Sue Waters is someone I respect and follow, on her blog and on Twitter. So I am mighty interested in her recent post on her advice if you find someone has been stealing content from your own blog – “ How Do You Feel When Someone Copies and Pastes Your Post? &#. One way I have ‘copyrighted’ my content is to use the services of Tracer, from Tynt (see my “ What’s being copied from your website &# post from July 2009). Blog Content – do you want someone else to do it for you? The Art of Blogging (in Education). WordPress MORE >>

I recently read an article in The Economist highlighting a report that shows that "the rate of growth of blogs has slowed in many parts of the world. Yes, perhaps it is true that blogging is growing at a far lesser rate than it was 10 years ago. But I don't think blogging is dying! Since 2004, many Analysts have written about how social-media is just a fad and how twitter and facebook status messages will eventually take over blogging. If we were to believe reports, then in 2007 Gartner predicted that blogging will peak in 2008 and then it will fizzle out. MORE >>

Blogging has been an important part of my life for ten years but now I’m wondering if the party isn’t moving on. Like classrooms in training, blogs will always be around. But also like classrooms, blogs are ceasing to be the primary source of value. While I write a couple of public-facing blogs, Internet Time and the Informal Learning Blog , I spend more time participating in group discussions, writing comments, making online presentations, adding descriptions on sites like Flickr, posting to my wiki , and so forth. To fork or not to fork? MORE >>

Here are the parameters I am using to measure adoption of corporate micro-blogging. Tags: Micro-blogging Yammer Microlearning Workplace Learning Measurement Number of members on the service Total messages People with at least one message % People with at least one message People contributed 80% of messages % People contributed 80% of messages Still don't have a strong business case to take to my CEO for spending money on it. MORE >>

It only makes sense that organizations are starting to bring the same concept of Twitter ( micro-blogging ) in-house to improve communication between employees. What is micro-blogging? Micro-blogging is the process of sending short text updates that describe what you’re doing and/or thinking to a web site or web application. There are many micro-blogging platforms (see below) that allow you to easily track messages from your friends and peers, and they also make it easy to search for messages that were previously posted. Selecting a micro-blogging platform. MORE >>