Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. Hasn't eBay had social networking features for a long time? all have a social networking aspect to them? how is this new? Granted they are being enhanced, but still.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. This week we deliver you a dose of the latest in mobile learning, Web design & development, eLearning and Social Media. Creativity.

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Kapp Notes

JULY 2, 2010

An article, Teens Experiencing Facebook Fatigue , provided some interesting findings about the social networking site, Facebook. According to the article: A survey of 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April found that teens spend two hours per day online on average, 80% of which is spent using a social network.

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CLO Magazine

JULY 22, 2011

However, skeptics around the world question the potential of Google+ with the failure of Google Wave and competition from Facebook. Prasanna, a former Google employee, provides a unique perspective on the subject, explaining the demise of Google Wave and the drama of the Google versus Facebook competition.

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Without throwing him completely under the bus, I’ll describe him as being late to the social media party but definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to openness to using informal learning elements like social media in his undergraduate courses. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 27, 2011

I have in past postings made both positive and not so positive remarks regarding the use of Facebook as part of course delivery. I also came across this rather large sample of (The teachers guide to using Facebook) Facebook the missing manual from OReilly.

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Kapp Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

If you think that social networking is just a fad or is only good for social things like what album you like or what what book you are reading.but is not appropriate for work.think again. The social networking application is called A-Space.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 31, 2010

I couldn't resist re-posting this article which first appeared exactly a year ago, on April 1st 2009. I hope you enjoy it. :-) For many people the Social Web is simply far too complex to organise. They fail to make optimum use of their social network because they don't know enough about its potential.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 4, 2011

The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. Going back to Cammy’s latest post, select companies are taking the leap and already seeing the reward. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 6, 2011

Check out these links for more insight on the topic: [link] [link] [link] And in case you read through this entire article in the hopes of hearing the song by Simon & Garfunkel, and are now really upset, here you go: Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 25, 2011

An excellent article from Cross Pollination Media, titled “ Are ‘Digital Natives’ Better Suited for Mobile Learning? Textbooks, blackboards, and overhead projectors remain the tools of choice for many teachers, at a time when their students are geared to learn from iPads, PowerPoint, and instant messaging. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. I’ll be seeing it again! Properly d.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 11, 2011

Kno (pronounced “Know&# ) is a company that produces an application to for digital text books for downloading onto iPads, eReaders, the web and now for Facebook. So Facebook textbooks make perfect sense in that context. See the article Teacher-student online communication = BANNED? Here is a video of how it works.

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Kapp Notes

AUGUST 23, 2010

So rather than teach teachers or students how to intelligently use social media tools to communicate(like people do in corporations or in everyday social interactions), a school in Florida decided to advise against such silly and dangerous Web 2.0 behavior without supervision. This is going after the symptom and not the root cause.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 18, 2011

The New York Times recently featured a fascinating article by Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin that details the shift in thinking within the military that may soon take it to the forefront of virtual training. What’s more, they don’t just mean by saving money or time (although their games are doing that, too). They mean by saving lives.

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learnWorlds

AUGUST 31, 2021

There is a successful recipe for tapping social media that can get you more website traffic, brand awareness, and eventually more leads, and customers. It’s called Facebook Ads. While your organic Facebook traffic may bring some customers to your site, the real deal-maker comes with paid advertising. 1 Facebook Ads Management.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

Without throwing him completely under the bus, I’ll describe him as being late to the social media party but definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to openness to using informal learning elements like social media in his undergraduate courses. I’m going to end with a link to an article about someone else who gets it.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. I learned that the Target Center in Minneapolis is the 28 th busiest building in the nation via Facebook today. That’s right, FACEBOOK! That’s right, FACEBOOK! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Train Your Client On Training&# Elfreda Chenauls March 5, 2011 at 2:27 am # Hello this is a unique article. He ends the blog with this key message: The goal is to build a course appropriate to your client’s needs. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? I think social learning must be informal and fun. Here’s a quick primer on video as a learning tool from Learning Solutions Magazine. Thanks for a thoughtful post!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

In his recent Wired article (March 2011) “Better Living Through Games,” Clive Thompson describes how editors at UK’s Guardian newspaper created a web app videogame to involve the public in analyzing millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses filed by British politicians. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 18, 2020

That’s where I write books and articles first. Social networks are a big part of my learning, which means that Facebook and LinkedIn also play big roles. Facebook’s more personal, ie less about work, but I learn about many societal things there. Processing Tools.

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eFront

APRIL 26, 2013

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform.

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eFront

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

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 ". 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. However, conversation quickly turned to the temporary staffing industry in general. Beth’s experience looking for work as a private contractor exposed her to the current temporary staffing boom. Should I use it?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.] John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Or don’t. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. Social Learning Blog - January 7, 2011 [.] John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Or don’t. Properly d.

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LearnDash

MARCH 27, 2018

That said, not every social media platform works the same way, and your first step in determining if it’s right for you probably involves a closer look at the options available. Here’s a quick guide through the top six social networks, and how you can use them as part of your online course. Create a course group.

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