Here’s a question for you: if you are on Facebook (and over 500 million of us are), do you consider yourself to be one of Facebook’s customers? If you said yes, I am a Facebook customer – well I hate to break this to you but you aren’t. Facebook’s customers are the businesses that pay for those targeted ads we see in the right-hand column of the Facebook interface. How is Facebook so good at targeting those ads? Because Facebook users are actually the real Facebook product. Is this a bad thing? MORE >>

INTRODUCTION Today more than 900 million people use Facebook, and more than 300 million use Twitter to connect, share and interact with one another. Then we will explore and discuss with the participants how they can use Facebook for learning and teaching. During the second part of the day, participants will be required to work in groups (of 5 or less) to conceptualize a (brief) Facebook implementation plan, which will be presented to all participants during the last session of the day with a Q&A session. Social_Media PLE Facebook web2.0 MORE >>

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". At the same time, Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks that helps people communicate efficiently with their friends, families, coworkers, and classmates. 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day. As a result, my question is how can we use Facebook for e-Learning? MORE >>

Can social learning management system (LMS) software help shape more successful corporate training programs by modeling Facebook? Facebook had 845 million monthly active users at the end of December 2011.  Facebook has established itself across the world as a part of our everyday lives. Why are we not using training and collaboration tools to build off of the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites, without risking security and other potential downfalls? Facebook has changed the world.  Twitter alone saw at-work browsing increase 700%. MORE >>

Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin) doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve joined.  I've come to see this as the difference between action and activity. Action vs. Activity. Activity is something else. So signing up for social media is activity. This distinction between action and activity is important for professional development because we can become consumed with activity--more useless acts with no connection to our real goals or purpose--and then wonder why we aren't really getting anywhere. Having a social media account (e.g., It means you’ve signed up.  MORE >>