... every month or so in a restaurant on Brighton seafront. The discussion centred on social networking: "The explosion of social networking sites in recent years has prompted some serious reflection on the state of modern friendship. While many ... users. Of the 16 hours that regular internet users spend online a week, 11 hours are spent social networking (hardly ... all convinced that social networking is in any way a cause of this state of affairs, not least because the phenomenon was in evidence long before social networking came on the scene. It seems likely to me that more credible reasons for ...

Too Many Social Networks? : eLearning Technology I just read David Warlicks post - I Just Donâ??t Get it Yet â?? Social Networks where he discusses his recent experience with several Ning generated social networks including: Iâ??ve joined Library 2.0 , School 2.0 , and Classroom ... head, but Iâ??m to dull to know it. So please explain. Ive tried out several social network tools and have had a ... something around social networks that will take off, but any network that is a closed system needs something as a hook ...

Chart shows percentage of teens and tweens and what social networking/Web 2.0 activities they do weekly online ... social networking is now so deeply embedded in the lifestyles of tweens and teens that it rivals television for their attention...Nine- to 17-year-olds report spending almost as much time using social networking services and Web sites as they spend watching television. Among teens, that amounts to about 9 hours a week on social networking activities ... , many students engage in highly creative activities on social networking sites...Overall, an astonishing 96 percent ...

... have about why we might adopt threaded discussions / forum software vs. adopting a social network solution. Longer-term we want to have more of a social network where people will become more social, interact in a myriad of different ways, create groups within the site, and generally will take it into classic social network realms. Short-term we want this to ... I'm debating the value of forum / group / threaded discussion software vs. social network software for a particular ... center around threaded discussions . Generally are easy to get into. Options are simple. Social Network ...

... my role at the association I work for is basically managing our online social networking efforts: Linkedin, Facebook ... Ive recently given people new to social networking this comparison of Facebook and LinkedIn ... know that  professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks.  LinkedIn is designed ... has several posts about networking on  LinkedIn (and Twitter and Facebook) and friending policies: I used ... ; Your organizations social networking strategy doesnt ...

... reading. The article, " Social Networking and Corporate Learning " is a quick read and could serve as a jumping-off ... (space-imposed limitations, I'm sure), it does give named examples of companies where social networking has been ... least of which is to upgrade with new solutions that implement social networking tools. Why? Social neworking (platforms ... them about preferred project management processes. For learning organizations looking to bring social networking tools ... content authoring, sourcing and rating. Don't allow anonymity. The social networking system must integrate ...

Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start as a Learning Professional? Start with yourself and your work group Adopt tools that are free and password protected ... actually some good stuff that we discussed. The associated links: Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D ...

... term) of Facebook that really holds no appeal. I blog and read blogs that appeal to me. I'm active in subject-focused social networks. That's enough. I think you're right in that it does come down to priorities. If I'm getting sucked into another network that eats up my time and takes me away from other things and people then there needs to be a payoff greater ... have written, I don't see a lot of learning in the purely social nature of Facebook On a certain level, I agree ... I've been getting some amazing comments on Facebook. Too much food for thought!!!! For those (like me) who ...

... first ... What is Facebook? Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. At ... previously tried to get an internal platform for social networking rolled out in the organization and had limited adoption ... well as a means of communications within your social network. What I've found interesting is that I now commonly use LinkedIn to find interesting people, but often use Facebook to communicate with them. When you look at the core functions of ... has Your Audience One of the struggles with any social networking software is overcoming the hurdle of getting users ...

... helpful to have a CEO say things like: "Social networking tools like Facebook can bring us back together, help us get ... A mistitled article - found via Bill Ives on the FastForward blog - Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet. The real focus of the article is how Serena Software has adopted a practice called Facebook Fridays: Each Friday, employees are granted one hour of personal time to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers ... that do not embrace social networking are making a huge mistake." ...

