Social networking andsocial media
How can we use them in the Wits libraries
Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor
(Knowledge & Information Management)The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://[email protected]
In ancient times people used computers to send email and...
... to surf the Web in web browsers that only opened HTML pages
Feb 1998
Then something changed...
I only use email to
talk to old people.
What's email?
I am readingGarfield's blog about Dinophysis.
This isRuff
McRuff,and your Lbrarian'spodcast
Socialnetworks
Mobile technologies
Society – technology co-evolution
Derek's big five
Subject to rapid evolutionary change in response to selection pressures
Narcissism
StalkingADHD
Syndication RSS
Syndication & RSS Information from a website is made available
in XML form (feed), including a link for more information
Two common formats, RSS and Atom You subscribe to the feed, so it is PUSHED to
you instead of you having to GO FETCH IT
What is CHISIMBA?What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the
framework used to build a traditional African house
An object-oriented framework for rapid
development of distributed software applications
A suite of applications built with the framework, including the KEWL3 eLearning application
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