... been largely replaced by social networking. People who blog regularly are making a big commitment and are likely to have ... An article in The Economist of November 6th entitled " Oh, grow up ", highlighted the way that blogging has ... 'retirement' of A-list blogger Jason Calacanis, who complained that "blogging had become simply too  big, too ... following them. Blogging may have become mainstream, with many of the most popular blogs operated by publishers and broadcasters, and with only thinly-disguised promotional blogs now commonplace, but it is an exaggeration to say that ...

... those blogs which are likely to support our own view of the world? Are we misleading ourselves into thinking that because we all believe in social networking, informal learning, mobile learning, simulations, virtual worlds and all sorts ...

... 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 your ... articles praising linkedIn on Tony Karrer's blog . This inspired me to give it another shot and see if I can ...

... 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 UK membership has grown 523% in the past six months. It would be interesting to know how different my blog postings and ...

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 ... Karrer If you look on the lower right side of my blog you will see a handy new widget listing labels of common topics ...

... 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 by ... -face colleagues. Blogging has achieved a great deal in helping me to make connections, particularly internationally, ...

... and then resume the more ad hoc mixture of blogs I've been using for many years. Quite simply, social networking sites ... - 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 ...

... social media. Read her blog for some really great insights into social networks and media. She writes with a ... 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 ...

... type than the words "social networking and social media." Here is how I defined "web 2.0" for the group: The term ... Dennis McDonald has a great post about Using a Blog for a "Web2.0" Presentation instead of PowerPoint . I love his ... participate in Web 2.0 exchanges of information, the more powerful "network effects" become." I really like this ... blogs in eLearning? That's a big question. But I also think its the wrong question. I don't think we can push the use of blogs on our users in the same way that we push eLearning solutions. Blogging is only effective if the blogger ...

... source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it : "to build a social network ... there. This aligns pretty well with my experience of Learning and Networking with a Blog . It appears to be heading in a good direction where you can have a distributed understanding of the social graph. While that sounds somewhat like ... seeing distributed, open social network solutions is encouraging. ... social graph across sites. This is also a good direction in that it starts with something that you own as an ...

... pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? I consider LinkedIn ... both your own and your indirect network. Social Network based discussions (for example a Ning network) act like communities. I've had several posts talking about the differences of conversation in communities and those via blogs (network ... around the differences. To me blogging is a great engine for network-based conversation and continuous learning. You likely can use a community the same way, but most people don't. Likely looking at how to Learn and Network with a Blog ...

Just wanted to through an idea at everyone that came up during several discussions today at DevLearn ... How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? or If they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches? Is this already being done all the time? If not, why not? This seems painfully obvious.

Here are the handouts and the slides for the presentation that I did on Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks. It was a fun, hands on presentation where many of the attendees had a chance to create a blog and a wiki. This session esd conducted at the Training 2007 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. I enjoyed the audience and had a lot of really great questions and ideas from the audience members themselves. Thanks for contributing to a great session. Click on the links below to obtain the desired materials: Handouts Slides On a related note: Here are the Slides for ...

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 ...

Just saw this report - Blogging Boosts Your Social Life - a rather limited study, but interesting reporting ... on others for help. All respondents, whether or not they blogged, reported feeling less anxious, depressed and stressed after two months of online social networking. I can honestly say that the bloggers and social networkers I know who make a real effort with identify with these statements. Time to go back and update - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog ...

... that we face right now that I described in Social Networking Entrepreneurial Opportunities on my SoCal CTO Blog ... intertwined. Blogs are both content and a social network. There is a social network around del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr ... recognize the "social graph"-the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or ... 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 ...

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 ... Facebook page. I have an unflattering picture of me there, a place to put a blog, a profile (which I've scaled ...

As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. I immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? How about for blogs? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis ...

... was an eye opener. The basic guidelines I have is not to put anything in my blog, on a social network, even when I ... . I'm curious if anyone does believe that blogging, social networking, etc. poses much of a risk? ... First question - Identity theft and electronic stalking are scary issues. The more one you participate in blogs, discussions groups and other social networking tools, the more information there is about you in the world for anyone to ... . Going to intelius hints at information that's readily available. If I look at what I put in my blog and on social ...

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 ... over 6300 people registered. (7 more people joined in the time it took me to write this blog post!) PS: this blog post fits nicely into the Connectivism course topic for week 5: Groups and Networks.

As promised, here is the second video post of the day. I do want to say that using youtube and Blogger, linking them together and simply clicking "share" on the youtube site make this so easy I will likely do a lot more of this. I like sharing stuff on a blog but I just have too many projects to always sit down and compose a long thoughtful ... click "share" from Google Reader or delicious and they magically appear on the blog, so as I am learning, I am actually blogging as well. In fact, most of this blog page is setup up to be useful to someone without me spending just a ...

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 to go in fits and starts myself. Over the course of a waking 16- or 18-hour day, my total RSS-ing, blogging ...

... 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 ... (twitter, blogs, forums...) are beginning to increase... I think so. As everyone's time to find answers diminishes, ...

... management systems. We’re adding blogs, wikis, social networking, virtual worlds, and numerous other technologies to ... 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 ...

Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start ... actually some good stuff that we discussed. The associated links: Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article ... Tony O'Driscoll, Paula Ketter and I did a webcast for T+D - ASTD's publication today. Unfortunately, we ran into a few technical issues. For example, I was trying to demonstrate elements of my blog and found out that folks were not ... Circuits Blog You might also want to look at my eLearning 2.0 Presentation post.

I’ve been using Twitter for a number of weeks now, and that, combined with several recent social networking activities prompted this reflection.  There’s lots more for me to learn, of course, but there are powerful reasons to blog about it along the way as well. I’ve talked before about the reasons to blog, including it causing you to ... tools to understand them.  I find blogging personally beneficial to cause me to take time to reflect, and that’s one of the best investments you can make in effectiveness. Twitter is a different story; described as micro-blogging ...