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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics

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Your intranet, on the other side, is more like a garden: relatively small in terms of users and content, with participants contractually bound to the organization and a low tolerance for failure. How can a social platform based on blogs, wikis, discussion forums and status updates succeed under those conditions?

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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 4. Your social business platform as a shopping mall

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Boxing Day at Eaton Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Wikis: they showed the potential behind a more “social” model of authorship, and Wikipedia is still proof that the model can be very effective under ideal conditions. Even wikis, who are supposed to be social, are mostly one-trick ponies.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

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RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking sites, mash up technology, etcâ??but is going to have a huge long term impact (although I hate the name ‘Web 2.0′). I think the term Web 2.0 term may be part of short term hype, as noted by David Evans, but I believe it will have long lasting effects.

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A Seismic Shift in Epistemology (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

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For example, in Wikipedia, “knowledge&# is constructed by negotiating compromises among various points of view. The term Web 2.0 Wikipedia) help large numbers of people build online communities for creativity, collaboration, and sharing. is redefining what and how and with whom we learn. tools (e.g.,

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Wikipedia and the wiki utopia, revisited

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If Wikipedia can be as good as Britannica, we could replace all our outdated corporate knowledge repositories with wikis. If Wikipedia can be as good as Britannica, we could replace all our outdated corporate knowledge repositories with wikis. Was Wikipedia just the exception that proved the rule?

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