What is Social Software?

Social software enables people to rendezvous, connect and/or collaborate through computer-mediated communication - communication that occurs via computer-mediated formats (i.e., instant messages, e-mails, chat rooms) between two or more individuals. Examples of social software are wiki’s, weblogs, skype, msn messenger, … These are used daily for various purposes, by widely varying audiences.

Social software bares in itself huge possibilities for networking all over the world, for creating communities of practice, interests… Possibilities that are continuously being explored by experts involved in education and business. If you want to take part in their findings and hop on to the networking of the 21st Century, the Venus Summer School is the excellent opportunity for you!

A definition of social software or web2.0 looks like this








You can watch a seminar about web2.0 applications, organised by the SPUTNIC project here

Social Software Tools

Click on one of the social software tools below for more information, ideas and links for personal practice!
Four topics below were also presented at the first Sputnic Seminar Web2.0 These presentation can be downloaded here

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