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An American Teaching in Asia Reports on Why Japan Loves Wikis
Wikipedia Japan
I’m excited to be able to share insights with you today from an itinerant English teacher on the topic of Japanese interest in wikis. Hopefully you will remember this topic from last week’s discoveries here and here.
The author has been in Asia for several years as a professional English teacher, first working in Japan [read more...]
Facebook, Devourer of Sites
Social networking juggernaut Facebook exerts a gravitational pull on smaller sites, sucking them into its orbit. Darren Rowse’s recent guide to making your blog “sticky” – attracting repeat visitors – addressed Facebook’s power concisely: “I have some readers on DPS who are Facebook junkies. They refuse to subscribe via RSS or email but [read more...]
Book Review: Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
Elevator pitch
Robert Buckman is the CEO emeritus of Memphis, TN chemical vendor Buckman Laboratories. I discovered his 2004 book Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization during a hopeful search on “knowledge management” at a Memphis Library kiosk. This was my first real offline research in the collaboration field and I was pleased to find such [read more...]
