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Using social media such as blogs, wikis, bookmarks and networks for business and education in AsiaSat, 29 May 2010 03:08:04 +0800http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4hourly1By: Hendrik
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HendrikFri, 17 Oct 2008 05:16:41 +0000http://clappingtrees.com/?p=78#comment-29940The Rise of Conference Wikis is good to reading out i can not found any thing new.. and knowledgable... if you got just told me...okThe Rise of Conference Wikis is good to reading out i can not found any thing new.. and knowledgable… if you got just told me…ok
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J.K. TanSat, 17 Feb 2007 19:51:21 +0000http://clappingtrees.com/?p=78#comment-1859See also some practical tips for blog and wikis for conference coverage at <a href="http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2005/10/blog_and_wikis_.html" rel="nofollow">Science Library Pad</a>:
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<li>People like to blog in their own blog space. Ask them if they will be blogging as part of the conference registration process, and continue to accept submissions of new blogs. Provide a list of conference bloggers. Provide a blog aggregator with both inplace reading and an aggregated RSS feed. Be inclusive.</li>
<li>People will use tags if you provide them with a standard tag and with info on how to use it in various apps (Blogger, Typepad, delicious, Flickr). Make sure you standardize early and clearly (Internet Librarian seems to have destabilized; people are using both IL2005 and IL05).</li>
<li>Ideally provide a feed of Flickr images along with the blog aggregator.</li>
<li>Wikis will not succeed unless you have a HUGE community to draw upon. People still don't seem to feel comfortable contributing to a conference wiki. It may work only for very large conferences. This puts an onus on the conference organizers to provide basic information about the conference: hotel info, maps, Google Maps bookmarks and Google Earth placemarks, suggestions about local dining, events and sites.</li>
<li>If you put the presentations up early, people will feel less pressure to use the "transcribe the powerpoints" conference blogging style and will be able to provide more analytical coverage.</li>
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UPDATE 2005-Nov-03: It's also worth mentioning that if you're going to encourage use of wireless, that means supporting laptops, which means you should try to provide lots of access to power outlets and run power strips everywhere. Until we have wireless power, an outlet is a precious resource to a laptop user.See also some practical tips for blog and wikis for conference coverage at Science Library Pad:
People like to blog in their own blog space. Ask them if they will be blogging as part of the conference registration process, and continue to accept submissions of new blogs. Provide a list of conference bloggers. Provide a blog aggregator with both inplace reading and an aggregated RSS feed. Be inclusive.
People will use tags if you provide them with a standard tag and with info on how to use it in various apps (Blogger, Typepad, delicious, Flickr). Make sure you standardize early and clearly (Internet Librarian seems to have destabilized; people are using both IL2005 and IL05).
Ideally provide a feed of Flickr images along with the blog aggregator.
Wikis will not succeed unless you have a HUGE community to draw upon. People still don’t seem to feel comfortable contributing to a conference wiki. It may work only for very large conferences. This puts an onus on the conference organizers to provide basic information about the conference: hotel info, maps, Google Maps bookmarks and Google Earth placemarks, suggestions about local dining, events and sites.
If you put the presentations up early, people will feel less pressure to use the “transcribe the powerpoints” conference blogging style and will be able to provide more analytical coverage.
UPDATE 2005-Nov-03: It’s also worth mentioning that if you’re going to encourage use of wireless, that means supporting laptops, which means you should try to provide lots of access to power outlets and run power strips everywhere. Until we have wireless power, an outlet is a precious resource to a laptop user.
]]>By: JK
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JKThu, 10 Nov 2005 09:51:13 +0000http://clappingtrees.com/?p=78#comment-134The conference wiki that Masie mentioned in Learning Trends can be found here: <a href="http://www.learningwiki.com/" rel="nofollow">Learning 2005 Wiki</a>. Interesting. Looks like the participants are still updating and commenting on the wiki even up till today, although the conference is officially over in late October.
AND more conference wikis coming up, sponsored by Socialtext:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon/" rel="nofollow">O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference</a> - March 6-9, 2006, "a space to gather conference resources."</li>
<li><a href="http://www.edventure.com/pcforum/" rel="nofollow">PC Forum</a> - March 12-14, 2006, an online space for "attendees to communicate with each other, and extending the conference beyond the meeting place and time".</li>
</ul>
The conference wiki that Masie mentioned in Learning Trends can be found here: Learning 2005 Wiki. Interesting. Looks like the participants are still updating and commenting on the wiki even up till today, although the conference is officially over in late October.
AND more conference wikis coming up, sponsored by Socialtext:
PC Forum – March 12-14, 2006, an online space for “attendees to communicate with each other, and extending the conference beyond the meeting place and time”.