... 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 ...

How do social networks relate to personal learning? How do social networks relate to formal learning? I think we ... Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with ... helped learning professionals to know at a base level around social networks and their relationship to learning: What's a ... and tools brought this home. And I think it's very interesting to see a formal learning experience using a social network teaching about using a social network for formal learning. Yes, it's only one example and hopefully people ...

... for the large social networking sites, he's: tried them all (facebook, myspace, bebo, orkut, linkedin, twitter, etc ... the content or site, I'm personally not going to bother with the social networking aspects. But, if your content or ... - 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 ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... 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 ...

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 ... .  Sometimes it’s just personal things, which gives them richer dimension.  However, much like the Facebook opportunity ... tools to understand them.  I find blogging personally beneficial to cause me to take time to reflect, and that’s ... also a way to track what’s hot and new. I’m still exploring other uses of Facebook.  My tweets now ...

... eLearning Technology italki - Social Network for Language Learning Too many ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... , 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 ...

... pure blogging vs LinkedIn Answers and other social networking platform-based discussion venues? I consider LinkedIn ... can't seem to find by searching LinkedIn normally. This question goes only to my network and then also out to the rest of ... both your own and your indirect network. Social Network based discussions (for example a Ning network) act like ... 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 ...

If you think that social networking is just a fad or is only good for social things like what album you like or what ... analysis, exchange and monitoring agencies are using social networking software to make their information gathering ... National Security Agency bosses are encouraging their staffs to use a new social-networking site designed for the super-secret world of spying to exchange information. The social networking application is called A-Space. As the article ... information is currently lost in your organization because they are lost in an email? Social networking is a ...

... managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 While the Microsoft / Facebook ... 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 ...

Evolution of Communication Instant communication across the globe Facebook & LinkedIn make it easy to keep in touch ... conference, no one else will back up, but if you avatar invades another avatar’s personal space, they will back up like they would in person. Possibilities for bridging time, culture, and difference as communication evolves Twitter is another paradigm changer because it’s a different kind of immediacy than virtual worlds “Social ... basically a live photostream–almost no text. Very cool images. The network increasingly organizes itself ...

White Label Social Networking Solutions, Part II A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch The information in the ... and custom social networking solutions. For do-it-yourself, hosted solutions, please see our previous chart and our post "9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network" . You can also return to the post accompanying this chart. Hover ... America Omnifuse Pringo Networks Prospero Technologies SelectMinds Small World Labs Social Platform Sparta Social Networks Telligent Systems ThePort Network, Inc. VMIX Media Web ...

... reading. The article, " Social Networking and Corporate Learning " is a quick read and could serve as a jumping-off ... them about preferred project management processes. For learning organizations looking to bring social networking tools ... networks in the corporate learning environment . For a one-pager, it's packed with a laundry list of concepts and ... (space-imposed limitations, I'm sure), it does give named examples of companies where social networking has been ... learning" ]. ( Personal request: I'd very much welcome a trackback link , a comment or an e-mail if you ...

... my role at the association I work for is basically managing our online social networking efforts: Linkedin, Facebook ... Ive recently given people new to social networking this comparison of Facebook and LinkedIn ... know that  professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks.  LinkedIn is designed ... has several posts about networking on  LinkedIn (and Twitter and Facebook) and friending policies: I used ... mindset: the way I find it easiest to manage social networking for professional purposes and social networking for personal ...

... 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 spaces; increasingly aided by technology; In order to better learning, we need to understand how and why connections ... ... it is my experience that the most difficult things to learn are peace, social equality and other such very human ...

In my second blast to the past, I revisit one of my favorite social networking posts which is indicative of the explosive growth of social networks. I have personally worked on some neat social networking projects ( Web 2.0 posts ), but last Fall I was amazed to learn via the MIT Technology Review that dogs had joined the revolution. Here is an excerpt from that post : Dog Tags for Virtual Sniffing : Believe it or not, dogs wearing a tag from Snif Labs , exchange ID codes when they meet.  When their owners get home, they can then download the data and learn ...

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform . He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky ... , because it reveals many of the features future learning environments (and personal environments in general) will need to have. Something like the social network operating system , maybe. These are nicely captured by this article as Tony Karrer ... . I also feel like Facebook is a bit creaky and as Thomas Vanderwal's recent post Facebook for Business or LinkedIn ...

... overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something Ive been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network ... / relationships, this likely will have value. Im personally still not sure about Facebook. Its great socially and Ive made ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Conference Session Breakout Blogs as a Basis for Social Networks ...

... blog posts on the topic: Stephen Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning Technology Theres been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ...

Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals Examples of eLearning 2.0 Social Learning Rules for Copying Presentation Style? Forums vs. Social Networks ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning ... I use Firefox with everything but linkedIn and facebook.   ...

LinkedIn Is Not a Social Network. In this post, he says: I've been on LinkedIn for several years. I never initiate a ... social network issues, a speaker asked the audience, "How many of you are on LinkedIn?" Virtually all of the 100 or so ... from productivity, not increased it. ... He misses the value proposition of Blogging as a Learning and Networking tool ... through his network for something like "social networking" to find some expertise on the topic as he's thinking about the ... with a person for 30-60 minutes. Or maybe Tom should ask a question on LinkedIn such as "How do people get value ...

Social Network Operating Systems Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Personal Work and Learning Environments PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) Personal Learning Strategies Personal Learning Learning Systems EPSS and ePerformance Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More ... Networks: Part 2 growing changing learning creating: If this is your first PLE Personal Learning ...

... fledged initiatives?  Can you get a small social networking tool initiative going that can help people help each other ... to be done here, I reckon. These topics are being discussed at the Corporate Learning Trends social site this week ... engaged in the Corporate Learning Trends conference (free, online), I’m seeing some repeated themes, and interests ... , and came up with some interesting points.  At the personal level was to be nimble, strategic, and develop yourself.  Tony ... build it back up (rebuild differently?) to meet the needs.  That may increasingly be things like networks (and ...

Create your own social network , quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant ... wins best open source social networking platform 2008 ... Packt Publishing have released a book on Elgg Social Networking, by Mayank Sharma. Its a useful how ... import and export of data from within social applications. Data portability is an important issue, and it needs to ...

Personal Learning Environments - continuing the conversation 07-May-2007 permalink Slides and audio of presentation on Personal Learning Environments I am in Odense, Denmark ... gave a presentation on Personal Learning Environments. The presentation focuses on the different ways in which people are using Web 2.0 technologies for social networking and creating and sharing. It goes on to assert that this is a major ... :  Personal Learning Environments: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download ...

... than the cost. I learn from the blogs I choose to read and the networks in which I participate. Despite what others have written, I don't see a lot of learning in the purely social nature of Facebook On a certain level, I agree ... social networks. That's enough. I think you're right in that it does come down to priorities. If I'm getting sucked into ... I've been getting some amazing comments on Facebook. Too much food for thought!!!! For those (like me) who hate leaving our feed readers, I'll share: sleepycat said... For me (as a 35+ person), the generalness (for lack of a ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning : eLearning Technology ... development of practical tools and strategies for adults to learn in a networked information society. I tend to agree that ... suggestions like I was trying to do in: Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading ... Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning Permalink: Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning ...

Questions for Learning Professionals. Online will suffer more than in-person from lack of preparation. The flip side is ... Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this and I'm hoping ... rapidly increase and will slow down in-person conferences Prediction 2 - Smaller, targeted, short-burst, rapidly planned conferences will emerge. Now, don't get me wrong, I still very much like to do in-person conferences. I ...

Social Bookmarking Face-Off Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal / Group Learning ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... , 2006 Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools : eLearning Technology In my previous post, I examined Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web ... such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. In this post, I want to focus on ...

Social Bookmarking Face-Off Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. for Personal / Group Learning ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... , 2006 Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools : eLearning Technology In my previous post, I examined Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web ... such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. In this post, I want to focus on ...

Since I’m immersed in conceptualizing the Informal Learning 2.0 Fieldbook, I asked my LinkedIn contacts, “Workers, profits, technology. Make up your own question for the sequel to Informal Learning.” Eight people ... ; Then I realized it was a question sent via LinkedIn. I don’t know how many of Clark’s contacts he asked but ... attention to LinkedIn but this question-your-contacts feature piqued my curiosity. It seems to be part of a LinkedIn ... pariah on LinkedIn. Lisa Neal, editor of eLearning magazine, just inquired: Have you seen a movie, television ...