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Your Twitter community is your life line. The strength of your community determines overall what you will (or won’t) get out of the microblogging platform. What do you want to use Twitter (Twitter) for? I wanted to build a community where I could engage in dialogue, stay ahead of the social media curve, and share some laughs.
Mahara is an open source e-portfolio, weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities. Mahara is designed to provide users with the tools to demonstrate their life-long learning, skills and development over time to selected audiences.
'“Blogfather" Justin Hall and his bride, Merci Hammon, talked to my Virtual Community/Social Media class at UC Berkeley, turning that week’s syllabus readings into a mission in PMOG which uses the Internet as gameboard, and your surfing behavior as game play.' (Howard Rheingold's Vlog)
"The key challenges the Internet community will face in the future are not simply technological, but also sociological: the challenges of social interaction and social organization. This is not to diminish the difficulties of creating new technologies, but rather to emphasize that even these tasks will pale besides the problems of facilitating and encouraging successful online interaction and online communities." Kollock, 1996. Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. Also published in PC Update 15(5): 58-60. June 1998.
"But in cyberspace, increasingly, the dream is not just "owning a house" - it's living in the right neighborhood. One of the reasons the Well (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), which has only about 9,000 registered users, is such a tony address in cyberspace is that the perception of community is so strong. A few Well users argue that, in fact, this perception is illusory, but they ignore the fact that the value of a shared hallucination is that it's shared. " (Wired)
This is precisely what Pageflakes has done in its latest version - created social networking interaction.
Ning is the only online service where you can create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. You can make it public or private and for anything - and anyone - you'd like.
Instant messaging can be an effective online learning tool that can build community and foster collaborative learning.
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