Wilfred Rubens who keeps on delivering great insights on eLearning on his blog (Dutch) has directed me to the superb wiki of George Siemens on Facebook and its benefits as a social network service. This wiki was one of the results of a workshop he did on facebook at the University of Manitoba. The wiki gives a nice overview of when which social network was started. After that he zooms into Facebook with a good analyses on pro's and cons if you want to use it in a ... social media. Read her blog for some really great insights into social networks and media. She writes with ...

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 ...

2007 Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger : eLearning Technology ... of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software ... + community / social networking. Im not sure I quite get what that means yet. I wonder if mzinga does? The description ... / Social Networking and LMS Merger Permalink: Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger ... most prolific contributors are, or whose contributions are rated most highly, or whose social network is the most ...

I know there's a lot of social networking tools out there, but looking purely at the educational possibilities, I quite like the look of Infodit .  Intodit allows you to establish a group site with a combination of wiki and forum functionality. It does this without undue complication and I can see it being a great way of focusing attention on an educational topic or project. By the way, I joined the Coldplay fan group!

Here are the handouts and the slides for the presentation that I did on Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks. It was a fun, hands on presentation where many of the attendees had a chance to create a blog and a wiki. This session esd conducted at the Training 2007 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. I enjoyed the audience and had a lot of really great questions and ideas from the audience members themselves. Thanks for contributing to a great session. Click on the links below to obtain the desired materials: Handouts Slides On a related note: Here are the Slides for ...

... websites Tools Used: Used Weblog.com to create the blog Google Sites for the wiki Myspace LinkedIn Facebook ... Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Developed a course on social networking for business Will ... databases to research social networking Past predictions about online communities assumed text because that was what was ... ;instructors may not remember every student they taught (Provided a bunch of stats on social networking usage–I’m not taking notes on all that) Many businesses consider time on social networking sites wasted, but not ...

... management systems. We’re adding blogs, wikis, social networking, virtual worlds, and numerous other technologies to ... Social Networks, the Next Educational Tool? : “At last year's Educause conference, in Seattle, educators pondered what to do about students' technology habits. Should they try to change them? Accept that they're here to stay? Try to co-opt them? A lot can change in a year. Many colleges seem to have moved on from the question of whether to follow students' lead on technologies they prefer, from Web-based e-mail to Facebook to text messaging. Now, the dilemma ...

White Label Social Networking Platforms ... peopleaggregator.com Networks Hosted   10,000+ Not Disclosed 1100 699 4000 ... layout; logo; prominent links to other networks Footer and URL platform references Footer; URL ... Limit No Limit (?) No Limit Varies (100, 2500, and upward) No Limit Network Site ... Facebook Application   N N N N N N Y N N ...

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis ...

... managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 While the Microsoft / Facebook ... Social Networking & Collaboration Social Software ... Was Away... Project Status: Social Networking Within The Enterprise Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of Tacit Software Project Status: Social Networking Within ... Social Network Sites: Webinar Today Cisco WebEx Connect ...

White Label Social Networking Solutions, Part II A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch The information in the ... and custom social networking solutions. For do-it-yourself, hosted solutions, please see our previous chart and our post "9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network" . You can also return to the post accompanying this chart. Hover ... America Omnifuse Pringo Networks Prospero Technologies SelectMinds Small World Labs Social Platform Sparta Social Networks Telligent Systems ThePort Network, Inc. VMIX Media Web ...

... 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 ...

You've GOT to check out Tim's blog . He's been in my reader for a while, and I love his posts, but these little one page job aids are BRILLIANT! One page guide Introducing wikis The coolest thing is that he is allowing downloads in PDF or DOC which means you can edit the DOC if you need to or just print the pdf. Here's the only catch... 1. Credit Practical Participation including their URL (www.practicalparticipation.co.uk) 2. Use the same creative commons on your work. 3. Let Practical Participation know about any adaptations or derivative works. Mobile ...

... are either skeptical about tools such as blogs, wikis, and online social networks, or they're willing but wary of ... ., is predicting that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis, employers ranging from investment banks to ... . Does Wikinomics Have The Write Stuff? - Internet News Wikis are all about collaboration, so it perhaps is no surprise that the authors of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything , have set up a wiki, Wikinomics wiki , to go with the best-selling book. In keeping with the wiki tradition, the Wikinomics wiki, hosted by Socialtext, ...

... simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. From what I can ... function or certification. This merger points to another direction - combination of LMS capability + community / social networking. I'm not sure I quite get what that means yet. I wonder if mzinga does? The description of their offerings ... paint a bit of a picture: ...think certification training with links to discussion forums or a Wiki or relevant files in a shared file repository... He also pointed me to a Gartner quote: Enterprise social software will be the biggest ...

Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start ... organization to one where SMEs and learners are more responsible. Tony's examples were brief, but interesting: Wikis Product ... actually some good stuff that we discussed. The associated links: Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D ...

