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 ...

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 ...

I stumbled across Owen's Thesis (actually its a request to contribute to his thesis) and blog via a Technorati search on eLearning . His Thesis is titled Mimi: A Key Tool for ePedagogy. He has some great thoughts, ideas, and structure around creating a tool that is a combination of a wiki and blog. Before you roll your eyes and say, "hey, there's a ton of people already working on that." I would encourage us, the learning community, to participate and help by ... ...remember...it's about the conversation, collaboration, bla, bla, bla. While much of the content is not new ...

Live blogging this session from the Corporate Learning Trends & Innovation Conference with Robin Good. The end of the content God. The teacher now serves as mentor to help us create the best thing together. So now we're going to edit a mind map together using mindmeister . Login issues -- Robin says, "when you're trying something new ... 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 ...

... or social software are extraordinarily low. Free hosting services enable the creation of blogs and wikis in mere 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 ...

... eCornell Research Blog Latest news about all things related to online learning ... : Subscribe to this blogs feed emagine eCornells Online ... ) Using Online Collaborative Document Editors to Enhance Student Satisfaction and Cognitive Presence Outcomes ... place of MS Word. The intent was to simplify the collaboration process by streamlining project workflows. Effectiveness of ... compared to documents created in Word. Qualitative data explained this outcome as a function of: 1. ease of collaboration ...

I know it sounds crazy but its true. Now you can have a blog in your blog. Actually its a pretty cool idea. Live Blogging is a pain for many and this might make it fun and collaborative. Cover It Live Special thanks to Jane's e-Learning Pick of the Day . Ya know, Jane, I don't know how you do it, but you find the greatest stuff. I'm up all night ... used to be called Performancing a while back. I loved it then, and had forgotten about it. This totally makes blogging much easier. Technorati Tags: blogging , coveritlive , tools , Powered by ScribeFire .

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 ...

... mission to use collaborative environments, like blogs, to help you learn like you've never learned before. ... One of the unfortunate effects of the traditional Post-Comments format of a blog is that topics tend to be focused upon only as long as they stay in the #1 position on the blog's front page. This is tough enough for some individually written blogs to manage. But it is a far greater issue with a team blog like Learning Circuits Blog . The ... away from the Post-Comments format with a feature entitled " Beyond the Blog . " Beyond the Blog ...

... other. Collaborative Practices. Much has been said about how blogs are a powerful learning tool We think so too and plan to use LCB as a workshop to demonstrate and experiment with new types of collaborate practices in a blog. In ... In the past year it seems the world discovered blogs. We're proud that LCB was one of the first team authored blogs on the net but the attention received by blogs have brought tremendous changes in capability and expectations for content and design. To stay at the forefront, Learning Circuits Blog has to evolve. In addition to the obvious changes to ...

Within the blogs, I am starting to see discussion on why people don't use collaboration tools (or LMSs for that matter ... elearnspace both add their 2 cents regarding the reasons for the failure of collaborative tools. So the question in my ... knowledge management and training circles is COLLABORATION. All three bloggers hint at something that came to the fore for me when I started blogging - fear. How many of us have risked answering a question at school (elementary --> grad ... extension, you) are? Is it any wonder that we all hesitate to collaborate? Particularly in a corporate environment?

Blogging is just public journal writing. I've had friends who have been doing this "online" since the BBSs in the late ... will never be lucky enough to have direct, face-to-face access to experts at that level. The public nature of blogging ... relevance. Fellow students can share ideas and resources. Most importantly, it is easier to collaborate with experts around the world. Since I've been blogging, I've been amazed at the caliber of the professionals who have contacted me as a ... of it for education. I don't know if Dr. Fishwick had his students create early blogs before he retired in 2003.

