Web 2.0, Web Social

10/09/09

Social Web & Web 2.0

S. Garlatti

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Outline

¢ What is social Web?

¢ Web 2.0 Applications

¢ Personal Learning (/working) Environments

¢ Entreprise 2.0

¢ How to Reuse social web application Content?

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Social Web : Web 2.0

¢ What is Social Web?

•  The social web is part of what the world seems to be calling Web 2.0

•  It is an implementation of social or business networking on the web

•  There are more and more examples appearing on the web.

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¢ Why is the Social Web so effective?

•  The Social Web is “Social”

•  The user receives Simplicity

•  Multiple device accessibility

•  Social Webs have specific Focus

•  Social Webs have Apps/Widgets making them Extendible

Web 2.0

Source: Dion Hincliffe

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Web 2.0 - Applications

¢ Blogs •  Personal publication + comments by others •  Linking facilities at the level of information & people •  For education

-  Reflection, diary, assignment publishing

-  Course information & follow up (answering questions…)


¢ Wikis •  Collaborative writing & content organisation •  For education

-  Supporting group and project work, Annotated reading list, Practicing writing skills

¢ Collaborative editing •  Web tools are used collaboratively to design,

construct and distribute some digital product

-  Google Docs, Etherpad


¢ Conversational Arenas •  One-to-one or one-to-many conversations between

internet users • 

¢ Online Games and virtual world •  Rule-governed games or themed environments that

invite live interaction with other internet user


¢ Social bookmarking •  Keep reference of interesting material •  Organising information with tags •  Taking benefit from resources found by others


¢ Media sharing and manipulation •  Tools to upload, download, design and edit digital

media files •  For education

-  Images & videos can be provided

-  Annotation on the images or video can support specific explanations


¢ Social networking •  Keeping in touch with relations, forming and

supporting social communities •  For education

-  Course animation outside the class


¢ Syndication & Notifications •  Users can ‘subscribe’ to RSS feed enabled websites

so that they are automatically notified of any changes or updates in content via an aggregator.

-  Easy notification of updates, automatic media distribution (podcast episodes)

•  For education

-  A way to keep an eye on learners’ progress

-  A way to distribute course content automatically

WEB 2.0: Emerging Paradigm

¢ Personal Learning/Working Environment •  Definition (M. A. Chatti)

-  A PLE is characterized by the freeform use of a set of lightweight services and tools (Web 2.0) that belong to and are controlled by individual learners.

•  Built by the learner for a specific & personal learning goal

-  Mashing up the services that will support best the goal

-  No institutional drive or control

WEB 2.0: Emerging Paradigm

¢ Personal Learning/Working Environment •  Fit well with socio-constructivist learning/working

approaches to foster

-  Collaborative knowledge sharing and building in a social context

-  Reflective practices in a social context

-  Self-regulated learning sequences by student

-  Discursive argumentation and communication with peer

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Social Web : Enterprise 2.0 ¢ Web 2.0 includes applications such as blogs,

wikis, RSS feeds and social networking, while Enterprise 2.0 is the packaging of those technologies in both corporate IT and workplace environments

¢ “Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”, Harvard Business School’s Professor Andrew McAfee

Source : http://deri.org/, Slideshare hhtp://url.ie/e46

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¢  “There are direct enterprise equivalents [to Facebook]. You can ask people the status of their projects, what they’re working on, are they travelling, things they’ve learned. All of these things would be very valuable inside an enterprise.”

¢  Social media services that people have been using in everyday life on the Web are now entering organisations:

•  Blogs, Wikis, Social networking, Tagging

Social Web : Enterprise 2.0


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Social Web : Enterprise 2.0

¢ Lots of companies and products in this space:

•  Awareness, Mentor Scout, Contact Networks, Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Connections, SelectMinds, introNetworks, Tacit, Illumio, Jive Software, Visible Path, Leverage Software, Web Crossing, SocialText

¢ These new deployments also face the same issues that are on the Web


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¢ How can I do that?

•  One account for all services!

•  Move my data from one service to another (eg. All my wordpress blog posts to Blogspot)

•  Move all my data from multiple services to a new one

•  See my data on a third-party service providing aggregation, like Friendfeed

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¢ Needs

•  Distributed social networks and reusable profiles

•  Many identities and sets of friends on different social networks

•  Import existing profiles and contacts, using a single global identity with different views

¢ Needs

•  Distributed social networks and reusable profiles

•  Many identities and sets of friends on different social networks

•  Import existing profiles and contacts, using a single global identity with different views



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