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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

Upside Learning

In 2009, several new tools were added including the popular microblogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and MySpace. Twitter has arrived with a bang in 2009. Does this automatically means barriers will reduce for use of social media for learning as well?

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

Tribal identity in the age of the Web transcends ethnicity, traditional cultural expectations and geography (Wheeler, 2009). Membership of digital clans can be volatile, as has been demonstrated in the sharp rise and decline of once popular tribal online spaces such as Bebo or MySpace. 2009) Digital tribes, virtual clans.

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Faceworking

Learning with e's

Should we try to use social networking services such as Facebook and Myspace as serious educational tools, or should they remain the domain of informal chat and backstage antics? This is one of the questions addressed in the latest issue of Learning, Media and Technology. Learning, Media and Technology , 34 (2), 141-155.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Testing

Learning Visions

Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Off Blog

Learning Visions

Blog Book Tour: Learning in 3D #lrn3d Allison Rossett: ELearning Isn’t What You Think It. ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Top Posts in 2007

Learning Visions

Instead, I cracked open Google Analytics and pulled up my top 5 posts for the year (well, my top posts since September 1 when I started using Google Analytics): The Real World, Second Life, and Facebook/MySpace : Over the summer, I conducted a series of interviews with over 20 current college students and recent graduates. All female.