Karyn Romeis is working on a dissertation exploring the impact of the use of social media on the professional ... she would like to see answered: How did you get started with social media? What was your introduction, and how did ... and in low resource areas working on tropical diseases). My first personal dive into social media was because I had ... unimagined success, so much so that the school started with a complete platform adding social media features. At this ... . Within my new professional environment I was the only eLearner and techy with an interest in social media. So if ...

Social media's content demand is driving me nuts! (Well ok, it is my drive that drives me mad). Although I have been ... -generation (= Social Media generation). This is affecting me more than I could have imagined at the beginning of my increased social media presence. Because although I have felt a great push forward in my knowledge at the same time I am ... overcome this information overload I have limited my feedreading, limited my social media tools, put a target on the ... thoughts: Alexander Van Elsas talks about the unlimited power off social media that is bound by human ...

... somewhere you must be as cunning as the pied piper and luer them into the joy of social media and participative learning ... social media, but were scared of the technical part. During the last months some tactics have proven to be useful: - Give open sessions on new media you will be using. Up until now I made those sessions as followed: ° introduction ... practical one. The practical part is co-given by a person in the institute that has had some experience with that specific media ... to dive into this media. Although there is not always an immediate respons to the open question to do something ...

Well, looks like I've got some reading to do.

... discussed the following topics: Are you a social media sceptic or evangelist? Which lead to a discussion on the definition of social media. Most of the participants were partly sceptic and evangelist. The evangelists all pointed to the extras of using social media (communication, exchange of knowledge, building a network). But the sceptic part covered the height to which social media is hyped at this moment and the fact that it increases the workload and the amount of ... personal social media apps (like sitemeter or cluster maps ) or any feedback that shows non-commenting ...

... be speaking on the subject of social media and how they are impacting the learning capacity in low resource areas. It is ... ; and their knowledge adds to e-Learning information on a global scale. The impact of social media for low-resource ... community. This session will examine the impact social media in low-resource areas has on the global e-Learning program ... within the e-Learning world. Social media enables a closer contact between those areas that have been testing digital ... this session, you will learn: What social media is Which social media are used in low-resource areas to connect ...

My presentation linking mobile learning and social media that I gave in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. | View | Upload your ...

In a few weeks time I need to give a training to the teachers and staff at our Institute. For most of them it will be the first time they get in (conscious) contact with social media and the possibilities it offers. Because of the differences in knowledge on this topic, I am trying to find an easy access to start the training. Get them motivated to learn and jump into the social media water. I found this one and it seems to hit the spot: getting people thinking about the future. Thank you to walkinggal for putting me on this track.

... network size does not trump network relevance as Fred suggests. If I want to learn or reflect on my professional knowledge ... separate social networks that they are members of. This than puts the importance on the ego-centered networks as ...

... clients may choose to use in their learning toolkit. The elements of social media in our LMS are those that related most ... social media tools and technologies his organization is incorporating into their LMS. Q: Hi John. What’s new with Gen21? What social media tools are you guys incorporating into your LMS? A: John Stearns- Gen21's product focus is on ... extensive social media product integrated with Gen21. At the same time, Gen21 doesn't typically build-in extensive ... of clients. Clients who want to go full-bore into social media may consider the broadest possible range of options ...

I think this image is what other people see when I try to talk them about Web 2.0. I'd be scared too. Awesome work Mr Cunniff .  ...

I have just finalised a new "learning resource" called Engaging with Social Media , which is intended to help individuals experience and/or increase their engagement with a wide variety of social media tools. It consists of 32 ... social media for learning and performance support and therefore aimed at those in the workplace, it would also be useful for educators and others generally. Engaging with Social Media is available (for a small charge) in both ... introductory resource for those who need a very structured approach to understanding social media in terms of the context ...

... generation of learner.  So in terms of social media, how can learning and development professionals who have yet to ... social media.  This started as a quick guide for learning professionals and actually appeared as an article in elearning ... learning approaches. When writing the article I referenced the work I had been doing in understanding the use of social media in the workplace, in particular the Model of Engagement with Social Media that I had developed, that showed ... learner has shown that he/she is (amongst other things) someone who is highly engaged with social media at all 3 ...

... place in the blogosphere relevant to encouraging participation in social media, can we afford to overlook the ... group contribute? What encourages participation in social media? Ka kite anÅ� Catch ya later ... to contribute? Skellie , in her recent post, Bloggers: Watch and Learn , identifies the ways and means through which she believes bloggers can learn to write great posts that attract huge numbers of comments. She advocates studying â ... optimised for social media" and in studying the techniques and strategies used by world-class bloggers. Her ...

... these are the slides of the presentation I am going to give in an hour's time at the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering. Feeling the nerves creeping up on me like always, argh. | View | Upload your ...

I just finished my well somewhat better then draft presentation that I am giving next week during the eLearning Guilds Annual Gathering and I have loaded it into slideshare (see below). If you have any comments please let me know (rushing off to a meeting now). | View | Upload your own PS @Nicola, I will add the Turkey/(Eastern) Europe one also but still need to paste it in.

