... are more blogs than ever, what is interesting here - actually there is a lot to wade through so here are my high points: I do like this image -mainly because  - in the best ego-surfing modality of the blogosphere - this blog seems to be one of the 76,000 blogs with a Technorati Authority of 50+ (now granted, I just squeak in with a 68 but hey a win is a win).   As I sit here writing this blog post with my Twitter open, my Yammer going, Facebok up and ... word blog is irrelevant, what's important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every ...

... mostly because I'm much more focused on my personal life and the many transitions I'm handling there. If I were to blog it ... who don't interject their personal lives into their blogs (ala Cathy Moore as reported to Michelle Martin ), then I don't think I'll make that list. Which is fine. Really. Blogging's not a contest... But personally, I like the personal. And yet, I also like my boundaries. Of course, I do see some connections that bridge the gap between my personal ... a game. Plus, swimming around with whales is really cool. So. This is me trying to get my blogging energy back.

Blog Action Day this year is October 15th. All you have to do as a blogger to participate is dedicate a post on this one day regarding Poverty. What Can One Person Do? "Poverty is not only a pressing issue, it is a complex one. It's easy to think that there isn't much an individual can do. Fortunately this isn't the case at all. With ... act. You can find a range of resources about poverty, about what the average person can do as well as dozens of post suggestions and ideas in our Resources section." Visit the Resources Section ." ( - Blog Action Day 2008 ) ...

27 Inspiring Women Edubloggers View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education women ) I'm humbled (in that "feeling like a fraud" sort of way) and also inspired to be included with some really great bloggers -- some known to me, and some brand new. Thanks, Zaid ! Janet Clarey and Michele Martin helped start the conversation that led to Zaid's new list. For more conversations on women in blogging check out these posts: Blogging the Personal An older post, Where Are All the Women Part ...

... person. Those of us amenable to "masochism" will get more value from our efforts than those with a low tolerance for ... comment, it's worthwhile. Dr. Bob Cherry - I'm finding it hard to "get" blogs (almost certainly my failing)I am beginning ... " and wants to talk (a real menace sometimes). On Facebook and blogs the social/professional interaction seems much less vibrant . ---------------------------------------------- These comments got me thinking about the importance of personal ... started blogging, my goal was to get a lot of stuff out of my head. Forcing myself to write for public consumption, ...

I am a gardenia...... During last week's illness (and before I killed off my old computer), the eLearning and technology blogs seemed like too much work for my fever-addled brain. I couldn't concentrate on my usual round of reading (news, sports, cooking). I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep. I found myself reading fragrance blogs. (I can ... . - They are very supportive of each other - bloggers regularly comment on each other's pages. The message boards and blogs ... respectful - the community members understand that scent perception is a very personal experience and respect ...

This posting is addressed only at those who don't have a physical aversion to Microsoft. I've always been distrustful of fashionable views which don't coincide with my own personal experiences, so I tend to go out of my way to contradict them. For this reason, I'm recommending a Microsoft tool to fulfil an essential Web 2.0 task and I am not embarrassed to do so, so there. I've been using Windows LiveWriter for a month now to make my postings to Blogger. It's a desktop tool and it's free to download. So, why am I using it in preference to Google's own Blogger editor? Let me tell ...

I often suggest learning blogs (see Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) and Personal Learning Strategies ). In other words, blogs are a fantastic tool for Personal Learning . I often suggest during presentations that starting a blog at the beginning of any learning endeavor is a great move. I just saw this : I have decided to take ... blog and offer encouragement, help and companionship along the way. I know this happens all the time, but it's a quick reminder that creating a learning blog is a great move.

Blogs for Learning . Interestingly, when I prepared the notes for this week, I was able to leverage what the course members had produced during the previous week on Social Bookmarks : http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blogs http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blog http://delicious.com/tag/wlning+blogging You can read in the link Blogs for Learning about my perspective on using Blogs for Learning and Networking. There's a bit in there on blogging strategies, but the reality is that when I go back and look at my previous posts on what your personal strategy should be around blogging ...

... fell behind" in her blogging and then found she had trouble "catching up" ... Then, I started saving "clippingsâ ... interests you, but it's been a couple weeks since anyone posted about it. My personal feeling is that if you have something ... was too tired to post at the end of the day! It's ok to have time off from your blog, it will hurt readership and hurts ... just talk about what's going on. Take a look at Wendy's blog - In the Middle of the Curve . She does a wonderful job of ... concerned about. It's really an incredible case study. Maybe you can't do as much with your blog, but still capture ...

Something I (probably too often) talk about is learning via a blog. It certainly is a great lens to have in viewing ... , I'm learning via blog comments and blog posts by other bloggers - likely much more than anyone reading the blog itself ... most conferences either. I've seen them so often, I just assumed I should be doing them also. Blog learning! In many ... come to a conclusion. One one hand - a person who knows the answer immediately sounds more professional (gives a sense of knowledge when speaking to the customer), and resolves problems more quickly. On the other - a person who knows ...

... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... : Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells Online ... open-minded after all: When provided with the option to view lectures online, rather than just in person, a full 82 ... seminar that provided students with hands-on experience working with blogs, wikis, Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds, and ... blogging applications. Posted by David Shoemaker at 10:22 PM in Corporate Training , ...

... has a blog which serves knowledge in small pieces: Jane's eLearning pick of the day , a very interesting set of ...

Just saw Wendy's post - Blogging as Therapy ... I should go back and update: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog . Over the past few months, I've become more convinced that all of us should be blogging as a personal learning tool.

