I am noticing a hockey stick-like moment for ning lately - at least in my circles. Brent stood up one for our summer session on 2.0 , the folks behind Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations are using it as a framework for all the good they are doing and now its even getting picked up by 'unofficial' segments of the U.S. government. Meet GovLoop . A full-on ning site designed for: "gov't employee (fed/state/local), public policy student/professor, good gov't organization,  gov't contractor with good intentions." I am really digging this particular implementation and kudos ...

The Connectbeam Blog has an interesting post today, it's title: Should Facebook Be Banned from Work? Gardner's Nikos Drakos versus Ray Valdes. Given the fine reputation of the Gardner Group, I recommend you link over to Connectbeam and read up on this issue. The problem of access to web 2.0 / social networks is one facing many corporations. While there is obviously content on YouTube and Facebook which is detrimental to polite society and not work focused (or worse), many companies now use YouTube for marketing, and I actually found a great professor, Jake Blanchard , via one of ...

For those of you in the Northeastern Pennsylvania area, tonight at 7:00 pm, I will be appearing on CBS Television affiliate station WYOU. The show is called WYOU Interactive and tonight we are discussing the topic of Technology & Morals . We will explore the following types of questions: Is technology corrupting our morals? Are realistic and violent video games desensitizing our youth? Are online social networking websites like Myspace actually harmful to hormone-crazed teens? We'll tackle these topics and more starting at 7 pm. So, I will be addressing the issue of whether or ...

... quot; Virtual Worlds: Dangerous Turf ?" Really? Really PC World? This is your insightful analysis? This quote is just perfectly hysterical -  "Without proper security, the potential of social networks, virtual worlds and real-time mapping services cannot be fully exploited, according to research house Gartner." Wow. Good thing something e-mail doesn't expose us to the EXACT SAME ISSUES. Judas, I am sick and tired of these red flag article that act like its the technology's problem and not the humans. The ability to say horribly wrong things to millions ...

... to save this to any of the social network sites below. ... Just a bit off-topic, but had to post it.  This is a cool little kudo for the efforts of a favorite little local non-profit that's near and dear to me... my wife. As many of you know by now, Blog Action Day did some great things to bring millions of eyeballs on the issue of poverty last week on October 15. My wife (a manager in a Southern ... local manager of some very worthy non-profits here in Southern California. :-) Until next year's BAD09, ...

... questions about social media and social networks , in general. I was especially interested to learn there are many opportunities to help train members of my local chapter about the ins/outs of social networks. To hear one of my ... social network-y. Be on the lookout for those in upcoming posts. (If you'd like to help, let me know. I'm ... meeting was a little side discussion about the culture of social networks. In the process of explaining the value of ... meeting. (Guys, I'm tellin' ya, if you're in ASTD and don't take advantage of your ...

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... is their “chief openness officer.” Erik described a “social learning network” students could join to study with one another; this struck me as a potential ghost town. My suggestion: offer a social network that ... Text books cost a fortune these days. And they don’t age well. And they don’t contain local information. This morning I had a chat with former textbook publisher executive Erik Frank, who’s out to change the situation. He and another text veteran formed Flat World Knowledge to reverse the tide. Flat World proposes to offer ...

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... newfound friends. Here are the sessions I attended: Positioning your Careers in Social Networking and Collaborative ... there’s an Enterprise version of Facebook . Interesting. I know many companies are interested in Facebook, but are afraid to let their employee data outside of their firewall. If the enterprise edition can be installed locally, I think ... shift to become less important in the next few years, as people realize the value of social learning tools, such as wikis, tagging, social bookmarking, blogging, etc. We’ll probably have LMSs around forever to track important ...

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Seven Driving Forces Shaping Media - From 'Trends in the Living Networks' From Ross Dawson, author of Living Networks. Also included in the downloadable Future of Media Report 2008. (See article for link.) Key highlights of the 7 driving forces below. (BTW, #2 on Fragmentation is a graph I now keep next to the TV remote to justify to my wife why I'm compelled to switch channels obsessively.) ;-) tags: articles , trends , social-networks , society , media ... allow music and video collections to be accessed anywhere without local storage. The rationale for allocated ...

Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy ... Social Networking Tool or Service Many widgets I came across are designed to work with various Web 2.0 social ... social networking site. 2.   A Widget Gallery or Directory for your Blogging Platform Im not a techy, so ... Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media A place to capture and share ideas ... social media. About Beth Kanter ...

