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Conversation Searches

Tony Karrer

What are Conversation Searches? During those presentations, I'll mention what are sometimes called "vanity searches." These searches look for any mention of your name, company, URLs across blogs and other sites. So, I think of these searches as conversation searches, not vanity searches.

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Workscaping, part 3 of n

Jay Cross

I search or ask people when I need to know. If I have a good network of savvy colleagues, I can ask them for advice (“social search”). “I Among the options available to them: Searching and asking questions work best with explicit information, things that could be written down. Tags: Workscaping.

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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social News Aggregator - Digg. Social Q&A - Askville or Answers.com. Social Search - Samepoint WhosTalkin BingTwitter Scour - My favorite. Social Measuring - Technorati. Actually, in some circles, mashups are considered a form of social media. RSS Reader – Google Reader Bloglines.

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Going Dutch

Learning with e's

Tags: communities Second Life University of Utrecht Bazaar learning Networks. Graham, Helen and I will be meeting up at Online Educa Berlin two weeks before this event, to present a join panel session on the educational uses of Second Life. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.