June 6th, 2007
Two Great Videos in Plain English
by Joshua Porter | 
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Lee Lefever over at Common Craft has posted two nice videos about how and why to use new technology. Lee, who is also using the term “social design”, is obviously aware that not everybody is on the social media bandwagon yet. These videos are a great primer for folks who want an explanation of what RSS and Wikis actually are. They’re fun, too.
RSS in Plain English
Wikis in Plain English
Lee is doing some great work, focusing on the implications of social media for communities.
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1. Lee LeFever on June 7th, 2007 (Comment) #
Hey Josh,
Thanks for the kind words. We’ve having a great time doing the videos. More to come…
2. P.Arora on June 8th, 2007 (Comment) #
A simple video on Web 2.0 (in plain English) would be good, specially to pass around to those PM and Execs who want to web 2.0ize their websites but have no idea what web 2.0 is.
3. Rainer on June 10th, 2007 (Comment) #
I would really like to give that wiki lesson to my PM’s. But I am afraid they don’t know English well enough