It is a useful technique which turns user-generated texts into knowledge for decision support.
Each BBC Local website is planning to offer video, focused mainly on news and sport, as well as weather updates, user-generated content and "knowledge-building" content.
Wikipedia's user-generated content model incorporates knowledge that simply cannot be managed well, either because it is tacit knowledge (possessed by individuals but difficult to communicate to others) or because it is spread among too many people to contract for.
The increase of user-generated and collectively shared knowledge content on the Internet has affected education and teaching in a variety of ways.
Last month it was Digg style social voting on search results, this month its a new project called "Knol" (which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge), a user generated knowledge project that combines parts of Wikipedia and Squidoo (and to a lesser extent Mahalo) into what could easily turn out to game changer in this space.
As a way to promote this, Knight and a team of collaborators have set up Building Rights, a "repository of planning knowledge; a user-generated forum where the rules of what is built and what is not are shared".
I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.
Think of user-generated content platforms, open source software, crowdsourcing, and knowledge markets — just a few examples of ways that large numbers of loosely networked users are invited to create or evaluate products, content or ideas.
Tagging: Rojo generates a tag cloud from user-generated tags.
We propose that devices that are sensitive to users' locations, combined with platforms for social networking and user-generated content, offer intriguing opportunities for rural communities to extend their knowledge practices digitally.
