In the enterprise, many employees think blogs are merely websites on which people talk about their cat or their latest meal. Many don't know the differences between and advantages of such tools as message boards, blogs, and wikis. Unless you're describing a solution to a practical problem, busy workers will not respond to buzzwords like "wiki," "blog," and "community." Businesses and established organizations are vastly different environments than the Web 2.0 social networking-centric universe.

We follow a whole lot of blog – most of them focused on the learning, workplace learning, eLearning, and learning technology domain. We have learnt a lot from these blogs and thank all those blog writers for their invaluable insights on various topics. Here is a list of top 47 blogs (in alphabetical order) that Upside Learning team follows. As a company, we have now been active in the blogosphere for about 6 months. 1.

Blogs in Education: How & Why Additional Educators: Why should you blog? Students: Why should you blog? Blogging Presentations Academia 2.0 Blog Collaboration University 2.0 Additional resources: Educators: 8 very good reasons (click to view) Students:

Someone emailed me this morning to ask how to deal with negative comments on your blog. There's a difference between commenters who engage in name-calling or clearly inflammatory rhetoric on your blog and those who simply disagree with what you say. Trolls are an unavoidable aspect of blogging and it's important to split them apart from your other commenters when it comes to thinking about responses. I sent her a response, but thought it might also be helpful to do a post. What is a Negative Comment? The first question we have to ask ourselves is what do we mean by a

One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. We’re still using those tools for some courses, depending on the content and activities, but we’re starting to integrate this internal blog into our activities. Kylemore Abbey Garden I

This is not quite the blatant rip-off of Darren Rowse’s post “Warning: Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes?” have tried to make Darren’s list relevant to the kind of ‘mistakes’ both students and academics make on academic blogs. Here Tags: Blogging Web 2.0 8221; as you might think, but close. I I

I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be interesting, comment on some, and post my thoughts about others. I A

Week 1: Blogs: Day 1 Blog is short for ‘Web Log.”  8221;  So many people have told me that they think blogs are only good for “verbal vomit.”  This is written on my blog.  Blogs are made by creating a series of ‘posts.’  8221;  Yes, that can be true, but that is not how WE are going to use them.  In fact, anyone who uses it correctly uses it for sharing and learning and conversation.

It only makes sense that organizations are starting to bring the same concept of Twitter ( micro-blogging ) in-house to improve communication between employees. What is micro-blogging? Micro-blogging is the process of sending short text updates that describe what you’re doing and/or thinking to a web site or web application. I’ve been on Twitter for over a year, and I find great value in the ability to ask questions to a large group of people (ex. friends, peers, etc.)

As discussed in yesterday's post, here are my Top 25 blogs for 2008. Blog... The The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Tags: integrated develpment environment my top 25 e-learning blogs instructional design usability guidelines UA Hopefully there's enough detail, laid out in a usable fashion, to encourage you to try out a few of the links. Blog... Find out more... ...Tags: