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Contents 1 General on Web 2.0 tools 2 Blogging 3 Wikis/Collaborative Content Development 4 RSS, Newsfeeds 5 Podcasting 6 'Vodcasting' or 'Vlogging' or 'Video Blogging' 7 Screencasting 8 Slidecasting 9 Video + Powerpoint Mash-up 10 Social Bookmarking 11 'Mobile Blogging' or 'Moblogging' 12 Widgets 13 Web 2.0 visual maps 14 Twitter 15 Southern developed Web 2.0 tools

General on Web 2.0 tools

• Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

External URL: http://www.oecd.org/document/40/0,3343,en_2649_201185_39428648_1_1_1_1,00.html#HTO

Blogging

• An Introduction to Weblogs http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page5041.cfm
• Getting Started with Blogging Software http://www.communit.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=779&Itemid=60
• Blogging How-To guide, for beginners

http://www.masternewmedia.org/independent_publishing/blogging-how-to-blog/guide-to-publishing-first-blog-20071104.htm.htm

• How to Add to Blogging Conversations http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/02/22/how-to-add-to-blogging-conversations-and-eliminate-the-echo-chamber/
• Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents (Reporters Without Borders) English: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=542, French: http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=527
• Video tutorials on Blogging http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/blogging

Wikis/Collaborative Content Development

• Wikis decribed in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000644.html
• CommonCraft's Wikis in Plain English video http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
• PBwiki's introductory video on using Wikis for Collaboration, http://www.blip.tv/file/160501/
• PBwiki's Getting Started Video, http://www.blip.tv/file/208044/ Good intro showing what wikis can do
• A guide to the use of Wikis at Events http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-104/
• Exploring the World of Wikis http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5511.cfm
• WriteBoard - great for short to medium documents, http://www.writeboard.com/ Dead simple to see where changes have been made, to go back try old versions, etc.
• On selecting wiki software and tips http://www.nten.org/blog/2007/09/28/from-the-affinity-groups-recommendations-for-wiki-solutions
• On Building successful wiki communities http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Toughpigs
• MediaWiki's UserGuide / Help Contents: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User's_Guide Useful list of guides and helpfiles for the MediaWiki software, arranged by relevance for installers, for readers, for editors, for moderators, and for administrators pf the MediaWiki software

RSS, Newsfeeds

• RSS, What is it? CommonCraft Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
• What is RSS: A Guide To Really Simple Syndication Benefits, Best Uses And Applications http://tinyurl.com/2jp7qm
• RSS: Quick Start-up Guide for Educators http://www.weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf
• What is RSS and why should NGOs care? (ppt) http://www.importantprojects.com/resources/WhatIsRSS.ppt
• A few RSS Readers:

Bloglines, http://www.bloglines.com/

Netvibes, http://www.netvibes.com/

GoogleReader, http://www.google.com/reader

MyHeadlines, http://www.myheadlines.org

CTA RSS Aggregator (test site), http://www.myheadlines.net

Podcasting

• http://www.poducateme.com/guide/ The PoducateMe Guide is a comprehensive guide that will let you know what Podcasting is, why it is interesting for Education (but not only for Education), how to plan, record, edit and distribute your podcasts and more; very practical online guide.
• http://www.km4dev.org/wiki/index.php/Podcasting_in_Development The KM4Dev Community's page on how Podcasting is being used by development organisations

'Vodcasting' or 'Vlogging' or 'Video Blogging'

• Wikipedia's entry on Vlogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog
• Beth Kanter's very useful collection of Video Blogging Resources (videos, manuals, links) http://cloggersummit.wikispaces.com/Video+Blogging
• Freevlog's step-by-step, get-a-videoblog-for-free tutorial http://www.freevlog.org/index.php/category/tutorial/
• Personal Video Message Recorders: Best Online Tools To Record Your Instant Video Messages - A Mini-Guide: http://www.masternewmedia.org/video_internet_television/online-personal-video-recorder/record-your-own-video-clip-web-based-tools-guide-20070708.htm
• "How to Compress for the Web from Windows..."

http://freevlog.org/text/wmm_compress_transcribe.pdf "Freevlog Tutorial: How to Compress for the Web from Windows Movie Maker."

Screencasting

• An Introduction to Screencasting - Why screencasts are useful, how to create them, and software tools that can helphttp://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/training/page6885.cfm
• Screencast: screen capture techniques http://www.screencast.be/ discusses software, techniques and technologies and offers suggestions and tutorials to create the best onscreen demonstrations. Also has a useful resource directory
• The Secret to Screencasting with Ubuntu and Free Software,http://www.freecharity.org.uk/2007/04/12/the-secret-to-screencasting-with-ubuntu-and-free-software/ short practical article with practical tips on Open Source Software that you can use to produce Screencasts;
• RecordMyDesktop is a very simple desktop session recorder for GNU / linux http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php

Slidecasting

• A blog entry on creating Slidecasts - a mashup of presentations (like PPT) and an audio file http://web20teach.blogspot.com/2007/07/podcast-powerpoint-slidecast-mashup.html
• Video from SlideShare showing you how to make your own SlideCast, SlideCast 101 http://www.slideshare.net/jboutelle/slidecasting-101/

Video + Powerpoint Mash-up

• Zentation; http://www.zentation.com/ Zentation provides a way to synchronize video uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint. Free to use.
• VCASMO http://www.vcasmo.com/

Social Bookmarking

• A screencast by Beth Kanter on Social Bookmarking, takes some time to load http://www.projectstreamer.com/users/kanter/withntenlogo/withntenlogo.html
• overview of 10 most popular social bookmarking sites http://weblogs.about.com/od/marketingablog/tp/TopSocialBookmarkingSites.htm

'Mobile Blogging' or 'Moblogging'

• Blogspot's On the Go With Blogger Mobile http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42448 Exlpains their one-step process of sending photos and text to your own Blogger Mobile site and then integrating it with your existing Blogspot Blog;
• 'Digital Postcards from a mobile phone' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4397899.stm a BBC article on someone who used Mobile Blogging as a way of sending 'Digital Postcards' during a road trip across the United States of America. Illustrative of what Mobile Blogging can do when there are no internet cafés near, and simply written;

Widgets

• Beth Kanter's screencast on Widgets - what they are, why non-profits like them, etc. Takes some time to load http://web.splashcast.net/fs/?embed_url=/so/2/p/ELQX2446EY/s/AGXS1120AG/sc/45448/fs/

Web 2.0 visual maps

• Web trend map. Complex but comprehensive map across many themes.

• Map of online communities. Humerous and informative, possible out of date already.

Twitter

• An account of development practitioners experimenting with Twitter annd how it may be used to add value to professional activities http://icollaborate.blogspot.com/2007/10/experimenting-with-twitter.html

Southern developed Web 2.0 tools

• Southern developed Web 2.0 tools web 2.0 tools and services which are not offered/provided by the North.