Jane Hart is collating her annual list of the tools people use to support learning and development. Chrome's developer analysis tools are second-to-none. It's not just a blogging tool. There are other web-based meeting/presentation tools. tool that I push at every opportunity. Here's my contribution. In descending order of importance: Google search. Need I say more? It's fast. know how to get the best out of it. It's my secondary brain. Google Chrome. was a Firefox person, but Chrome is just so much faster. Snagit. From Techsmith. Also from Techsmith. MORE >>

To those that have questioned whether all online participants must actively contribute to a blog, wiki, etc. Think of Twitter or other internal micro-blogging tools, for example, and you have a classic example of lurking. in order to actually learn, I say bunkum. Hogwash. Claptrap. Bollocks. Learning is a process. Learning is different to all of us. Lurking can and should be thought of in better terms. Lurking could be equated to reading, interpreting, synthesizing or augmenting for purposes of gaining further acumen, insight and understanding. learning 2.0 MORE >>

My understanding of WordPress is that it is a blogging tool, but I have also used it to run corporate, commercial, charity, and special interest websites. It also runs some extremely powerful (and large) websites that are much more than a blog or news site. Here are a list posts and snippets of news I’ve collected from around the Internet over the last few months about WordPress, it’s ability to run as an alternative VLE/LMS/etc, and tools you can use to make it work as one. wonder if anyone is using WordPress for their MOOC? Not too shabby.” MORE >>

Existing Adoption At the very start I asked the audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. However, a few things struck me: A big reason for the survey was to get people to think about where these tools might make sense. MORE >>

Micro-blogging is starting to become a very effective way in which organizations can mitigate some of the aforementioned points. The problem, however, is that due to the rise in popularity of Twitter and its consumer driven use as a life-casting tool, the inherent company benefits get lost in the shuffle. personally don’t care what tool, application or technology is being used to drive enterprise-wide micro-blogging, but it must be secure and ideally it’s behind the firewall. Mike Brevoort does a good job of comparing these four tools over here. MORE >>