... story link ) **As an aside, I love the new editing UI in Typepad...good job guys! So IBM is releasing something called OpusUna (which means something like "work as one"); "OpusUna enables participants to collaborate and communicate from within the same browser space, incorporating widgets, audio, and video cameras to display themselves on the screen. IBM envisions, for example, collaboration on patient care via sharing of medical images. Financial traders also could collaborate from around the world." Right now I guess its only working in Safari...?? Anybody know any ...

Today a few of my colleagues and I are testing software to work on collaboratively. We selected three possibilities a pbwiki , coventi pages and google documents . All of them have different applications, so we will have to see which software we like the most. For what: to get six syllabi that cover the same topic - but are given by different professors - to get them all into one final syllabus that covers the content and is satisfactory to all. That is why we are looking for something that keeps track of all the versions and allows easy comparison between versions. The software ...

... moments and facilitate outreach and collaboration on a scale and scope that was once either previously prohibitively expensive ... ! Mike also pointed to the fact that many times new collaborative groups will create a new space in which to collaborate ... for the access to whatever collaborative spaces we build. How does that affect the way we design for these collaboration spaces? Is this one thing that tethers collaboration to one space? If so, how do we change that?  And how do we ensure that everyone gets to join this big collaboration pool - even if they do not have the financial means to get ...

... tools (although that's a bonus) -- but seeing how everyone's collaborating. Very cool. Robin really goes with the ... Summary: Learning collaboration is all about trying new things, making mistakes, experimenting. When we come together ...

... ok, today I found a solution for something that my colleagues have been harrasing me about for some months now: a software that makes it easy to work on with a lot of people. coventi pages I really have to thank Anol of Soul Soup for his great post. Great!

Online collaboration can be a pain. As a team you miss the non-verbal language on which communication is built ... holds of communication. Once you need to write collaboratively, the power to express yourself is also limited in the digital realm. SCoPE just finished a seminar on the topic: online collaboration . A wealth of knowledge was shared with all ... Elluminate sessions on online collaboration, you can find the links to the elluminate sessions in this wiki . All ... collaborative writing in a team of learners? Key to all collaborative work is TRUST . To enable online trust it is ...

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Today I had planned to compare different shareable notebooks with one another. Up until now I used the free version of Evernote to make my personal notebook, but it is time for a change that fits better with the ideas I have in mind. You could ofcourse use a wiki for this purpose, but I wanted something that gave me the immediate ability to add (almost) any type of document, whether it is audio, video, text... and which allows me to make note pages that look chaotic, because that is the way I like to start my search and filtering for content and knowledge. A quick search with ...

There are a lot of softwares out there for document sharing. But graphically speaking Issuu says it all. The UI is beautifully done and it gives the user/reader the impression he can almost scroll through the pages of a document. Although Issuu offers some interactivity (sharing, bookmarking, commenting) it is a pity they only accept pdf-documents. Just take a look at the educause document the Horizon report . For a complete range of formats you need to go to Scribd or ... to share your documents. Scribd is less catchy then issuu, the fact that it has a very broad range of documents to ...

This year we will start vodcasting (video on demand) at the institute. We were already dabbling with it, but ... it is coming along now and we will soon start with informative movies for our new students. In a later stage these students will be motivated to publish their material. In this quest for easy access and information I came across the amazing ustream.tv . This was send around and a couple of organisations I am in (mainly gender empowering ones) will be using this to get their conferences live online. The Web surely works amazingly quick. in house our aim is to: - publish ...

You tell them you can do something incredibly useful like troll it for professionals in your field that it might be valuable for you to follow. Jane Hart has posted the " 100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter ." Now that looks like using a blog and not twitter but now since somehow (Jane probably just needed someone in the O's) I squeaked onto the list, I am watching my Twitter followers light up with new folks thus broadening my community of practice. So ask those folks if they think it might be valuable to somehow pick the Top 100 people in your field and then be able ...

As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below. I would expect the document to continue to grow and change, but thought it would be worth having it available in a text format as well (so I can find it when I need it ... ) Collaborative Reviewing Cozimo ( link ) A.nnotate ( link ) Diigo ( ...

... ordinary people. It's information collaboration - Newsday Research firm Gartner Inc., based in Stamford, Conn ... . 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 ... For all the mind-numbing buzz about Web. 2.0, most business collaboration and information sharing remains mired ...

One of the goals of Web 2.0 and other technologies is to foster collaboration. But, there seems to be an issue with how many people actually collaborate. According to many sources, less than 1% of the people who visit blogs or wikis actually contribute or collaborate with the author of the wiki or blog. This is called the 1% rule. One of the major issues with collaboration in an academic or even a corporate setting is determining how to evaluate each individual's contribution to the overall collaboration. How do you ensure equal participation? How to you judge one person's work ...

