He told me that Motorola,#49 on the Fortune 500, has almost 2,000 internal wikis (thatsseparate wikis, each with many pages), and 2,700 blogs used by 60,000of their 68,000 employees daily. Tobytells us about what wikis and blogs are used for, how they rolled themout, what benefits they get, how they chose what they did, experiencewith bad behavior, etc. Weall hear about wikiPedia and Open Source project use of wikis. 4,000-5,000 people are activelycontributing, the rest mainly read. He agreed to sit down for a podcastinterview. Your comment has not yet been posted. MORE >>

Presentation - ISPI Los Angeles Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Practical Suggestions: Web 2.0 Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. Managing your RSS Feeds - If you are considering subscribing to this blog, you might want to read this. Comments are very much welcome. Topics eLearning 2.0 MORE >>

few of the things he points you to: Wikipedia article on Second Life Harvard Course that uses Second Life (prior post ) Overview of course and link to intro Second Life Video Lectures Course Wiki A Second Education - A blog dedicated to education in a Second Life Educational Opportunities of Second Life - Educause How Not to Teach in Second Life - An interview with the Second Life founder These are great resources and will likely open your eyes a bit. I just read through a great post by Rich Hoeg which talks about his learning around Second Life. MORE >>

It can be created using Wiki software, a content management system, web editing software or even Microsoft Word stored as HTML. Just when you've made the transition from the prior generation of CBT authoring tools (e.g., Authorware , Toolbook ) to the new generation of WBT authoring tools (e.g., Captivate , Lectora ), it looks like things are slowly shifting again. The shift I'm seeing is away from the design of pure "courseware" solutions and much more to "reference hybrid" solutions. In my mind, "courseware" is interactive (to some level) instruction run asynchronously. MORE >>

The recent article by Dion Hinchcliffe - Blogs, wikis, and Web 2.0 In five years, I would expect us to be building much less SCORM courseware and much more Wiki-like content (web pages) with some interactive exercises, simulations, etc. as the next application platform got me thinking again about what corporate eLearning development will be like in five years. Actually, I'm not even that sure what it looks like today. To a lesser extent people are using Rapid eLearning Development tools but this is expected to grow significantly. What's the bottom line? web 2.0, MORE >>