Carmen Holotescu Director Timsoft

Cristian Armeana Project Manager Cirip.ro Romania MBC09 Conference, Hamburg

January, 23-24, 2009

Microblogging Platform for

Education and Business

Presentation Agenda:•Facilities of Cirip.ro

•Uses in Education

•Uses in Business

•New features

•2000 users on Cirip.ro

~= Romanian twitterers

•interface in Romanian, English, German

Cirip.ro - a microblogging platform specially designed for education and business; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications, located in Timisoara

Romanian Communities on microblogging platforms

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) of users

Cirip.ro special features:

•public and private groups (courses, projects, events, internal communication, service, family, different topics)

•business groups (companies, organizations, politicians, artists)

•multimedia objects embedding in notes: images (flickr, tinypic), audio (deezer, vocaroo) and (live) video clips (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, seesmic), presentations (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram), documents (pdf, doc,xls)

•feeds monitoring (from sites/blogs/social networks/seach)

•statistics, vizualisations.

UsersGroups Feeds

PLE: users, groups, feeds

Interactions online, via ciripfox, SMS, mobile, IM, (MMS), API, twitter2cirip, rss2cirip

Text messages, images, audio, video (live), presentations, files

Profile

cirip2twitter, widget, export notes on blogs

•information and knowledge management

•courses enhancement

•delivering entire online courses

•collaborative projects in universities

•communities of practice

•ePortfolios.

Educational uses

Group news:

announcements

materials as LOM/SCORM objects

An online course about microblogging platforms

Investigations:

•integrate microblogging with other Web2.0 technologies

•microblogging platform as LMS

•course facilitation

Course elements:

announcements

materials as LOM/SCORM objects

collaborative exercises

multimedia messages

built PLNs

Collaborative exercises using different Web2.0 technologies:

•puzzle images - flickr, CC

•del.icio.us collection

•video translation - writeboard, dotsub

•comments on voicethread

•tagcloud - wordle

•code of good practices on microblogs - writeboard

• Cirip.ro has facilities to deliver successful and qualitative online courses and to enhance courses; the communication, authoring, monitoring, statistical facilities make Cirip.ro a modern free LMS.

•Participants gain important digital and communication skills, build PLEs, continue to collaborate in community

SMS / online (multimedia) campaigns, polls.

Clients: companies/organizations, communities/groups, politicians, artists, sport teams, media, banks, etc.

Solution can be personalized on the needs of the beneficiars and target groups.

Live interaction with the specific groups during events: live video, messages, polls.

Business groups

Group

Join online / SMS: cirip @mbc09 I want to monitor this interesting event

Members interact with companies / organizations / politicians

Messages are monitored online / SMS

Mobile coupons for services / events

Notifiers/reminders can be sent by SMS to specific subgroups

Live Events

Real-time polls, questions / comments, feedbackonline ( text, live video ) SMS.

Event stream exported on partners sites / blogs.

Business groups for companies / organizations / politicians

Group – mobile fan club

Interaction online / SMS / IM related to:- events – timeline, localization on Google Maps - promotions - polls - online / SMS voting, also during the concerts.

The fans can send

SMS for: - votings songs- participation in promotions - book / buy tickets for concerts

messages, images, videos from concerts / meetings with artists

Business groups for artists

Future work:

• Tags will be implemented to classify notes and to organize the group messages

•OpenID auhentication

•Improve mobile version

•International SMS

•MMS messages

•Communication with Identi.ca, Facebook

•Scenarios with EML

•International collaborations

Carmen Holotescu Director Timsoft http://cirip.ro/u/cami13 http://twitter.com/cami13

Cristian Armeana Project Manager Cirip.ro http://cirip.ro/u/cip

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