Re: [Marketing] [DESIGN] Ideas and questions on SL.o

2009-12-27 Thread Jim Simmons
Luke, I've been working on Floss Manuals for awhile and while what they have is essentially a Wiki it offers a more structured approach. Since everyone is writing a manual on a specific topic and topics need to be approved by an admin the content is less likely to gallop off in all directions. T

Re: [Marketing] [IAEP] [DESIGN] Ideas and questions on SL.o

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Cole
While wikis, blogs, and other social networking phenomena may be great for personal empowerment and self-esteem, not everyone can who wants to write can write. It often seems to me that there is this illusion that wikis in particular are self-organizing, self-correcting organisms requiring very lit

Re: [Marketing] [DESIGN] Ideas and questions on SL.o

2009-12-27 Thread Gerald Ardito
Luke, As a teacher/technology facilitator managing a deployment of about 140 XOs and Dell netbooks with SOAS, I completely agree with your assessment about the site's usefulness. I think your strawman is a good start. I am willing to help with the teaching resources piece. Best, Gerald On 12/27