Communication+and+sharing

One of the wonderful things about Web 2.0 is the potential to share with colleagues around the world almost instantly. You can ask a question, and someone out there will know the answer. Some of the tools you can use to communicate and share with others include the following. I like these, because they sit on my toolbar, and are ready to be used when I need them, I don't have to open other applications.

[|del.icio.us][[image:delicious.png width="180" height="156" align="right"]]
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, you can share your bookmarks with groups of friends, colleagues or students. I love it because I can change from my laptop, to a classroom PC, to my home PC, using Firefox or Internet Explorer and always have my favourite sites with me. Through the use of tags my bookmarked favourites are always organised. I know in the past I have methodically created folders to organise my bookmarks, but never seemed to be able to find them when I needed them. Type in the tag/keyword, et voila, there is the site I could have spent hours looking through folders for. My del.icio.us username is "starnott"

[|CoverItLive]
Cover It Live provides a way to record presentations etc, and "telecast" them live via your blog, wiki or website. Viewers to your coverage can add comments, questions etc via your site. You can add further dimensions by including Twitter "hashtags" and users to the feed, to get additional comments throughout the presentation. You can publicize your coverage through your blog or Twitter network, to get interested people viewing your presentation.