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"The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading International Organization of developing and transition country researchers, policy and research institutes promoting the generation, sharing, and application to policy of multidisciplinary knowledge for the purpose of development. "

"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation". For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/ This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content : http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3"

This is a free service of the Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP), maintained by Texifter. (See QDAP tag) . Tools in this toolkit facilitate coding of text data sets, enable annotation with shared memos, and provide tools to assist with managing team collaborations (permissions, etc.)

DocVerse is a Microsoft Office plug-in that allows for real-time sharing and group editing of Microsoft documents (Office, Excel, PPT).

Zotero is a free, Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources.

Produced by VideoUserManuals, 2010. This is a manual for developers who create websites using WordPress (as a CMS). There are some helpful tips; they even share their own standard process for new site development.

NADE's Math SPIN (short for Special Professional Interest Network) facilitates interaction and sharing opportunities for developmental math faculty. There is an occasional newsletter (published here) as well as links, resources, and best practices.

By Ethan Benatan, Jezmynne Dene, Hilary Eppley, Margret Geselbracht, et al. on Academic Commons, September 9, 2009. The authors discuss the evolution of the Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource Web site (VIPEr), an online collaborative site to share teaching materials and ideas and build a sense of community among inorganic chemistry educators.

This wiki site is for shared ideas on affordances in learning environments.

Wiki site encourages collaboration and sharing of education materials.

IKSME is a research institute that focuses on improving information access and knowledge sharing in the education sector.

Engage in group verbal conversations that are collected and shared in one place. "A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways: voice (mic or telephone), text, audio file or video (via webcam)."

Excellent video on how businesses need to redesign their systems to support listening, learning, sharing--more people you know, the more things you can do--"next practices" drawn from Jarche's blog

Very interesting yet short video on social learning as it relates to business but at first glance, they seem to apply to nonprofits/educational groups, too.

By Darren Kuropatwa on his blog, A Difference, July 29 2011. In this post, Kuropatwa shares three presntations he gave at the 2011 Building Learning Communities conference. His presentations are rich (many of the individual slides have clickable links), but of course much is lost without his voice. There is a note that videos of the presentations will be included when they are available.

Excellent blog by Beth on seek, sense, share--the meat of content curation

Presented on P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University), "a grassroots open education project," this new course on online, self-directed learning is being presented by Anya Kamenetz. In this particular course, participants are directed through the processes of writing a personal learning plan, building a personal learning network, and finding a mentor, all while sharing the process with their fellow learners. Unlike many of the other P2PU courses (which have a more topical focus), this is open to those who want to learn on any subject.

No author or date listed, this blog posts promotes a guide to Google+ for educators, written by Steven W. Anderson. I bookmark this post for two reasons. First, obviously, the opportunity for educators to learn more about Google+ and it's potential educational applications. But also the format, LiveBinder, is an interesting way to present and share resources.

Posted by George Siemens on his blog elearnspace, September 5 2011. Siemens argues that instructors can't provide "coherence" for knowledge just by "broadcasting" a course. He suggests that coherence is about how "*we* connect information elements and how we use artifacts and narratives to share that coherence." I am interested in the idea of "information foraging," especially in the context of content curation.

"The "AI Commons" is a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change..." The site is hosted by Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

From the home page, "Welcome to the knowledge and learning community committed to college completion, where you can share and collaborate across stakeholders, learn about innovative projects, and read current college completion news."