Something like the social network operating system , maybe. These are nicely captured by this article as Tony Karrer ... . I also feel like Facebook is a bit creaky and as Thomas Vanderwal's recent post Facebook for Business or LinkedIn ... similarly try to figure this stuff out. Luis Suarez - How to Boost Your Social Capital with Facebook mentions MyBlogLog ... Networks? and Multiple Social Networks. However, in this case, I almost see it more form the opportunity side of things ... Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform . He commented: To be clear, I do not ...

... orientation material. As a social-networking site where, through personal pages, employees can learn about their ... Found via Big Dog Little Dog - It's information collaboration - discusses the use of Wikis within organizations. Some of the points it makes: Gartner predicts that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis Examples of ... finding that Wikis are a really great replacement for stuff that we've previously done as web pages or using Robo Info/Help ... has 3,900 active blogs, 3,300 separate wikis, 3,600 "project workspaces" More than half of companies don't use blogs ...

FeedBlitz Recent Posts on eLearning Technology Too Many Social Networks ... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning Technology Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and ... collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize ... wiki that would allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the companys technology strategy.

Siemens) Optional Collectives, Networks and Groups in Social Software for E-Learning - Terry Anderson and John ... 20-26) Readings New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies Cloudworks: Social networking for ... Welcome to the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course support wiki. Conference tags: CCK08 This page is ... also this short post on making surfing in China easier] This course also has a FaceBook group at CCK08 ... : Properties of Networks (September 22-28) 11 Week 4: History of networked learning (September 29-October ...

Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate eLearning? : eLearning Technology ... together blogs, wikis, mashups, rss feed together (probably because eLearning 2.0 and web 2.0 often lump them together). However, I think the answer about adoption rates is going to be quite different for these things with Wikis and Mashups being adopted at a very high rate. RSS and Blogs have much slower adoption. Wikis provide an opportunity for us to create ... . We will dump Dreamweaver and RoboInfo in favor of Wikis. Mashups we basically already use but in a different form.

... 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 ... we will create these (Google Docs, Wiki, Mindmap, etc.). I'm fairly flexible, but at the end of the day they need to be ... Expertise (Network) Collaborate Scan (Continuous Awareness/Learning) Learning 2.0 for Workplace Learning ...

... covering: Week 1- Social Networking --Ning, LinkedIn and Facebook If you have specific questions about social networks that we should address as part of this module, please leave them for us here . Week 2-- Social Bookmarking and Tagging Week 3-- Blogs Week 4-- Aggregators and RSS Feeds Week 5-- Wikis Week 6-- Pulling it all Together Each week we ... eLearning Guild, from September 29 through November 7, 2008, this network will be THE place for you to learn about Web 2.0 and how social media tools can be used by learning professionals. The goals of the event are to: * Introduce ...

Technorati (3) Twitter (3) Second Life (2) Facebook (1) RSS (1) Slideshare (1) Mel Aclaro - Business Casual Blog Twitter (41) LinkedIn (32) RSS (18) Social Network (15) Facebook (6) Ken Allan ... - Blender Training Solutions LMS (10) Flash (8) Moodle (7) Wiki (6) Photoshop (5) David ...

... system out called UdutuTeach and UdutuLearn to turn social networking sites like Facebook into an LMS tags: lms , facebook , socialnetworking Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world’s first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. nets-implementation » home Wiki collecting examples of how the National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) are being implemented tags: technology , wiki ...

Brandon Hall Research is the type of company where you own your ideas. That means when you have an idea, it’s your to implement. I seem to have settled in to all things ’social media’ after embracing social networks, blogging, microblogging, wikis, and presence technologies. As a result, I ended up not getting enough 2.0 action myself but rather working with other people to establish their own blogs, wikis, Twitter accounts, social networks, and wikis, etc. Truly a gratifying experience. How nice to run across some photos and videos of what was an awesome week it ...

... if social networking tools, blogs, wikis, and more were used to construct courses and give students more control. What would that do to the pedagogy? tags: lms , socialnetworking , ple , blog , wiki , web2.0 , learnercontrol ... Taking the ‘A’ out of Asynchronous Examples of colleges successfully using synchronous tools for office hours, student collaboration, and administrative work tags: synchronous , highered , collaboration , education ‘Socializing’ the CMS The traditional CMS/LMS is designed for a more ...

According to the site, Socialtext 3.0 is comprised of three parts: Socialtext People - Social networking for the enterprise Socialtext Workspace - Group-editable wiki for easy, flexible, enterprise-wide           ... enterprise systems           and makes other enterprise applications social.     Think Twitter, Facebook, Wikis and more all rolled up in a nice, neat appliance that I can just install behind ...

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 ... were they easy to use. It's all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ... the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. Wikis are way better even if the end-users don't ... memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis ...

... tools and technologies include wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and social networking. Well…I’ve run into a situation recently that I believe will be encountered more and more by people who try to implement social learning at ... will be safe. But social bookmarking and social networking tools are lagging behind a bit. This means that we may find ... Whether you call it Learning 2.0, eLearning 2.0, or Social Learning, there’s a relatively new wave of tools ... information out to the public. Most social learning tools are web-based, and the social (or sharing) aspect ...