... topic (or similar topics) recently: Enterprise adoption of social bookmarking and tagging Enterprise 2.0 Adoption ... ... Web 2.0 Numbskull Factor Network IT vs. Enterprise IT - Adoption Eyetracking ... Web 2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - Its Personal : eLearning Technology Ive previously written about adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 tools inside of corporate ... " captures my same feeling on adoption: people will only use software that benefits them personally at every step ...

... to Social Networking Introduction to LinkedIn Introduction to Facebook Introduction to Ning Using Social Networks for Personal Professional Development Using Social Networks with Learners Social Networking and Privacy Managing Your Networks and "Time Suck" LinkedIn Tips and Tricks Social Networking Wiki Because these are tied ... to see us work on ... Work Literacy 2008 A set of resources for concept workers who are not early adopters to help them be aware of relatively newer methods and tools that they should consider adopting to help them in their ...

On the one hand, we have the U.S. Air Force embracing Web 2.0 (albeit with understandable caution), we also have columnists in Forbes telling (their peers?) " Why Companies Need Web 2.0 ", then we find a global report on the adoption of 2.0 in countries outside the U.S., but then we have this article noting that " one in four businesses block access to Facebook, social networking sites " and that " one in three survey respondents said their    companies consider the sites a major drain on worker output." Anyone else feel like they ...

... certain what that core is. So why is it taking so long for us 35+ folks to adopt Facebook and other social networking ... slow our generation is about getting on facebook. I've been putting it off for years it seems like. Now - this came from the guy who got me involved in one of the earliest iterations of online social networking in the form of Virginia ... online communication, take so long to adopt Facebook? I came up with the following list of excuses. - Facebook does not ... A friend who I have not talked to in over 15 years contacted me through Facebook a couple of weeks ago. MZ is ...

Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and a wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better. Social networks through my blog or ... and added value. Some people are really not getting the impact of different tools. Getting Value from LinkedIn ... that it appears that more and more people are getting it ( More eLearning Bloggers , Facebook Fridays and I'm definitely Pushing Harder Now and we need to adopt the attitude - eLearning 2.0 - Just Go Do It . We are going to be ...

... many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these "places" like Second Life, Facebook, etc. mostly for socializing. I have to agree. Kids mostly use these tools for social reasons. For several ... socializing with each other. So the primary motivation for kids to use social networking tools are for non-academic purposes ... focused on socializing. But surprisingly, kids use social networks for educational purposes on their own. One study called Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--And Educational--Networking indicated ...

Early responders to a survey on learning practices in enterprise 2.0 say their people are falling behind. What’s the feeling in your organization? Take three minutes to complete the survey yourself. I’ll send you the results when we have them. We will release the initial results at LearnX in Melbourne next month. Our one-day un workshops in Sydney and Melbourne the following week will dig deeper into these and other findings about adoption of social network software, enterprise 2.0 tools, impact of communities, and learning from mistakes, ...

... technology and are fully branded. We are trying to innovate the Web 2.0 revolution by not only providing social networking, but ... RSS scoble semantic web signal social bookmarking social media social networks startup tagging ... , social software , socialtext , spikesource , suitetwo , traction software , wordle , worklight — Hutch ... ? Collaboration . Very much in keeping with the web 2.0 ethos. After that, we see learn and networking as important use cases ... enterprise continues to be. Social as a top word is no surprise. Isn’t that the premise? Community falls in ...

Networking --Ning, LinkedIn and Facebook THIS TOPIC IS UP as of 9/29/08 Week 2-- Social Bookmarking and Tagging ... Create Your Own Social Network ... September 29 through November 7, 2008, this network will be THE place for you to learn about Web 2.0 and how social media ... Michele Martin created this social network on Ning . Create your own social network! Work Literacy Badge Get ...

... enterprise blogging system? Better yet, is there a social network similar to facebook lurking behind your firewall that ... career. So let me make it again so we are all clear: Social Media is changing EVERYTHING! Everything is turned upside ... offers a lot of Web2.0-ish functionality? The point is that Social Media is changing ALL aspects of BUSINESS. All ... then level of training and consulting will ever get you up to speed. Social Media is hands-on: Get in or you're OUT! Look into "reverse mentoring" as part of your change management strategy. That's where you get the early adopters ...

