... importantly, for me, Facebook allows me to access stuff from 1 place while creating on the appropriate tools (links hosted on del.i.cious, accessed through Facebook; blog through Blogger, access through Facebook; videos on google Video, accessed through Facebook). As soon as I can get my Google Shared Item feed working, I'll be a real happy camper. I know my plan ... I think I found a use for Facebook - for me.... The start of a personal toolkit.... I'm finding that there are interesting applications within Facebook that allow me to post items for feedback, play with new ideas, and share cool ...

... if tool makers like Articulate Quizmaker , QuestionMark and other testing creation tools are considering a Facebook ... One step closer to the Facebook LMS: This little Facebook app is TV Trivia Quiz. I was surprised at how many questions I could answer. I was also pretty successful utilizing the theory, "when in doubt, B". That worked a lot for me. I could also guess many of the questions based on the image and poorly written distractors...but that's beside the ... , there is something very cool happening in the Facebook space and I'm not sure it takes that much programming muscle ...

My great Facebook experiment continues..... I am starting to notice the same phenomenon that Karyn sees in her Web 2.0 participation ...the bleeding between one's professional and personal life. In my case, the bleeding went the opposite direction. What started as a professional Facebook profile is slowly being invaded by my real-life friends and acquaintances. I am also seeing more weird tools and gadgets being sent my direction, shockingly by my professional friends - most recently, SuperPoke. For instance - I sent Karyn a beer. Not a real beer (sadly), but it's better ...

... 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, customers, family and friends. This initiative will start today and will be rolled out in 18 countries where the ...

Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and Metrics ... , 2007 Facebook Enterprise Application : eLearning Technology If youve not seen this, theres a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something Ive been expecting for ...

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and ... nearby nod in agreement. The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors ... improvement through technology. Why is Facebook so hot right now? I see two main reasons which I give below, ...

Why StudyRails? "StudyRailsâ„  helps students overcome procrastination, control online distractions (e.g.: YouTube, Facebook, In stant Messaging ) and stay on track with homework assignments.  StudyRailsâ„  creates a step-by-step, personalized study plan, sends email and cell phone reminders when it's time to study, and blocks distracting websites, software and games during study time to keep students focused on their schoolwork." ...

FireStatus is a Firefox 3 extension that allows you to send status updates, notes and URL links simultaneously to multiple social networks and services, like Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed. It also displays updates from these services in notification popups, for a more "live" communication with your friends.

... issues I find myself having with Facebook. Just on a (much) larger scale. And I don't have people asking me for venture capital. 6+ months into the Great Facebook Experiment, here's what I am finding: - Personal friends are now slowly creeping into Facebook. Part of the upswing is a result of the pending 20 year high school reunion. This is a good thing ... friends are dominantly at Facebook. Hmmmm.... - I agree with Ted - Facebook is getting way too cluttered. I still ... yourself dreading yet another email from Facebook announcing something that you have to log into Facebook to deal ...

Organizations". Accept they call it Facebook, and/or LinkedIn or any of the other social networking tools available today ... organization." Or maybe you are. How do you know for sure? Have you friended your employee in Facebook ? Are ...

Nimbuzz offers a social interaction service combining presence, Instant Messaging, and VoIP. The  free application is available on the mobile, PC and Web, for (group)calling, instant messaging, location sharing, (group)chat, file sharing across popular IM communities, including Skype, MSN, GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, GaduGadu, Jabber and Twitter, plus 23 social networks including Facebook and MySpace. Its vision is to promise complete connectivity via an all-in-one connection, from any device, from anywhere, to anyone for free.

A new version of ProProfs QuizSchool is available.  New features include: Brand new user interface, completely revamped for ease of use. Social sharing through customizable widgets which allow YouTube-style quiz embedding on any blog, e-learning system, and social networks like Facebook. Yahoo Flick r integration for a limitless image library for quizzes. Interesting aggregate analytics & trends reports, with precision down to a stored snapshot of each attempt. Google Maps integration for visualization of where quiz takers are located ...

Tony Karrer found this little gem... WorkLight. So now you can use all the power of Facebook as your company social network. I'm sure there's a militant IT manager out there somewhere willing to tell me why this will NEVER work. So, let's hear it. Why can't a tool like this be successful as the basis for your companies social network? I'm not exactly sure how WorkLight does its magic, but perhaps anyone out there that's tried this out could blog about your experience and help spread the word. I'd love to hear about your experience. Powered by ScribeFire .

... the people who connected to me suggested we might want to do the same on Facebook and Twitter. This really got me ... connected with in the future (PANs). However, this is not really the case with the way I use Facebook and Twitter. Both of these tools are much more conversational tools for me. In Twitter, I have people that I follow in order to listen into ... Facebook, it's much the same. I have my friends who I want to get together with, see what they are doing, have conversations with. Both Twitter and Facebook really are my CANs and FANs. In some ways, the goal on both is to stay ...

I've been getting some amazing comments on Facebook. Too much food for thought!!!! For those (like me) who hate ... term) of Facebook that really holds no appeal. I blog and read blogs that appeal to me. I'm active in subject-focused ... have written, I don't see a lot of learning in the purely social nature of Facebook On a certain level, I agree. Facebook has an overwhelming number of gadgets and widgets. And I am also going to go on record stating that I HATE HATE HATE that I always have to install yet another widget on my facebook page when people contact me (usually by ...

Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Know-How from Boomers to Gamers. For U.S. workers, anxious times ... hurt the economy. The Fakebook Generation - The New York Times Facebook purports to be a place for human ... dangers of "Facebook stalking" at a library computer - the person whose profile you're perusing might be right ...

... about community tools like Ning. Keywords: Podcasts, Twitter, Slideshare, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wiki ... thought and a few surprises. More coming on this. The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. The key is for the charts is: Darkest blue - daily Medium blue - weekly Light blue - monthly Gray - never Tool Use in ... of tools other than delicious. LinkedIn was shown as being used monthly or more by 68% which is higher than I would ... value. Facebook use is higher than I would have thought. MySpace is clearly behind in the corporate eLearning ...

FaceBook, though I haven’t used them much.  Midomi will let me hear a song, capture 10 seconds of it, and tell ...

This week we added 18 tools to the Directory and have now listed over 2,300 tools.  In addition to those already mentioned this week on the blog, here are a three more: Tweetcube - Allows you to share files on Twitter. Added to: Microblogging/Real-time messaging tools MyStudiyo - Create professional quizzes for your website or blog Added to: Quizzing and Testing  tools CourseFeed - Plug in integrates Facebook with your school's online learning management system Added to: Course & Learning Management System For the full list of tools added ...

Common Craft has produced a short explanatory video on Microsoft Live. The internet is starting to look like the desktop in the 80’s - numerous companies trying to mainstream new applications through a new centre. Microsoft integrated a variety of tools into its Office suite, making it possible for many new users to try tools that had each been unique. Working in a spreadsheet or word document became more seemless than when working with two different vendors. Now, the web is moving in that direction, with Google, Microsoft, and MySpace/Facebook all trying to do to the web ...

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 they face is whether to adapt students' existing habits - of messaging each other, checking each other's profiles ...

31 8 Free Screencasting Tools For Tony! Free Screencasting Tools List (Updated) Tony ... for a free tool that works to create screencasts that I can use for my blog. I dont do it very often, so it needs to ... a screen sharing tool with voice and screen recording. And it needs to be low cost or free."- Tony Karrer Here ... are another seven for him to explore. Hm, I am pretty sure that Tony is familiar with most of the tools suggested here, but are you? Have fun exploring free screencasting tools! If you got any other free cool screencasting software ...

Several Web 2.0 entities (YouTube, Facebook, Howcast, Google) plus some academics and the Department of State will be gathering next week to kickoff the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit . The goal is to find ways to use media to counter the messages of violence, extremism, and oppression. It will be very interesting to track the progress of this movement on the "areas of interest". There is a lot of potential to make some serious changes in the quality of the message being delivered to young people in different countries.

Social Networking tool? Tricky one! Facebook Tool to create study groups and manage group projects ... 2 A Free Learning Tool for Every Learning Problem? 101 Free Learning Tools OpenCourseWare and ... least one excellent free learning tool (or site) for every learning problem, need or issue! I want a FREE : Easy-to-use and secure Internet browser? Firefox e-Mail system? Gmail Social bookmarking tool? del.icio.us Social bookmarking tool with collaborative learning features (groups, forums, etc.)? Diigo Tool to ...

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Facebook account. Bookmarking Mark references for later while you’re researching with these tools ... Tips for Librarians and Researchers 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind ... acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive. Here are some great tools that you can use to cater to your individual ... format with these easy-to-use online brainstorming and organizational tools. Bubbl.us : This flash-based mind mapping tools allows you to chart out your thoughts in a colorful format, share them with friends or embed them in ...

Blog It is a free Facebook application which focuses on making it easier for you to create content no matter the blogging platform you use.  Blog It brings some of the best social aspects of Facebook to blogging, making it easy for you to let your friends and colleagues around the web know what you're up to and what you're writing. Blog It is powered by TypePad Blog It [Many more blogging tools here] ...

Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world's first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook. The Facebook LMS makes it possible for anyone, with any size organization, to build and deploy rich media engaging online learning, manage and track learners, etc. without any up front expenses for software or hardware, or any limits on who can create courses or who can learn. The facebook applications are currently in a beta ... , no matter how long they are enrolled). Their authoring tool will continue to be free. udutu Teach & ...

Here is some news and updates that came across my desk this week: The Udutu Facebook LMS , which I mentioned in a previous posting is now live.  With the LMS, users can publish course material, control access, track "learner" progress, collect payment and see the results once users have completed a session -- all without ever leaving the Facebook site. There's a new feature in undone.leftcolumn.net : 'packages.' Packages let you archive projects and ... lists!  My Top 100 Tools list has become very popular and Mitch Ditkoff at The Heart of Innovation has found the ...

Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner. It was serendipitous and quite coincidental that Michele posted her Web 2.0 ... wrapped in some of the technologies. Many are quite technical. I spent a lot of time trying things out. Facebook was one of the Web 2.0s listed. I already have a Facebook account , so I downloaded one of my zaney mug-shots I had on a Facebook photo-album and put it on this post. ItCanSay is a technology that converts text into audible speech.