... to Social Networks 10/06/2008 Free your Favorites / Bookmarks 10/13/2008 Blogs ... office" to support learning in the late 1990s, and has added tools such as blogs, wikis and social networks. She's a co ... social network systems, blogs, and wikis. He constantly tries out new tools and techniques, and then uses his pragmatic ... , social learning event will introduce you to new methods and tools. It will be moderated by Michele Martin and Harold ... Michele Martin is an independent consultant who specializes in using social media tools to support learning, and career ...

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Housekeeping). Good thing Brent is translating. Social networking available (liveblogging, twitter, etc). (What I'm doing ... this week. I was at a conference, 2 of the other members (including the Director) were at a local training, and one ...

... in addition to books, I joined an online social network for gardener’s and subscribed to a bunch of gardening ... In 1990 I was a noob gardener. I had a new house that lacked flowers and vegetables. So I bought an assortment of books on gardening. I designed a flower garden, put in basic landscaping, and made a vegetable garden. My expert advice at that time came from a local farmer, Archie, who loved to come and visit. I moved from that house in 1999 and outsourced the gardening for the next 9 years. This was do the fact that I had had three kids between 1994 and 1999 so my ...

... collectors (i.e., social network, web sites, blogs, twitter hash tags, etc.), and then subsequently redistributed. But it was ... even been referred to locally as one of the worst SoCal fires in recent history. Though this certainly isn't the ... social media plays in day-to-day intersections with business and human performance. And, given events of the last ... . While related, they're not the same. When I reflect on the last couple of days, I think the role social media ... disconnected and craved for local updates that regional media coverage couldn't always provide. But some of those ...

... in this field) joined social networks enrolled in a Master’s program at Capella University (Education ... community. Realized I was learning as much as I did in my Master’s program. joined online social networks ... ) Tools of e-learning - authoring tools, systems (LMS, LCMS, Live Online Learning, social media) Methods ... , books, presentations, white papers, research, etc. Join e-learning associations (local, national, global) Take ...

RSS, Social Networks, and all the rest are finally hitting the mainstream. Youd think Id be thrilled...BUT OMG!!! When ... companies and IT groups will simply set up an wiki, blog, and social network, environment in the same way they setup an email ... Beths Blog Your Nonprofit Should Not Adopt Social Media If .... 4 hours ago Social Media University, Global (SMUG) Facebook 106: Inviting Friends to Join Facebook 4 hours ago ... NB Learning Industry 23 hours ago derek e. baird Facebook U: Teach the ...

... organise these. Social networking – this is where people develop networks of friends and associates. It forges and creates links between different people. Like social bookmarks (see below) a social network can form a key element of collaborating and networking. Social bookmarking – this is an online version of local bookmarking or ... , highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, Social bookmarking, favorite-ing/local bookmarking, Searching, Googling ... an online format rather than locally to the machine. Searching or "Googling" - Search engines are now ...

... educational use of a social networking service: OU Course Profiles on Facebook Best educational wiki: WikiEducator Best ... and on Elgg , a social network for education. Heres how-to advice on Podcasting for Educators . 12 Screencasting ... Wikis in Plain English Social Networking in Plain English Online Photo Sharing in Plain English [[Blogs ... Building Communities Through Open Content In Rural Himalayan Nepal Jeffrey Yan of Digication on Social Networking for ... full essay on Networked modes of learning Tera Vaden et al. on the Three Metaphors of Learning ; See the ...

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... with Extension Explaining the Granular Social Network Social Tools for Mergers and Acquisitions ... Personal InfoCloud « A Stale State of Tagging? | Main | Can Facebook Change Its DNA? » The State of Enterprise Social Software Last Friday the Read/Write Web post on "Big ... IBM: A good start with their Connections social software stack, but none of the tools are close to current practices ... wanting to better understand and get smart on what social software in the enterprise could do for them if they get it ...

... social networking and dating sites. However, applications like massively multiplayer online games and internet messaging ... social networking , mobile blogging, and geographic location. You set your location on a map, displayed on ... communities, establish social networks, and manage your online content: elgg.net Knotes from ... ; Resources > Publications, reports & articles > Opening Education reports > Social software and ... Social software and learning July 2006 Martin ...

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