... virtual communities of practice ( CoP ). These findings are important to the application of learning through social media ... social media. What is Complexity Science about? Complexity is difficult to define and there is no unified definition ... metaphorically. Social learning that develops through interaction between members of a community has qualities that categorise ... processes within a community. Self-organising and self-governing Social learning activities tend to be emergent ... this way, rational understandings can arise through social learning without the need for a central controller.

... it is my experience that the most difficult things to learn are peace, social equality and other such very human though ... for sensemaking; our need to socialize and negotiate around knowledge; our patterning mind; our desire to ... 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 ... is equal in connectivism. Let's create wild savages I agree that learning is inevitable as humans have ...

... recently iPhone apps, on the comments and ratings given by users.  Some I learned to stay away from, others I jumped on right away. Opening up a place where people can talk freely without someone watching over them is a powerful learning ... ’t know about it.  You can learn a lot from listening in.

Define the Social Media Revolution - Social Computing "To find something comparable," said Rupert Murdoch to Wired Online in July 2006, "you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media - which, incidentally, is ... publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it's the people who are taking control." Fortunate learners and PLE's - growing changing learning creating When PLE's are productivity tools to facilitate research work, learning is ... informal learning, the process is more open-ended, self structured and individualized. When PLE's are intended for learning ...

This morning I went to Boston Social Media Breakfast #9 . EMC sponsored this edition of SMB Boston, and Jaime Pappas (one of EMC’s Social Media Managers) was one of the featured speakers. She did a great job talking about EMC ... to talk a little about Social Media and Education. One person I talked to was Dan Schawbel. He looked exhausted. He ... business needs. My senior management will not even consider talking about social media if it is not tied back to the business. We’ve stopped calling it “social media”, instead we call it “enterprise ...

Paul Westeneng Wiki Welten: Dutch wiki working on the media wiki engine. usage went down, below expectation, mostly ... out soon (mwoehahaha). A lot of old jobs will no longer be there. building strategic learning capabilities: higher content is the trend in business learning. (harvard business school's management and leadrship courses (check this out it is online learning with certification). deloitte uses podcasts, screencasts (streamed)... (the things we use at ITM, so we are doing alright). one competence framework for everybody and they mapped competancy with different learning ...

Karyn Romeis is exploring the impact of the use of social media on the professional practice of learning professionals, for her MA dissertation.  She'd like some input - and would like to hear: How did you get started with social media? What was your introduction, and how did the journey unfold? What difference has it made in your professional practice? Find out how you can help in her recent blog posting on her blog Karyn's Erratic Learning ...

I just discovered an article by Chris Brogan titled Putting Social Media to Work Internally . It got me thinking about another cool app I saw on a videocast title Conversation Targeting: Getting To The Heart of Blogs and Social Media . The app is called BuzzLogic and it has fascinating way of measuring the world of online social, informal ... many who believe informal learning and web2.0 social conversations to simply be a fad, then you will also be wondering ... learning". My usual response is, "why the heck do you want too"? If you were measuring the RIGHT things like, oh, ...

The Books - Smells Like Content Online libraries are not libraries at all - David Weinberger Online libraries will replace the basic function of libraries, but not the rest of what libraries mean to us. That may simply be lost to us, as was the clip-clop of horses on city streets. Social Media Will Change Your Business - Business Week Venture firms financed only $60 million in blog startups last year, according to industry tracker VentureOne ... Learn to Be More Compassionate - Scientific American The way you are going to understand the emotion of someone ...

... the misfortune to experience it. In the last two instances, I was only peripherally involved in the media blitz. In this case, those of us who were close to Nancy have been sucked into the vacuum of the media’s wake. Last night ... at this point is that the Media, as was the case with Virginia Tech, is more after the story they know will sell rather ... my rant on the Media related to Virginia Tech here . As I said to my friends last night, the media is no longer our ... other two media blitzes, I have to ask myself what purpose does the media serve at this juncture? Feeding the ...

Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media A place to capture and share ideas ... social media. About Beth Kanter Beth ... slideshare smcwsh social media ... ? Do you write blog posts that inspire lots of comments? Do you employ a social networking or online outreach strategy ... ; Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs and folks are still experimenting and ...

Beths Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media A place to capture and share ideas ... social media. About Beth Kanter Beth ... social media socialbookmarking ... Social Media Friend Really A Friend? by Mark Dykeman How I Think About My Social Networks by Scott Monty No, I'm Not Ignoring You by Scott Monty Social Media Etiquette by Chris Brogan Can Facebook Replace Face to ...

... this: It has its place, but by itself blended learning is not complete. Being a big proponent of learning using social ... not lose its significance) but the funnel, for the most part, is gone.  Formal learning intersects with social ... organizations where formal courses of all kinds, social interactions using all mediums and all types of informal learning blend ... , “ The Bionic Brain: Learning, Technology, and Social Networks ” at DevLearn, he asked, “How many of your ... ; ) Blended learning is now inadequate - it is only mediocre.  Let me explain why I think so. Blended learning ...

... informal learning that reshapes life itself. Thanks to Simon Young, a New Zealand journalist that is into social media I ... about audio or speakers, he started learning it himself (he did talk to a specialist to help him on the way) and he began ... me think that in crisis situations, the only thing that gets us out is informal learning, because it is the natural way to learn. Formal learning only covers standards or basics or paths that have been walked on. If you are interested ...