flickr.com These tough economic times have required sacrifice, even from Google. It’s sudden drop in revenue has forced the company to also drop several of its services, including Google Notebook, a web annotation tool. Apparently, I was one of only a few who have come to rely on the service for making sense of all [...]
In a previous post Barbara described the power of social networks to create real change in the world. In this post I would like to discuss how, as instructors, many of us view social networks as silly, foreign and time consuming. It’s no wonder that we so quickly shy away from participating in online social [...]
Cengage Learning sponsors this blog In today’s episode, we had the chance to speak with Maggie Tsai, one of the co-founders of Diigo, a web-based research and knowledge-sharing environment. You could say Diigo combines all the best features of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and social networking sites like Facebook, which we discussed in a [...]