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... not always your friend - Science Blogs Teaching an on-line course turned out to be as much a learning experience for ... knowledge, and sales skills - advantages that rivals can't easily copy. Beyond Blogs - Business Week Workers can fritter ... use these tools to land new deals and to assemble global teams for collaborative projects. The potential for both better and worse is huge, and it's growing - and since 2005 the technologies involved extend far beyond blogs. So our first fix is to lose "blogs" from our headline. The revised title: "Social Media Will Change Your Business." ...

If I attend a conference, I blog, so I am a conference blogger . This enables me to rethink what is said (content seeps into my mind immediately), ask questions if something seems to have a discrepancy, give speakers the chance to correct my possible mistakes (interpretation is a useful yet dangerous mindset) and of course it offers me the opportunity ... few rules regarding blogging however and thanks to Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani it is really easy to ... , be transparent about your mistakes, collaborate whenever possible, make it stick. If you are (or planning ...

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 ...

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Note: 9/17/2007 - fixed link to correct instructor's blog. Some good comments coming in. I've received several good questions from Kirsten Morton that I'll be answering over the next few blog posts. She is a graduate student in adult ... trends in eLearning and requires that each student start a blog. It was interesting to visit her blog, the instructor's blog and some fellow student blogs: Instructor's eLearning Blog Betsy's Blog Erin's Blog Keith's Blog Note ... . I did something similar in my Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Class . All students were required to ...

... 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 in ... are either skeptical about tools such as blogs, wikis, and online social networks, or they're willing but wary ...

Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize with their peers ... allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the company's technology strategy. IBM uses it for Innovation Jams. Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready or not, ...

This question comes from the LearningCircuits blog .  My answer:  NO!  However, I believe all learning professionals should be participating in some way.  Maybe you are more comfortable contributing to a wiki .  Or perhaps you enjoy collaborating inworld via SecondLife .  Maybe you like flickr and post pictures from your classroom, or a conference you attended.  There are so many ways to be a part of the conversation and engage in this community of practice.  While blogging may not be your thing, you should consider the many, ...

... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e ... eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More : eLearning Technology ... Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize ... wiki that would allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the companys technology strategy.

Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media A place to capture and share ideas ... WWW beth.typepad.com I also blog at ... Blog Vidlicious Im a Nonprofit Guru at .. Beths Blog: Channels ... Blogging blogher bloghercon ... Cambodia cloggersummit2007 collaboration ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give ... using Flash for building courses - so hopefully I am going to pick up some awesome new skills! Learn collaborative online learning theories (school) I had a great class about Computer Supported Collaborative Learning last semester ... concept maps to collaboratively construct a class. Although some of these tools wouldn’t work in a corporate ... Collaborative “Web 2.0″ tools (school, sort of) This is the place I am having the hardest time getting ...

Medical Education Blog For University of ... thinking about how we teach medical students called Application Oriented Curriculum. Readers of my Blog know that I ... teaching blogs. This article is a continuation of the teaching techniques series Creating Meaningful ... colleagues on a website or blog easy. To see an example of this ability to share, open my other blog The Active Learning Blog ... . Unfortunately, the university blogs dont allow me to incorporate this ...

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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    ...

Over on LCB , The Big Question for October has been posted: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? This ... were heavier users of these groups. Corporate eLearning Professionals are Blogging More More corporate eLearning professionals are taking up blogging. A couple recent interesting blogs as examples are: In the Middle of the Curve - Good example post that I cite later: Fear of Blogging . eTraining in the Trenches - Example post - Who Spends 2 ... why YOU should. Blogs are a Great Personal Learning Tool As learning professionals, we should all be at ...

Collaboration Categories overlap & aren’t clean distinctions Information & Presentation Blogs ... it is text, a blog is good In chat, Alan Selig pointed out that using tools outside the LMS is important b/c they’ ... in from outside (podcasts, blogs, etc.) Audience is important! Question about FERPA (student privacy law in the US ... shared it with her and when to give her context Collaboration Tools Wikipedia Kaltura–collaborative video editing Google Docs Diigo Create a sharing community Important to teach students collaborative skills ...