Chuqui has an excellent point about all of the tools we use: Social networks only succeed when the value they return a value that is worth the investment -- in this case, the primary investment is time. What the value returned is depends, everyone will define that differently, but there has to be a commonality here that this investment is worthwhile ... enough. Facebook is starting to show some promise as a possible way to put all of my stuff together, but I just haven't ... end-users to adopt. Will the return on investment be high enough and happen fast enough for it to stay in the ...

... adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - social networking at IBM 26,000 ... Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? Choose the top 3-5. Method Count Percent ... - Dogear • Scuttle - Open Source Social Network Systems • Awareness Networks â ... • Select Minds • Sparta Social Networks • Prospero • Telligent Community ... go in order according to the topics covered in the session. Existing Adoption At the very start I asked ...

Career in Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Ray E. Jiménez, Ph.D. started by saying as of today, the LMS ... social networking is all about people, not about technologies. You need to know about people; you have to understand the ... is informal. She then showed us FlockPod by Harbinger. FlockPod is a tool that adds social networking functions to ... and tools become obsolete, but people are always going to be social animals. Learning 2.0: Harnessing the Potential of ... to me, so I’m surprised when people haven’t heard of Facebook or Twitter. Nevertheless, the session ...

Many Social Networks , I'm somewhat skeptical that having a lot of networks will really take hold. And, it's worse ... up the network software to getting widespread adoption. Maybe Brandon Hall or a Ning community will take off. Or maybe ... open models based on stuff like blogging (which has been - by far - my best online social networking tool ever - far ... I just saw a post from Tim Sosbe - The "New" Network that tells us the following about the Brandon Hall Network ... to collaborate, share resources and make new connections. ... If you've read other blogs claiming the Network is ...

... by public' - BBC "The adoption curve now is faster than ever. That early adopter segment of the market has grown." Teens 'turn to social websites' - BBC More than half of all net-using American teenagers use social networking ...

Learning Launched (7) Learning Communities List (7) Forums vs. Social Networks (7) Blog Learning (7) Good ... ) LinkedIn for Finding Expertise (6) Social Learning (6) Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape (6) As a side ... Networks , Network Feedback , F inding Expertise , Using Social Media to Find Answers to Questions , Learning through ... - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and ... (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0 and Quality (11) Social ...

... your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? Choose ... 18 2007 - social networking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No ... ?¢ Connectbeam â?¢ IBM Lotus Connections - Dogear â?¢ Scuttle â?? Open Source Social Network Systems ... â?¢ Ning â?¢ Ramius CommunityZero â?¢ Select Minds â?¢ Sparta Social Networks â ... information. One quick question about your resources. Why do you list WetPaint under Social Networking instead of wikis?

... some Australian school curriculum. Supporting Article Tag: YouTube Social sites becoming too much of a good thing - San Francisco Chronicle Social networking sites have steadily attracted more people this year, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. But between August and September, traffic to almost all popular social networking sites fell. Tag: Social Networking Add graphics to your blog, book, or presentation - Creating Passionate Users People pay ... percent of Chief Academic Officers agreed that there are no significant barriers to widespread adoption of ...

Due to Social Networking an... Blogging as Part of Classroom Experience ... We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) What is eLearning 2.0 ... Contact Information akarrer@techempower.com My LinkedIn Open Connection ... Way We Do Wo... Banning Phrases - Adoption by Corporations ...

DevLearn08 entitled, “15 Objections to Social Learning and How to Overcome Them.”  Then, yesterday, someone at my company put up this comment: “ The Community Portal (the name of our customer facing social media / learning platform) should be a Knowledge Base first, and a Social Networking Site second. “ What a great ... first a social media site which creates adoption and captures knowledge which creates a repository as an effect ... the limitations and the old mind set of those systems and they (KB professionals) are FLOCKING to social media.