Excellent and thought-provoking article Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing? from Chronicle of Higher Education by Kate Wittenberg of the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia.
So many choice paragraphs, but this sentence struck a chord:
Since we know that students are spending more and more time in social-networking environments like MySpace and Facebook, building complex communities and sharing musings and opinions on everything from new bands to favorite books, let's form a partnership with one of those companies to build a networking space focusing on the information needs of students.
Ever since reading the recent New Yorker article "Me Media" (5/15/06) on social media sites, I've been wondering how to collaborate with the Facebook community to capture and deliver class recordings. Students are our primary audience and it's a waste not to tap into their boundless energy around the webcast/podcast service. When we announced our podcast program a student staff member said, "Great. Now I don't have to record class myself anymore".
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More interest in social networking site and CMS in Cole Camplese's blog from 5/4/06 More Facebook… My New Stump?