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... experience myself is that a blog has been a much better personal learning tool than participating in discussion forums. It has ... The debate about blogs vs. discussion groups is heating up again between TrDev and Blogs vs. Listservs: Which is ... probably worth looking back at some prior posts on this topic such as: Community Blogs - Maybe I'm Finally Getting It Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community? eLearning Discussions - An Attempt at Better Discussions in the Blogosphere Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top ...

I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be ... of these blogs are by practitioners who I believe exemplify smart blogging as a personal learning mechanism. All ... , but I came to understand the request (from a very persistent person). That said, I still cheated (see below). I think ...

... among bloggers. The most common models of blog discussions seem to have turned into a few patterns: Organic Blog Discussions - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Blog Tag ... . Blog Hub - A central blog provides a place where the topic is raised and comments are collected and bloggers post. See ... - questions/topics are raised via the discussion group and can go out into the blog world to get a more diverse audience - which is now happening with a group such as LinkedIn Bloggers. There are other forms of interplay in the blog world such ...

Great post by Tom Haskins says - among other things: If a blog post does not feed back into the blogosphere, that's not blogging. That's merely informative -- or it's the formal learning we did before blogging took hold. If the value of your blogging is not endlessly recursive, then you can conceive of your value like before. If a blog post goes nowhere, that's a web log: an online personal diary. Blogging is the repercussions and the reciprocities from responding to responses. That circularity transforms how you are valuable and how you learn. That's what emerges naturally by blogging ...

... different ways to measure your blogs success based on different purposes. I tend to agree with Stephen: Measuring "your blog's outcome" is ridiculous. It's like measuring 'friendship'. measuring 'reflective moments'. My personal measures of success for my blog are: Is it helping me to learn? Is the process of processing and writing causing me to learn more ... Stephen Downes post Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools has a couple of good comments and he points to Beth Kanter's Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools which also has ...

A frequent question I get at the end of any presentation on eLearning 2.0 is how much time I spend on blog reading and ... speed on what's going on. Realize this is high, but much of my professional work is staying up to speed. Blog reading ... books. Originally, I didn't plan to replace these activities as I considered the information from blogs to be quite ... they don't seem nearly as meaningful or targeted as blog posts. Most of my free subscriptions have lapsed. My guess ... hour." The same feeling starts to happen when you read blogs and then go and read magazines. A magazine ...

Within the blogs, I am starting to see discussion on why people don't use collaboration tools (or LMSs for that matter). The big question is WHY? Dave Pollard did a little experiment in August 2006 trying to get people to help him edit ... me when I started blogging - fear. How many of us have risked answering a question at school (elementary --> grad ... potential downsizing? I had to fight through ALL of these emotions when I started blogging. - Will I be accepted or ... of what I am talking about? I am sure that I personalize things more than others. Still - if I am feeling ...

Blogging about Colombian Education A little space to ... Hello there, After six months of my last post, I finally have online my own website. So, this blog is moving ... local educational blogs, for example. The use of blogs as a tool to build electronic portfolios has been already ... initiatives we propose on the communities area should have a strong blogging component. Having massive online presence (this ... could get online references to their interests while writing a report, and article, or a blog post. Promoting ...

Internet Time Blog About Us ... . Whereas objects of art reflect the personal vision of their makers, manufactured goods - which are designed to be ... , 1986 The designers personal ... capture the essence of personalized learning. Im starting to think in terms of learning experiences . Here, between ... Common Ground, a Pattern Language for HCI -- iffy, incomplete. Personalization Consortium ...

For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some of my thoughts in Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? while I suggested that YOU should, I didn't push. In my summary of the responses to the Big Question - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog - I again ...

... moment in time, communicating in real-time.  It’s mind-blowing. I’ve learned that micro-blogging services ... informative … and it is flavored with the personalities of those who are tweeting.  I’ve even joined the chorus ... ’s Twitter in Plain English video below.  Subscribe to blogs like TwiTip for Twitter tips, tools, and best ... , micro-blogging, social, socialmedia, socialnetwork, socialnetworking, tool, tools, twitter, web2.0    ...

... almost always true already). What I look to get from blogs is lots of perspectives. Personal perspectives. Why aren't ... blogs try to cover all the bases i.e. covering news, books, tools, articles, best practices, personal news etc. Sometimes ... I've had a brief blog conversation with Quintus Joubert - eLearning Blog: Blogs: Engaging the reader . It started when he questioned the blogs cited on Gabe's list of top 19 eLearning blogs as ( eLearning Blog: Top 19 eLearning blogs ). His post are good to look at as an example of some of the common questions that people new to the world of blogs ...

... may not technically count as blogging even though it's personal journaling and commenting. Social networking hasn't really ... assumption that we are talking about blogs that are somehow "expert blogs" as opposed to personal blogs. While experts have ... I received a great set of questions via email over the weekend roughly coming out of a two articles: Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 , By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking . The questions: Do you feel that Gartner's prediction will apply to educators in general? By end of 2007, will those educators who would ever dabble in blogging have ...

... a cult of personality. Why is it that the words "me" and "I" are so prevalent in blogs?" What a loaded statement. One ... stop pretty quickly. On "I" ... Blogs are mostly written in first person because they are an opportunity to share your ... " that blogging gets from people who've probably only visited a few blogs and have been inundated with a general media bias against blogging. Below I've listed a few of the more interesting reasons that people don't like blogs: "you have to go there to 'pull' out information" Most people participating in blog reading and especially those participating ...

Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been labelled a spam blog. Here is Dave's note taken for the side bar: I'm writing to you through the sidebar because Google has frozen LCB because they believe it is a spam blog. What's a spam blog? Here's Google's definition: As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called ...