Michele Martin and Chris Brogan pointed me to newly released applications for LinkedIn that you can add to your profile to extend its capabilities and improve your business opportunities.  The following nine applications are currently available.  Click on the links below to learn more. I added my WordPress blog, Learning Journeys , to my LinkedIn profile with one click.  It’s that easy.    Tagged: collaboration, linkedin, socialnetworking, web2.0    ...

I ran across a nice post Clive on Learning: In praise of collaborative online assignments where he suggests that we provide collaborative assignments in addition to self-paced, individual eLearning. I'm a big fan of this approach and have tried it in a few different forms. One was making the content primarily collaborative group projects at the start - Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary . Another was providing group assignments towards the tail end of particular sections. Honestly, I've run into enough problems with this kind of approach in terms of ...

Tom Haskins has written a couple interesting posts on collaboration in the Web 2.0 world: Four phases of collaboration and After blogging - collaboration . I think his picture of and description of the Four Phases is fairly accurate, but I also think that there's likely a depth element to it. One of the wonderful things about blogging has been the ease with which collaboration occurs. It's natural. You quickly jump to Phase 4. However, part of it is that there's little risk and no expectation of an on-going relationship. If you look at some of the posts around blogging from ...

Rapid Intake collaborative eLearning development platform, Unisonâ„¢ is a web-based solution that lets designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) collaboratively capture, storyboard, develop, review, test, and publish Flash-based ... great experience for the entire development team and supporting the collaborative development process. This is not ...

A while ago I asked in several places if people knew of a text or document editor that would allow real-time collaborative editing during a conference session (or workshop, seminar, course, etc.). My main requirements were: Easy to use ... really made for real-time editing. While I'm on the subject of real-time collaborative editing, I just had a fantastic ... still think the most powerful work example for this has been real-time collaborative editing of Google Spreadsheets ... real-time collaboration (something I worked on 15 years ago while I was a Ph.D. student) finally taking off in the ...

THIS POST asks, “Do you need to be a subject matter expert to run subject-based community?”  If I were to change it slightly, “Do you need to be a trainer or SME to be a Learning Facilitator in the social learning world?”  Then I got thinking, what are the skills of this Learning Facilitator?  How are they different than an instructional designer or a trainer? Here are some initial thoughts.  A learning facilitator will: Connect people together Encourage discussion and conversation, while at the same time monitor to make sure that the conversations are ...

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday was my first official day (this year) back in the school world .  We were asked to introduce ourselves.  I mentioned that I was first hired on as a Training Manager. A lot has happened in this time.  My focus has changed dramatically.  My day-to-day concerns are now centered around implementing, maintaining and strategizing around social learning / network / media initiatives with a side plate of formal training.  I am about to give a training this morning on how to hold difficult conversations, but these type of occurrences (where I do the actual ...

14 million in colleges and universities and they are coming to work for you. They expect, freedom, collaboration ... Collaborative Learning Environment pulled them all together. Get out of the way of the content! What worked: Great ...

... business. We’ve stopped calling it “social media”, instead we call it “enterprise collaboration”. It’s the same thing, just a different term. The collaboration idea has lots of educational research and ...

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 ...

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Collaborative Online Assignments : eLearning Technology I ran across a nice post Clive on Learning: In praise of collaborative online assignments where he suggests that we provide collaborative assignments in addition to self-paced, individual eLearning. Im a big fan of this approach and have tried it in a few different forms. One was making the content primarily collaborative group projects at the start - Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary . Another was providing group assignments towards ...

I believe that the comment format in blogs hinder more than help collaboration. Why, for example, can't blogs by default ... them out - good point!) To me Real Time Collaboration (RTC) solutions like Macromedia Breeze , Centra , WebEx ... and runs counter to effective collaboration. Post a summary of the accepted questions ahead of time (as some questions ... . For effective collaboration you need to synchronize not only the tools and people but also the processes. (1) tools - the thing I hate most about Real Time Collaboration events is the lack of pre and post follow-up using ...

MindMeister.com is a very cool mind mapping app. I found it via Dennis McDonald's blog . He did a cool map of his online networking tools. Its a 2-part post and worth checking out.

This will be my only post this week ... no engineering stuff ... no Web 2.0 information, because Molly and I have achieved Wedding 25.0 ! This new love sharing application will be released to the general public on Wednesday, May 21st (our 25th Wedding Anniversary)! How does one define Wedding 25.0? Here is my answer ... In 25 years of marriage I have only worn one piece of jewelry, my wedding ring. In those 25 years I've only taken off my ring three times. Once on my wedding night, to read the inscriptions with my bride ... once on my 15th wedding anniversary when Molly and I ...