One of the nice things about FaceBook is that you're always uncovering interesting new angles on the people you know. Dominique Lowenthal alerted me to this exhibition of her photographs taking place on flickr. Interestingly, Dominique took all these photos with her mobile phone, which is embarrassing for those of us with digital SLRs. She credits the quality of her work to the "wonderful and insightful feedback I have through my Flickr friends" - another endorsement of the learning power inherent within social networking. Take a look - I think Dominique's a real talent.

... great social networking features that make it easy to share your knowledge and establish connections with others in your ... established and potential LinkedIn connections I hope to learn through others experiences and discover opportunities to ... Everybody talks about how great LinkedIn is so a while back I set up an account to see what everybody was talking ... LinkedIn? After initially setting up the account, I did not revisit LinkedIn until recently reading a couple of articles praising linkedIn on Tony Karrer's blog . This inspired me to give it another shot and see if I can ...

... 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 ...

These guys keep crankin' 'em out. I love it! Social Networking is also Social Learning. I think deepest learning comes from human connections and Social Networking tools make it easier than ever to connect to the people you want to learn something from, or with whom you are willing to learn with, together, collaboratively. Before there was online social networking I remember reading business books about the power of the "rollodex": Important successful people ALWAYS had a massive rollodex. At the time I remember thinking about the dozen or so people that I had on a piece ...

... 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 ... I hadn't intended to sign up with Facebook . I'm not sure whether anyone does. But Bill Brandon, the editor of Learning Solutions eMagazine for the eLearning Guild invited me to become his friend and, being a well brought-up boy, ...

I wrote this article back in November for Learning Technologies magazine. I'm placing it here as a matter of record and to note that social networking tools are clearly important to accelerating the (effective) learning process. --------------------------------- We are social animals by nature, so any technology that allows us to connect more efficiently and effectively with others will ...

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 ... . How do social networks relate to personal learning? How do social networks relate to formal learning? I think we ... 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 ... - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ... my blog. If you click on one of the topics it will bring you to the learning eLearning site where you will see a listing ... . Thanks to all who are taking part in learning eLearning.

The more and more I get into the OpenSource Learning project with the Masie Consortium, the more I see the incredible possibilities. XplanaZine has taken the social networking idea in the world of quiz creation . Cool! I hadn't thought of that yet. Multiple people helping to craft the perfect assessments instead of random content experts writing their own and trying to be tricky...or worse funny. I'm sure you all have taken a quiz where the last choice is always ... educational psychologists, the problem with most quizzes is that they do not encourage active learning. Further, some ...

Learning at Nick.com .) Eighty-one percent say they have visited a social networking Web site within the past three ... 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 ...

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 ... also a way to track what’s hot and new. I’m still exploring other uses of Facebook.  My tweets now appear ... all of them. I really appreciated Tony Karrer’s pointer on how to use LinkedIn , by the way. I’ve seen ...

... offices, social networking-style technologies are quickly becoming a very real possibility for even the most conservative ... Communities of Practice: Addressing Workforce Trends Through New Learning Models Some good quotes from the article above: "Organizations would be well-advised to shift budgets and resources from formal learning settings to informal situations where the majority of learning actually takes place." "Organizations need to recognize that to attract ... DEEP learning within and across job business functions. There are many online technologies and tools that can begin ...

... eLearning Technology italki - Social Network for Language Learning Too many ... , 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 description ... / Social Networking and LMS Merger Permalink: Communities / Social Networking and LMS ...

... 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 ...

... social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. They are almost household names. This is not so of a new generation of social networking technology, which is being used to provide software services ... . Informal learning - the next big thing? - Training Zone We are on the threshold of a paradigm shift in learning. We have new learning environments and tools that enable us to access knowledge more effectively and to share and collaborate in ... . KM Asia: keynote on social computing - Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge Includes podcast and slides (pdf).

... 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 ...

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 ... ; instead, they are enlarging the range of options for learners. We’re not doing away with email. Or even learning management systems. We’re adding blogs, wikis, social networking, virtual worlds, and numerous other technologies to ... students' lead on technologies they prefer, from Web-based e-mail to Facebook to text messaging. Now, the dilemma ...

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 ...

... thing is certain in my mind: Closed off Exclusive Social networks - Blackboard-style are NOT going to fly...at least ... I'd like to get in on the group think over at e-Clippings . The new thoughts on what learning widgets and LMSs might be like is very interesting to me. I've long been thinking about the Learning Dashboard. The Google analytics view is a great example of dynamic data presentation. It doesn't matter WHAT the data is, so why not load something like ... doubt blend into Learning. Its a natural progression that is simply going to take some time, but it will ...

... location-based social networking, what applications do you imagine for corporate learning programs?   ... This one's a recent article by Ross Dawson about trends in location-based mobile social networking.  Included, too, is a link to an excellent TechCrunch summary on the state of location-based social networking apps on the ... location-based social networking: The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people's familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is - finally - ready to take off.  ...

... 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 ...

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, meaningful post. I basically do the same thing with the "items I'm reading" and "delicious" links on this page. I just click "share" from Google Reader or delicious and they magically appear on the blog, so as I am learning, I am ...

... more generic content asignments (granted, this will not work for proprietary learning materials). Can you think of ...

... 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 ...

... italki is an interesting website in the language learning space - which seems to be very busy these days. They provide the ability to connect with other learners who are trying to learn a language. People find each other using the site and then connect via chat, IM, voice/Skype, etc. There are other resources, but the use of a social network to find people who can help each other learn the language is a great idea. Not sure if it can work in practice given the many other barriers that will come up. I'd be curious what people think about this as a learning mechanism.

Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide' - c/net "What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st century skills we want them to develop to be successful today," Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies researcher from the school's College of Education and Human Development, said in a release Friday. Water woes, trouble, and training - Dave's Whiteboard A one-page guide to performance problem analysis, just in case the cause of the problem is not restricted to a lack of skill or knowledge. The Myth ...

Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start as a Learning Professional? Start with yourself and your work group Adopt tools that are free and password protected ... actually some good stuff that we discussed. The associated links: Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) Today's PowerPoint Presentation ASTD homepage Webcast Archives T+D magazine website Learning ... 1.0 to 2.0 and Learning 1.0 to Learning 2.0. It's a bit different than my comparison of eLearning 1.0 to 1.3 to ...

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 ...