One of the nice things about FaceBook is that you're always uncovering interesting new angles on the people you know. Dominique Lowenthal alerted me to this exhibition of her photographs taking place on flickr. Interestingly, Dominique took all these photos with her mobile phone, which is embarrassing for those of us with digital SLRs. She credits the quality of her work to the "wonderful and insightful feedback I have through my Flickr friends" - another endorsement of the learning power inherent within social networking. Take a look - I think Dominique's a real talent.

I had an interesting comment from Mark on my article on Applying Social Networking in the Workplace. This statement got me thinking: I think social networks within an organisation will become tremendously useful - think of the opportunities for knowledge sharing through the creation of pools of expertise across the organisation consisting of people who would otherwise be locked into ...

These guys keep crankin' 'em out. I love it! Social Networking is also Social Learning. I think deepest learning comes from human connections and Social Networking tools make it easier than ever to connect to the people you want to learn something from, or with whom you are willing to learn with, together, collaboratively. Before there was online social networking I remember reading business books about the power of the "rollodex": Important successful people ALWAYS had a massive rollodex. At the time I remember thinking about the dozen or so people that I had on a piece ...

I wrote this article back in November for Learning Technologies magazine. I'm placing it here as a matter of record and to note that social networking tools are clearly important to accelerating the (effective) learning process. --------------------------------- We are social animals by nature, so any technology that allows us to connect more efficiently and effectively with others will ...

Data can tell amazing stories. Just listen to Hans Rosling from the TED conference and you'll get what I mean. ComScore has released their data on Social Networking today and it's pretty incredible. Facebook.com has increased 270% since June 2006 . I knew the buzz was growing about it over the last year and so I tried it out. Now I'm hooked. Its LinkedIn and Facebook only for me. Okay...maybe I still Twitter a little bit ;-) ...

... 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 ...

... great social networking features that make it easy to share your knowledge and establish connections with others in ...

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!

Facebook buys Parakey Facebook has just acquired an Operating System. A WHAT? Why in the heck, would a social networking company buy an OS company? From INSIDE FACEBOOK So what they also get are the 2 brains behind the creation of Firefox. Firefox's incredible flexibility and openness is what made it attractive to the Facebook folks. Facebook opened up to developers and now it has blown away the competition. Firefox did the same and grew quickly as the #1 alternative to IE. eLearning and Social Networking When I talk about social networking apps being something to watch in ...

There were some interesting stats in the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's People Management magazine last week, in an article entitled Face to face with social networking. Apparently, in the UK: 20% of firms use social networking sites to research applications. 68% use search engines to check candidates. 70% of London firms block the use of Facebook at work. 51% of recruiters think social networking poses a challenge to traditional recruitment. 60% of firms would check a candidate's blog. 65% of university students are Facebook users. Facebook's ...

Just a suggestion for sociological research in social networking software's. In a divorce you want to do two things: split up everything of value and leave the past behind while moving on without too much of a hassle. Facebook and other social networking sites make this virtually impossible. You know how it goes. You split up, you divide books, cd's ... there is something like a constraining order for social networks? I am lucky, my ex-partners and I get along just fine ... that are 'your' friends. And because your friends are polite, they add your ex-partner to their network. By now you ...

... of weeks later, my expectations remain very fuzzy. Obviously I have a professional interest in social networking and am ... obviously not alone in my aspirations. Brent Schenkler points to the latest data on social networking sites, which shows how ... . We are taking social networking to an extreme where it will seem like too much of good thing. Getting bombarded ...

Tony Karrer of the eLearning Technology blog invited me to take part in a new site called eLearning Learning . This new site brings a collection of ed tech related blogs together making it very easy to research a variety of topics without jumping from blog to blog. Tony describes it best with this quote; "This is the beginning of a community portal where the community will help to collect and organize the best content from blogs and web sites. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding eLearning." - Tony ...

