ISITC Hammam sousse April 2011

1. Social Web & Web 2.0
S. Garlatti
10/09/09

2. Outline
¢ What is social Web?
¢ Web 2.0 Applications
¢ Personal Learning (/working) Environments
¢ Entreprise 2.0
¢ How to Reuse social web application Content?
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3. Social Web : Web 2.0
¢ What is Social Web?
• The social web is part of what the world seems to be
calling Web 2.0
• It is an implementation of social or business
networking on the web
• There are more and more examples appearing on
the web.
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4. Social Web : Web 2.0
¢ Why is the Social Web so effective?
• The Social Web is “Social”
• The user receives Simplicity
• Multiple device accessibility
• Social Webs have specific Focus
• Social Webs have Apps/Widgets making them
Extendible
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5. Web 2.0
Source: Dion Hincliffe

6. Social Web : Web 2.0
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7. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Blogs
• Personal publication + comments by others
• Linking facilities at the level of information & people
• For education
- Reflection, diary, assignment publishing
- Course information & follow up (answering questions…)

8. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Wikis
• Collaborative writing & content organisation
• For education
- Supporting group and project work, Annotated reading list,
Practicing writing skills
¢ Collaborative editing
• Web tools are used collaboratively to design,
construct and distribute some digital product
- Google Docs, Etherpad

9. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Conversational Arenas
• One-to-one or one-to-many conversations between
internet users
•
¢ Online Games and virtual world
• Rule-governed games or themed environments that
invite live interaction with other internet user

10. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Social bookmarking
• Keep reference of interesting material
• Organising information with tags
• Taking benefit from resources found by others

11. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Media sharing and manipulation
• Tools to upload, download, design and edit digital
media files
• For education
- Images & videos can be provided
- Annotation on the images or video can support specific
explanations

12. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Socialnetworking
• Keeping in touch with relations, forming and
supporting social communities
• For education
- Course animation outside the class

13. Web 2.0 - Applications
¢ Syndication & Notifications
• Users can ‘subscribe’ to RSS feed enabled websites
so that they are automatically notified of any
changes or updates in content via an aggregator.
- Easy notification of updates, automatic media distribution
(podcast episodes)
• For education
- A way to keep an eye on learners’ progress
- A way to distribute course content automatically

14. WEB 2.0: Emerging Paradigm
¢ Personal Learning/Working Environment
• Definition (M. A. Chatti)
- A PLE is characterized by the freeform use of a set of
lightweight services and tools (Web 2.0) that belong to and
are controlled by individual learners.
• Built by the learner for a specific & personal learning
goal
- Mashing up the services that will support best the goal
- No institutional drive or control

15. WEB 2.0: Emerging Paradigm
¢ Personal Learning/Working Environment
• Fit well with socio-constructivist learning/working
approaches to foster
- Collaborative knowledge sharing and building in a social
context
- Reflective practices in a social context
- Self-regulated learning sequences by student
- Discursive argumentation and communication with peer

16. Social Web : Enterprise 2.0
¢ Web 2.0 includes applications such as blogs,
wikis, RSS feeds and social networking, while
Enterprise 2.0 is the packaging of those technologies
in both corporate IT and workplace environments
¢ “Enterprise2.0 is the use of emergent social
software platforms within companies, or between
companies and their partners or customers”,
Harvard Business School’s Professor Andrew
McAfee
Source : http://deri.org/, Slideshare hhtp://url.ie/e46
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17. Social Web : Enterprise 2.0
¢ “There are direct enterprise equivalents [to Facebook].
You can ask people the status of their projects, what they’re
working on, are they travelling, things they’ve learned. All of
these things would be very valuable inside an
enterprise.”
¢ Social media services that people have been using in
everyday life on the Web are now entering
organisations:
• Blogs, Wikis, Social networking, Tagging
Source : http://deri.org/, Slideshare hhtp://url.ie/e46
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18. Social Web : Enterprise 2.0
¢ Lots of companies and products in this space:
• Awareness, Mentor Scout, Contact Networks,
Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Lotus Connections,
SelectMinds, introNetworks, Tacit, Illumio, Jive
Software, Visible Path, Leverage Software, Web
Crossing, SocialText
¢ Thesenew deployments also face the same issues
that are on the Web
Source : http://deri.org/, Slideshare hhtp://url.ie/e46
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19. Social Web : Web 2.0
¢ How can I do that?
• One account for all services!
• Move my data from one service to another (eg. All
my wordpress blog posts to Blogspot)
• Move all my data from multiple services to a new
one
• See my data on a third-party service providing
aggregation, like Friendfeed
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20. Social Web : Web 3.0
¢ Needs
• Distributed social networks and reusable profiles
• Many identities and sets of friends on different social
networks
• Import existing profiles and contacts, using a single
global identity with different views
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21. Social Web : Web 3.0
¢ Needs
• Distributed social networks and reusable profiles
• Many identities and sets of friends on different social
networks
• Import existing profiles and contacts, using a single
global identity with different views

22. Social Web : Web 3.0
How to access Data?
PLE