Designing for participant engagement To provide guidance on how best to prepare, structure and plan sessions to ensure participant engagement. Learning and familiarisation with Elluminate To provide guidance on the most effective ways of learning and becoming familiar with Elluminate. Technical issues To provide guidance on the likely technical issues that may arise and how best to minimise their impact.
‘Amplified events’ utilize social networks to record and relay discussions from a physical event to a much larger online audience. This case study is an analysis of the impact of Web 2.0 tools to amplify a local staff training event. We explore the affordances of social technologies to increase participation in the event beyond the confines of a single institution and give practical advice for others who would like to run an amplified event.
Video Chat with up to 20 people for free. TokBox requires no download, only an internet connection and a webcam. Sign up is free and takes just seconds.
Draw, share and collaborate on online diagrams. Easy web flow chart, network diagram, mockup, wireframe, UML diagrams like Class, Sequence, & data flow and process flow diagrams. Creately - free web-based software for online diagram software
CoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images. No registration or plugins required.
A. Kittur, and R. Kraut. CSCW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 215--224. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)
O. Arazy, and O. Nov. CSCW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 233--236. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2010)