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Some additional terms used in the study of technacy

Some terms as listed in Google for the Technate person to adopt and use:

Blogopedia (listed 267 times in Google Search)
A list and explanation of new terms that arise in electronic language -- especially those that are used in weblogs as people create new knowledge.

Blogmapping (listed 41 times in Google Search)
Mapping the social network that exists between people when they link to each other's sites.

Technacy (listed 173 times in Google Search)
The new set of skills required by human beings to be able to communicate in an era when electronic language dominates communication activities. (As opposed to literacy which are skills that were required in the age of print.)

K-logs (listed 7,970 times in Google Search)
"Some people are taking the concept of weblogs and applying it to the wider concept of knowledge management. The result is k-logging ("knowledge-logging"). But will it catch on - will your employer dump Lotus Notes databases in favour of browsers and blog-style brain-dumps?"

K-logs (John Robb's Discussion)
It promotes a personal brand (as a domain expert in an organization or a smart person with a valuable POV).  It solves personal organization problems.  It makes it possible to be heard in the online environment despite noise generated by more vocal contributors.  It documents what you do in a way that is visible to a wider corporate audience.  As a result of the above, it provides people with motive to contribute (a feature lacking in the solutions provided by Lotus and others). 

Social Software (listed 3,050 times in Google Search)
Social software improves in functionality with more users because either the more people that use it, the better the environment that the software creates is (Ebay, Sims, etc) or because the more people that use it the better the actual software itself becomes (open source software dev and, as J C Herz points out, the Sims again).


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