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Author:
Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultantsarah.currier@gmail.com 
SHEEN Sharing UpdateResource Sharing, Discussion and Dissemination
a proposal to go forward with two tools
By SHEEN Sharing Project Consultant, Sarah CurrierTo accompany presentation at ECN Meeting, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley1 June 2009
SHEEN Sharing has spent the first few months of the project thoroughly investigating therequirements of the ECN, and more broadly, of SHEEN, for resource sharing anddissemination. We’ve also been looking at a range of possible tools that may be used tomeet these requirements.While the project has started working with other projects and informal groupings, weremain mindful of the core needs for (a) better community resource sharing, includingthe ability to discuss, comment on and recommend resources, and (b) targeteddissemination of employability resources to different stakeholder groups. We are alsoaware of the time constraints on ECN’s members, and the need to support them withtools that are easy to use within people’s existing workflows, and which give enoughadded value to their work to encourage them to pick the tools up and push through theinitial learning curve required to learn them. Today we are presenting the group with two proposed tools:
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Diigo
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, which will provide the community resource sharing and discussion facilitiesrequired, and
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Netvibes
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, which will provide a web-based one-stop-shop for employabilityresources.Both of these are free, web-based applications, and for most of the ECN, there will onlybe a need to sign up to, and learn to use Diigo.Netvibes can be easily configured to pull in resources and surrounding comments anddiscussions automatically, as well as pulling in and displaying resources from any Web2.0 enabled websites and tools (including those that folk have already started using), e.g. Twitter, Delicious, blogs, YouTube, wikis, etc. Sarah has already set up a Netvibes page,which we will look at today, but if it is decided to carry on with this approach after theend of the project, one or two keen SHEEN Sharing Development Group members willprobably need to learn to administer both the Diigo group and the Netvibes page.
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http://www.diigo.com/
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http://www.netvibes.com/
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Author:
Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultantsarah.currier@gmail.com 
For now, though, we would like to propose these main priorities for the SHEEN SharingDevelopment Group:
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Organise and attend training sessions for using Diigo, which will involve formingand joining Diigo group or groups, and sharing resources during and after trainingsessions.2.Monitor the Netvibes site as it evolves, and feed back to Sarah and Cherie whatyou would like to see displayed in it.
Diigo:http://www.diigo.com/ 
Diigo is a web-based social bookmarking site, very similar to Delicious (andworks well with Delicious, if you are already signed up to that), but with realadded value features over and above Delicious.
Diigo for you personally
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Get a free user account, and install the Diigo toolbar in your browser.
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Import all your bookmarks or favourites from your browser, and/or fromyour existing Delicious account (and other web-based bookmarkingsystems).
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Bookmark resources you find on the web in a couple of clicks.
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Add comments about resources to your bookmarks.
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Always have access to these bookmarks no matter what computer you areon.
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Organise the bookmarks using tags: by topic, or any other keywords youfind useful.
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Keep your bookmarks (and comments and tags) private, or make thempublic, so others with similar interests can find them.
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Send bookmarks, with tags and comments, to friends and colleagues,using any of several methods, e.g. email, update your blog, send them to Twitter or your Facebook account, etc.
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At the time of bookmarking, you can highlight portions of the resource,and add comments to the highlighted portions. You can then (a) seeimmediately when you go back to your bookmark what bit you wereinterested in and (b) send the bookmark with highlighted portion (andadded comments) to someone else.
Diigo for groups
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We can create both public and private groups on Diigo.
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Within either of these, you can share resources you have bookmarkedincluding tags, comments and highlighted segments. If the group isprivate, these will remain private to group members; if public, these canbe found and seen by others, and exposed via our Netvibes page.
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Anyone can add their own comments, questions and recommendations tothe bookmarks shared within the group (and to specific highlightedportions); these can form discussion about a particular resource and,again, can be exposed if the group is public.© Higher Education Academy 2009
 
Author:
Sarah Currier, SHEEN Sharing Project Consultantsarah.currier@gmail.com 
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Groups can have discussion fora: again, if the group is private, thediscussions remain private; if public, the discussion can be found, andexposed via Netvibes.
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Groups can create a set of shared tags, so that, for instance, everyonetags stuff on eportfolios with the tag “eportfolios” rather than, say “e-portfolios”. These tags will be suggested when you are bookmarking soyou just click once to add them, and they enable feeds by tag to beexposed on the Netvibes site.
Diigo recommendations
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We should form one public group and one private group on Diigo.
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We should have a training day or days specifically for Diigo.
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We should join people up to Diigo and help them get the Diigo toolbar andtheir existing bookmarks uploaded prior to coming (it can take some time).
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We should form a small group to agree an initial set of tags and add thesein the groups.
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We should agree which tags should have feeds exposed in the Netvibessite, and where.
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We should start using the Diigo groups for sharing and discussingresources.
Netvibes:http://www.netvibes.com/employability 
Netvibes is a free web-based service that lets people and groups create personalised,dynamicwebsites very easily. The main focus is dividing your Netvibes page into tabs (bysubject, resource type, or any other way of organising your page) and within each tab,having “blocks” which pull in content from other services. You can use “blocks” to:
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add some text or other information;
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show external webpages;
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display a video from YouTube or other video service;
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display up-to-date, dynamic newsfeed results from other sites (such as a blognewsfeed or a Delicious or Diigo tag feed);
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use “widgets”, which are little tools allowing you to use another site’s service fromyour page (e.g. a Google Search widget will give you a little Google search box inthe page).
Netvibes for the ECN
 Today you’ll see the first run at a prototype ECN Employability Resources Netvibes site. Itincludes:
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A “Welcome” tab with the following blocks related to the project and the site as awhole:
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A “webnote” block (which just lets you add text) introducing the purpose of the site;
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A Twitter feed showing the latest tweets from the SHEEN Sharing Twitteraccount;
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