Scaling the Social Web . The article tells us that various players are adding social networking features to their sites: A ... (bookmarks), etc. all have a social networking aspect to them? The point is that its probably natural for lots of sites to have social networking type features and functions for visitors. This is something we are commonly doing on sites today ... value proposition. The article does point out that as many more sites add social networking features, the issue of everyone dealing with many different split social networks is going to be problematic. Unless I'm really passionate ...

Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in social networks. I have been part of Ning groups before ... how to ignore the chatter. How do we do this in the social network environment? And, I think that the course fell right ... , but it's also how conversation, content spread across social networks. Still, if I ask, what would I want to ...

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 ...

The more and more I get into the OpenSource Learning project with the Masie Consortium, the more I see the incredible possibilities. XplanaZine has taken the social networking idea in the world of quiz creation . Cool! I hadn't thought of that yet. Multiple people helping to craft the perfect assessments instead of random content experts writing their own and trying to be tricky...or worse funny. I'm sure you all have taken a quiz where the last choice is always something completely off-the-wall, or goofy...Yikes, I've even written a few of those in my past. "According ...

... offices, social networking-style technologies are quickly becoming a very real possibility for even the most ...

Luis Suarez and Dennis McDonald have posted about the issues with the large number of social networking sites: Your Single Social Network - ClaimID and Identity 2.0 to the Rescue? Is There Such a Thing as "Social Networking Fatigue"? In these posts they discuss the fact that with as many social networking sites (and I would add other kinds of Web ... several conversations recently where someone wanted me to be involved in their network and my strong suggestion was to figure out how to use my blog's RSS feed within their network so I could continue to do what I'm doing now, but allow me ...

Jon Chase from Popular Science recently wrote an article on the etiquette of social networking sites . Ultimately, he is still pro-social networking sites, but he raises a lot of good points about the etiquette on these sites. Excerpt from the article... Once you've joined a social-network site and built up a profile, it becomes a free-for-all. Too many of us think it's perfectly reasonable to spam complete strangers into joining their network of "friends," with no ... with different social networking sites (plus receiving all of the "Great Saving" emails from any number of ...

... recognize the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or ... that we face right now that I described in Social Networking Entrepreneurial Opportunities on my SoCal CTO Blog ... with was the statement that: The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is ... consider the social operating system to be "next generation social networking" - rather it's a layer that allows us to have transportable information between all the places that knows about our information. Social networking sits on ...

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 Examples ... 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 ...

I just read David Warlicks' post - I Just Don't Get it Yet â€" Social Networks where he discusses his recent experience with several Ning generated social networks including: I've joined Library 2.0 , School 2.0 , and Classroom 2.0 ... dull to know it. So please explain. I've tried out several social network tools and have had a similar reaction. I ... social networks that will take off, but any network that is a closed system needs something as a hook to achieve critical ... people joined the network, I would join to be able to participate - but - that's not really going to happen. If you ...

1) from elearningpost - MIT Video John Seely Brown 2) from Dion Hinchcliffe - Social Media Goes ...

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 ...

... etc. This social networking site is a great way to connect with other faculty members at other institutions working on ... fits nicely into the Connectivism course topic for week 5: Groups and Networks.

... thing is certain in my mind: Closed off Exclusive Social networks - Blackboard-style are NOT going to fly...at ...

Building and Social Networking. Build relationships online, nurture a community, engage and inspire others to action.  ... , but I'm real close. Unfortunately, my social media activities kinda dropped off while I was off-grid  Is that ... ?  What's the proper amount of time to invest in social media? Ironically, I've actually felt that I don't do enough.  Even as I champion to my friends the need to budget time investments in social media, I admittedly, tend ... for her work in using social media for humanitarian purposes ,  tackled just that question recently. Her ...

... for sensemaking; our need to socialize and negotiate around knowledge; our patterning mind; our desire to exceed our humanity through technology; Connectivism = knowledge is networked and distributed; the experience of learning is one of forming new neural, conceptual and external networks; occurs in complex, chaotic, shifting ... ... it is my experience that the most difficult things to learn are peace, social equality and other such very human though ... ) networks to find answers. But that is okay, we did do this in the past (International researchers, well traveled ...