A long-delayed response to Beth Kanter’s questions about screencasting
am 18.06.2007 von http://obiterdictum.wordpress.com/
As part of my re-exploration of the walled-garden social networks, I’ve accepted the entire batch of LinkedIn invitations that had queued up in my dormant account. One of them was a request from Beth Kanter for advice on screencasting. From my point of view, LinkedIn was superfluous in this case because the same request had already been made (implicitly) in this blog post in which Beth summarizes what she had figured out for herself, and then invites feedback.
Although we should probably not yet simply assume that linking to a blog post will draw the attention of the author of that post, the blogosphere does in fact propagate awareness in that way, and does so with remarkable speed and reliability. So in this case I’d seen Beth’s item before I began receiving requests from her via LinkedIn intermediaries. Because I was boycotting walled-garden social networks at the time, I thought this was a good opportunity to show how, in a case like this, the open Net can obviate the need for a closed network. So I replied to Beth’s blog item in a comment. Or rather, I thought I did. But although I wrote the reply it seems I never managed to post it. Oops. I’m sorry about that, Beth, and I’ll try to make up for it here.
But first, I want to note that your item is a textbook example of how to construct an online query for information. By summarizing what you’ve already learned, you’re helping bring other folks …
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