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SharePoint Part 1 Conference Recording
Started Mar 17
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Replied Mar 12
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- Gefen Systems Inc., Chatsworth, CA
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- I really believe that Web 2.0 is going to change our world for the better.
Twitter is so powerful and a major force in social networking. (Already I have nearly 6,000 Twitter followers and well over 8,000 on a similar social networking site.) I don't pretend to be a Twitter expert, but I do believe in certain tenets of its operation, which can make it successful or not. The over-riding principle of Twitter is that people who tweet (Tweeps) need to be consistent in what they tweet and use attraction rather than persuasion to gain followers. It must be used to spread good news, like a crack of blue sky in a cloudy overcast world.
Virtual worlds such as Second Life and Open Life (and others) have great power as an instructional platform. The interesting thing about having a class in Second Life (or another virtual world) is that it doesn't matter where you are in the real world, everyone is in the same classroom. However, time zones become really critical (since that is something we haven't learned how to manipulate yet!)
I believe in the potency of wikis and their incredible power to attract tacit knowledge and capture it for other people to use/enjoy. Also, I believe that wikis are an integral part of learning, (in whatever form they take), since even posts to good old Blackboard is a form of wiki in a collaborative learning setting. Wikis are essential in business too.
I feel that networks are the key to our learning environments and that much of the useful material we take for granted today, has been achieved through the early use of networking.
For a career, I have been a technical writer with a long history of working in computer technical support and I taught video-editing and animation in the early years. I have worked for the BBC and Thames Television. Also, I spent a few years working aboard a Princess Cruises ship, which helped greatly to flesh out my knowledge of the physical globe! I am now joining a small company in California which manufactures parts to switch giant displays (such as those in Times Square) and is a major player in the delivery of video scaling and HDMI with deep color. I shall be doing some web-writing and working as a technical writer.
I have at least fifteen years of experience in PC, Mac and UNIX technical support and supported Microsoft Office back when it started out! I have also supported all flavors of Windows since its inception. What's more, I have worked in many cross-platform environments involving Apple Macintosh, UNIX and Linux environments. There is a lot to look forward to in the future of technology!
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Wow! Your page here is great! I followed your advice and I'm trainig my Mozilla Firefox 3 browser... elated with it! Now I can surf with more ease until Microsoft solves the excluding issue among its own LiveOneCare new "antivirus" and IE.
Btw. Gonzalo got my mic working.
Mil besos corazón.