Late last week I posted that I was intrigued with a new IBM social networking application, Many Eyes. The field of data visualization is interesting, and the idea that one may share and visualize data sets via a social network appealed to me ... so I created a tutorial. Now you may share my curiosity, and visualizations (or create your own). Northstar Nerd Tutorial: Data Visualization via IBM's Many Eyes Tutorial Examples: DataSet | Visualization | Create Your Own ... and more Many Eyes Links: IBM "Many Eyes" Tool - IBM AlphaWorks Web ...

Last week I spoke at the Triangle OD Network's Annual Meeting. We were fortunate to have close to 100 folks show ... ecosystem are challenging the traditional structures of enterprise. In fact, a recent study from IBM’s Global ... represented as nodes in a pervasive and persistent network that is aware of who they are; what they are capable of doing; and ... pouring content into people’s heads. It’s more practical to think of learning as optimizing our networks.” Optimized human intuition networks create a meaningful context within which content can be consumed and ...

I've been reading Luis Suarez's blog for a while, and he just had an interesting post that pointed me to IBM's BlogRoll . While lots of the blogs listed there have interesting technical topics, I don't have the time to examine them each ... but I'm not worried. I've found that if they are blogging about topics that I'm interested in, the natural network effect of blogs will eventually get me there. (Or maybe I'm deluding myself.) ...

I've been reading Luis Suarez's blog for a while, and he just had an interesting post that pointed me to IBM's BlogRoll . While lots of the blogs listed there have interesting technical topics, I don't have the time to examine them each ... but I'm not worried. I've found that if they are blogging about topics that I'm interested in, the natural network effect of blogs will eventually get me there. (Or maybe I'm deluding myself.) One thing that it does say is that corporate blogging is slowly taking off!

Networks Building networks for learning Social capital refers to those stocks of social trust, norms and networks that people can draw upon to solve common problems. But harnessing the power of these seemingly invisible networks to achieve sustainable development goals such as in public health, well being or environment is an ... downside is that misguided networking efforts can creates relational demands that sap peoples time and energy. So there is good reason to study networks, and determine the best way to manage them. The articles below offer three ...

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 ... critical mass of people joined the network, I would join to be able to participate - but - thats not really going to ...

Virtual Worlds III is in full swing up in New York and around the blogosphere. The big news is that IBM announces a ... : Flatland 2D Learning applications integrate with Knowledge sharing repositories. The outcome here is that truly NETWORKed ... NETWORKed Virtual spaces will jack up knowledge accidents and drive the immediacy of access to key information and interaction ... , literally. With the infusion of 3Di technology, it is only a matter of time before 3D Social Networking taking off. The ... Keynote introduction Ruben Steiger predicted that one of the key Social Networking sites (Facebook or Myspace) ...

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 ...

Communispace Contact Networks HiveLive IBM Lotus Connections Jive Software ( Clearspace , Clearspace ... 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 ...

My article in Training + Development Magazine was just published - Learning and Networking with a Blog . You must launch the reader and then go to page 20 to find the article. Unfortunately, a couple of things got cut between the final edits from T+D and when it was published. So here are two associated pieces of content that are the article's "deleted ... organization. IBM, well-known for fostering blogs and Wikis, has established guidelines that provide a good model ... companies, such as Motorola and IBM, greatly encourage their staff to blog. They have established policies about what ...

32 percent over the last 4 years. IBM's aim is to encourage more of today's students to pursue a degree in information ... networking has been a growing trend recently and has created a new set of jobs in the tech industry. The demand for a "community manager" is on the rise. IBM wants to prepare students to fill this position." This is very cool.  Huge thanks ...

... allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the company's technology strategy. IBM uses it for ... younger employees tend to develop their own self-organized networks that cut across traditional corporate divisions.

Semantic Web NETWORKING EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet ... EARTHWEBNEWS.COM Business Developer Ecommerce Enterprise Networking Security Special ... NETWORKING WEB DEVELOPMENT HARDWARE & SYSTEMS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IT NEWS ... Premium Services Media Kit Network Map E-mail Offers Vendor Solutions Webcasts ... CIO Update CodeGuru Update CrossNodes Networking ...

IBM leads the way in utilizing SL within the corporation as a viable tool. IBM has embraced the possibilites of emerging technologies as a tool for internal employee productivity and development. But Intel? I don't think so. This just in from Virtual Worlds News: "This week IBM will release a set of rules for its 5,000 employees who use Second Life and other virtual worlds. Intel is working on a set of voluntary classes and guidelines to follow suit." I think Intel ... into SL from with in the corporate network. So, now corporations are creating guidelines for activities that can ...

... out of the industrial age and into the network era. Knowledge workers have replaced factory workers. Ideas and ... spreading through network connections empowers workers to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Collaboration rules. Network connections are toppling the walls that separated corporations from customers. Businesses that thrive ... from training workers to helping customers and workers learn from one another. IBM’s Global 2008 CEO Study ... future. Our job is to help create the environment like that IBM describes. Back to the Big Questions . (You thought ...

A recent spate of posts on the challenges of running an open source business is interesting ( Tosh , Siemens , Downes , Tosh 2 , ). Dave Tosh laments - Elgg is the most popular white label social networking platform in the world powering over 2000 networks. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. I understand his frustration. You create something that has ... - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, ...

