Comments (1) A response to Techcrunch Steve Gillmor’s controversial article Rest in Peace, RSS
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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Watch a slide show on Google services:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
Watch a video explaining LinkedIn
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/RXVcq7Xg6JU"][/gv]
Normally you go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
Watch a video explaining RSS
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwtmOPdrEL8"][/gv]
For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would take these steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
Watch a video explaining del.icio.us
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9s5hc3MJZo"][/gv]
WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
Watch a video explaining Twitter
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ctXq1mKL7tk"][/gv]
Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this video is useful to understand Web 2.0
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nN-U0sDZNc"][/gv]
Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
Watch a video explaining Google Docs
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRqUE6IHTEA"][/gv]
Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
Watch a video explaining Wiki
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hczDZXPfYn8"][/gv]
Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
You go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwtmOPdrEL8"][/gv]
For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would do this steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9s5hc3MJZo"][/gv]
WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ctXq1mKL7tk"][/gv]
Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this this video
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nN-U0sDZNc"][/gv]
Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRqUE6IHTEA"][/gv]
Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hczDZXPfYn8"][/gv]
Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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| academic, analysis, ask, blog, blogging, calendar, collaboration, del.icio.us, digital-divide, document, education, ego, email, facebook.social-networking, feed, Google, How to better Wordpress writing, image, information, information management, learning, linkedin, live, mobile, MySpace, organization, RSS, search, search engine, twitter, web 2.0, wiki, Yahoo!, youtube
VCCorp is aggressively penetrating the “expert” content composition in Vietnam with their new products: CafeF, bnok, gocnhin and thenao
1. CafeF
A group-blog service on Finance and Stock developed basing on WordPress
2. bnok.vn
A group-blog service that hosts multiple professional and interest groups.
Currently, bnok is limited:
bnok supports import from these platforms
From this list, it is observable that their development team utilize plugins for WordPress. To penetrate the Vietnamese market, they should have started building a tool to import Yahoo! 360 blog now.
3. gocnhin
A techmeme clone
4. thenao
A Vietnamese wiki platform. I believe that with their financial base, VCCorp will introduce incentives for contributors in the competition with Wikipedia Vietnamese.
The name “thế nào” gives me the impression of “how stuffs work”.
VCCorp seems like the only player on this field. Will expert content have any potentials for monetization?
Apart from traditional monetization by advertising on web, selling analysis and contents to consumers is also a good idea.
What do you think about these products?
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