My new book project has the provisional title The New Web: Knowledge Sharing as a Part of Everyday Life. The book is my attempt to explain what makes Web 2.0 sites successful, but more importantly…
What’s really new about the new generation of web sites and services? Whether we call it Web 2.0, mass collaboration, online community, or social networking, I believe what’s really new is how large-scale knowledge sharing,…
Slides from today’s social networking seminar at USF’s Center for Instruction and Technology are available here. Do social networking sites like Facebook have any ‘real’ academic uses? It’s a controversy we tried to engage. The…
Question: Does writing half a paper, and having 40 online friends, make me an expert on social networking? Maybe! I’ll be running a social networking workshop for faculty and staff at USF on October 24th….
During FastTrack advising last week, some of the new students asked “can you recommend particular teachers?” Not knowing the different first-year writing, math, and econ profs, I told them to check out RateMyProfessors.com — the…
A big part of the web’s future impact on business will be through its ability to share knowledge almost effortlessly over large social networks. I call this ‘lightweight knowledge sharing’ (LKS – licks? lucks?), and…
A draft version of a new position paper, “Web 2.0: A social informatics perspective“, is now available online. Any actual intelligence on its pages is the product of my co-authors Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf,…