I have been giving a “Social Media/Networking 101″ class here at NASA as an educational and evangelical tool.  Social Media and Social Networking.  Social Media and Social Networking, I point out, is the focus:  the first focuses on content, the second the people and the third, networking. Link the people together (network) and they will share the knowledge. It is there that I talk about networking again.  Why Social Networking? THAT is the value of Social Networking.  MORE >>

With only two months left in the year it is time to make some predictions on how social media will impact your employee development and training in 2010.  Networks-  The learning industry will officially recognize the third aspect to the Mentoring/Coaching paradigm in employee development and training: Networks.  I’m not talking about Facebook, MySpace, or Linked In directly.  Forums - I’ve already touched upon how important I think forums are for optimizing your employee development and training programs in Using Online Forums in Social Learning.  MORE >>

Blogging Facebook Generation Y mLearning PLE PLN Social Media Social Network Technology Twitter Web 3.0 As most of my posts these days are based on resources and my readings, I thought I’d continue with this I found (again) on Twitter: A Collection of PLE diagrams. Please look through all the ones listed (the list is growing daily so what I see now and, say, next month is going to be different) [.]. MORE >>

The post highlights in a very straightforward, and therefore hard-hitting, terms the values and commitments one must bring in when engaging with social media. Two statements that leapt out and struck a chord with me: “Social media is your own child and once you are committed to it, you cannot stop loving it.” It’s the same with social media too. Social media (the organic mass of thinking, living, breathing human beings) will catch you and make you an outcast. Here are a few unwritten codes of conduct that rules the world of social media. MORE >>

There have been a few instances in the news recently where employers are asking for access to an employees social media account, specifically the password for a Facebook account. The conversation started recently when the Baltimore Sun , among others, reported that a “corrections officer [prison warden] from Baltimore says he was required to provide his Facebook password when he reapplied for his former job, and had to watch as his personal page and its postings were perused by an investigator.&#. Should your employer have access to your Facebook account? MORE >>