I used to think of LinkedIn as a glorified Rolodex. Although it was useful to maintain contacts with business associates, there was little value that a participant derived from this social network. Although it was nice to see how many contacts you had, other than consultants who were trying to sell themselves by answering questions, the value to the discussions was almost nill. Thus,the question ... what is changing my mind? The answer is their groups (and groups search ... . If you are involved in benchmarking and researching new ideas, the groups search capability now allows one to ...

I discussed part of this in my recent screencasts LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - ...

... are empowered to search, create, and collaborate in order to fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.

Value from Social Media, I talked about the issue of finding information via Google / Search vs. seeking conversation ... / organization. I do some searching on Google and find some overviews of the solution and some other good information. But, what ... with Google. In a recent presentation, I showed an example problem (selecting an authoring tool), went through searching ... . So much so, that I responded with Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers and LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. Later ... way. It's certainly way more fun than a boring old Google search. And I can use the Advanced Search function to ...

... the Google 2001 Index Search page and just as an extra, here is a link to the archive of e-Clippings when it lived as a newsletter....

This month's question comes from a series of questions I've received recently on my blog all asking some form of, "I'm interested in eLearning. What should I do first?" Thus, for October we are exploring:First e-LearningAn example is shown in my post - First Authoring Tool.I am an educator in Arizona about to graduate with my Masters in Instructional Design. I wish to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to begin to actually learn how to use the LMS and course design software available. I came across your blog and thought ...

This month's question comes from a series of questions I've received recently on my blog all asking some form of, "I'm interested in eLearning. What should I do first?" Thus, for October we are exploring:First e-LearningAn example is shown in my post - First Authoring Tool.I am an educator in Arizona about to graduate with my Masters in Instructional Design. I wish to apply my experience designing courses for online learning; however I've searched and don't know where to begin to actually learn how to use the LMS and course design software available. I came across your blog and thought ...

Happy Birthday to Google. They are ten years old in my 52nd year. Who would have dreamed how the web and Google would affect our lives? In honor of their birthday, Google has created a web site which reverts you to the year 2001 ... A Googler's Odyssey: Google 2001 Index and Search search against the 2001 index pull up either the 2008 or 2001 web site result Have some fun. Google has used the Internet Archive versions to make this service. For your fun, I've compared the Beatles. The 2001 web was pretty basic, and required the user to make some choices. Today's site ...

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals where someone said:I am currently trying to find a SME experienced with Moodle (a CMS/LMS) and WizIQ (synchronous web class technology). I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. I have yet to discover (through further research) which (if any) of the responses will be most helpful to me. This is definitely a knowledge work task where talking to someone will help.

... note service that lets people search, create and share multimedia content via a quick note from anywhere with everyone Ping.fm, Simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap Web Search Strategies in Plain English, Another video from CommonCraft designed to help you get more out of your web searches.

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So Monitter looks pretty slick. You enter three keywords and then Monitter tracks those words in twitter and pushes the results into three columns. Each column has its own RSS feed (e-Learning, Oehlert, eLearning) and you can restrict the search by distance if you want. Nicely done....I could see this and/or its accompanying widget being a sort of dashboard for tracking twitter feeds relevant to or from within your organization. Could we get Monitter for Yammer?

So Monitter looks pretty slick. You enter three keywords and then Monitter tracks those words in twitter and pushes the results into three columns. Each column has its own RSS feed (e-Learning, Oehlert, eLearning) and you can restrict the search by distance if you want. Nicely done....I could see this and/or its accompanying widget being a sort of dashboard for tracking twitter feeds relevant to or from within your organization. Could we get Monitter for Yammer?

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and micro-blogging services.It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the webâ¬"s social media landscape in real-time.Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can ...

Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content ... thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain ... or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout ... try a search on "federal reserve". This could be huge if expanded to other content. If you only think of YouTube as a provider of whimsical video, then you are missing the boat. See my prior post on using Google Video or YouTube as a research tool, or check out my own YouTube channel.

Google Labs has quietly rolled out a new search capability which allows one to search the audio content of YouTube videos. Right now they are only indexing political content ... thus if you want to see what Obama or McCain ... or any other politican is saying about the proposed federal bailout ... try a search on "federal reserve". This could be huge if expanded to other content. If you only think of YouTube as a provider of whimsical video, then you are missing the boat. See my prior post on using Google Video or YouTube as a research tool, or check out my own YouTube channel.

... take a look at their new search engine ... you know ... better kind of mouse trap and all that kind of nonsense. While Google will remain my main search bookmark, I was pleasantly surprised with my SoftFix results and they are now part of my search tools. Let me explain the process (and give you some screen shots): Using the SortFix User Interface ... you ... 're thinking. Doesn't Google already provided suggested alternative searches? While the answer to that question is yes, the SortFix graphical UI simplified the ability to make decisions on modifying my Google search query.

... take a look at their new search engine ... you know ... better kind of mouse trap and all that kind of nonsense. While Google will remain my main search bookmark, I was pleasantly surprised with my SoftFix results and they are now part of my search tools. Let me explain the process (and give you some screen shots): Using the SortFix User Interface ... you ... 're thinking. Doesn't Google already provided suggested alternative searches? While the answer to that question is yes, the SortFix graphical UI simplified the ability to make decisions on modifying my Google search query.