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Author: Sarah Currier Consultancy, 2 June 2009Contact:sarah.currier@gmail.comWeb:http://www.sarahcurrier.com/ 
SHEEN Sharing UpdateNotes for PDP for International Taught Post-GradsProject Meeting
What is SHEEN Sharing?
SHEEN Sharing was funded by theS FCto support the Employability Co-ordinators’Network (ECN) with:
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developing their resource sharing capabilities as a community of practice, and
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ensuring that good quality employability resources are disseminated to allrelevant stakeholders. The project is investigating and trialling the use of a range of Web technologies insupport of these ends from January to September 2009. You can keep up-to-date withproject activities, and send feedback and questions, via the projectblogand/or its Twitter feed,or by emailing Project Consultant Sarah Currier atsarah.currier@gmail.com. ECN members and SHEEN-funded project consultants may also attend the weekly SHEENSharing drop-in webinar clinics (held Wednesdays, 9-12am, URLs distributed via the ECNemail list). Tools being trialled include those for
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collaborative resource development;
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social networking;
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social bookmarking, tagging, rating and recommendation of resources;
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group spaces for community support and discussion. The project will also investigate options for providing a stable home for gathered andcreated employability resources, which may involve future use of a well-supportedcentral repository, e.g. JorumOpen, or the HEAEvidenceNetservice. SHEEN Sharing is managed byStrathclyde University’s Employability Co-ordinator, CherieWoolmer (based at theCentre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement), withProject Consultant,Sarah Currier. TheHigher Education Academyprovides administrative support and guidance.
SHEEN Sharing’s Core Activity
We have identified two tools with which to achieve the project’s core aims: sharing,discussing, recommending and disseminating resources, privately within the group andpublicly with external stakeholders
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.From June 2009 we will be trialling the use of social bookmarking tool Diigo, and webdissemination tool Netvibes. Diigo will allow both public and private group discussion,and sharing, tagging, discussing and recommending of resources. Netvibes will providean easily configured website to expose publicly shared and recommended resources fromDiigo, as well as from other employability resources around the web. The project will
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For more on Web 2.0 applications, see project documents, including introductory slides& handout, project plan and update documents here:http://www.scribd.com/group/70979-sheen-sharing-project-documents 
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See blog post on Diigo/Netvibes trials:http://sheensharing.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/next-phase-under-way-a-community-ecn-site-plus-a-lovely-resource-sharing-tool/ 
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