... small firm. That's been the talk of the last 20 or 30 years, has it not? And yet, here we have IBM, which is a ... , the same high-level innovator. Hear no evil, see no evil: business e-mail overtakes the telephone - Network ...

Yesterday I had a lot of fun at my breakout session. I got on a riff comparing Wikipedia to Britannica on a number of fronts. Three years ago when I was at one of IBM’s GIO 2.0 meetings I had the pleasure of meeting Jean Baptiste Souffron, who was the attorney at Wikipedia. At that time,he told me it was just “Him and Jimmy” as official employees. So as I riffed yesterday I talked about how Wikipedia only had two employees which I assumed would be a ... as all of us and we need to start thinking of human capital as a network of talented and capable people who can be ...

... realize, 'Wow, I want to actually stop getting interrupted.'" Dan Russell, a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research ... these communication mechanisms," Capossela said. IBM also is looking at solutions to manage scheduling for the next version of Lotus Workplace, part of IBM's collection of software that rivals Office. But technology may not be the solution ... that your social networks are your filter for information overload. If A likes it and I like and trust A, then I should like it. I agree with Stowe to a point, in that social networks only deal with part of the problem. I do not believe ...

... criteria: It is networked It is delivered to the end-user via a computer using standard internet technology It focuses on ... article, IBM tackles learning in the workplace (Nov 8, 2004), Victor Jeurissen, global practice leader for IBM ... collaboration of information, interaction, collaboration and in-person." IBM's definition is the most interesting and ... the "right skills and knowledge" is that we are accountable to the organization for spending resources wisely. In the IBM ...

... from IBM, Google, Microsoft, Sony and others talking about what it really means (especially for corporations). One of the most interesting things was the Enterprise Mashup demonstration by Rod Smith at IBM. He basically showed how a business ... including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun ... ;eLearning" How Do People Interact with Blogs? IBM Taps Employees for Innovation ... Learning ... Brandon Hall Network - Nicely Done? Informal Learning and ...

Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. - instead it's really systems that harness network effects. The lock in is data. Eras - Hardware (IBM), Software (Microsoft), Network/Data (Google). Data is the Intel inside of next ... on top of Linux (open source). Services. Not packaged apps. Data aggregators, not just software. Network ...

Management Core Issues Use of iPods and other Mobile Learning IBM Taps Employees for Innovation Using Blog Like ... , Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. Dr ... Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More Too Many Social Networks? Blogs, Community ...

I'm continually amazed at the developmental progress in -- and growing use of -- visualization tools to summarize data.  In a previous post I wrote about the progress companies like Intronetworks has made in visualizing relationships between member profiles and member interests in online community networks.  In a recent article , NY Times wrote about a data visualization tool called "Many Eyes." Here , an experimental site from IBM's Alphaworks ... , but that they're evolving in ways that solicit input from multiple minds.  IBM's platform for Many Eyes allows ...

... many educators have related to the social networks and Second Life. 1) Kids use these "places" like Second Life ... socializing with each other. So the primary motivation for kids to use social networking tools are for non-academic purposes ... focused on socializing. But surprisingly, kids use social networks for educational purposes on their own. One study called Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social--And Educational--Networking indicated the following: Students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is ...

... job. IBM has long been my model of getting this one right. When talking with IBMers about something esoteric, more than ... ? Even at IBM, and I’m several years out of date so this could have changed, Blue Pages wasn’t flawless. To make ... corporate Twitter network could overcome some of these difficulties. For one thing, Twitter grows a self-organizing social network. Nothing to fill out. When a question is thrown out to the network, people with time and energy can volunteer ... drag their feet on “allowing it.” A corporate Twitter network puts power in the hands of the troops, and ...

... open network. Besides there's no way with live bodies to tag, bookmark, link back or add comments 6 hours later to what ... ). Before Web 2.0 and online social networks became buzzwords. When any online networks occurred within small groups (such as the bored engineers at VA Tech with their IBM 500s, 19.2 K modems and Procomm Plus talking on bulletin boards ... about the relative value of our physical "real world" networks (the ones we don't necessarily choose, but we are a part of simply due to proximity and circumstance) vs. the value of our "second life" networks (the ones that we choose due ...

... concept of "leveraging your LMS." In fairness to the author (and to IBM where the author comes from), they actually do a great job of providing seamless access to all kinds of information resources including learning resources. But IBM is ... , Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. Dr. Karrer was ... Important to Leave to Cha... Web 2.0 Numbskull Factor Network IT vs. Enterprise ...

... is: A Revolution in Workplace Learning Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, social ... class. Clients include: Credit Suisse, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM ...

As I read the blog I'd like to post a few updates on our research and predictions for e-learning in 2008. 1. Social Networking is hitting the corporate scene, driving tremendous demand for informal learning, or what we call "learning on-demand." The solutions organizations are looking for include blogs, wikis, and communities of practice. The CoP companies we talk with tell us that their businesses are booming (Tomoye and Mzinga being two which focus heavily in this ... . Organizations which do this today include Cisco, IBM, Symantec, Infosys, and many more. In fact, this is something ...