Blogging - an introduction — As well as being useful for networking socially with others world-wide, blogs (a contraction of "weblogs", basically on-line diaries) have a useful function in education - blogs map neatly onto Ravensbourne pedagogical concepts like reflective journals and personal development planning. This is part of the whole package of Web 2.0 tools that have arisen over the past few years and these often involve what is known as Social Software. Social Software programs are computer based tools that allow or encourage social interaction. Examples are bulletin boards, blogs, podcasts and services like del.icio.us and YouTube.
Blogging - tools and techniques — If you have already started blogging and want to know more, we have some useful information for you.
Using Social Bookmarking — Shared bookmarking was one of the first applications of what is now known as "social networking". One well-known service is a tool called Delicious - now a service of Yahoo!.