Law Schools on Ning – Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools. This Ning site has a good draft/example policy for Law Schools to use as a starting point as well as a link to The Legal Watercooler Blog post by Heather Morse-Milligan on whether you actually need a policy to cover social media use or not? Anyway, this really only covers Twitter, Facebook and Blogs for departmental uses. Tags: Blogging Web 2.0 Are you allowed to use images/logo of your employer/Institution in your work? SAP -  Social Media Guidelines 2009. Check them out. MORE >>

Ning network), using wikis and blogs. Blogs Collaboration Knowledge Learning Culture Networking Networks Reward Social Learning Strategy Wikis Informal LearningPicture the scene… an increasingly frustrated Bob is trying to work out where a particular field is on a database. After much poking around, he finally calls across to Sally, his colleague, to ask if she knows where it is. Sally, who rather fancies herself as a database expert, is happy to oblige and shows him where to enter the data. What is informal learning? Increasingly, technology also comes into the equation. MORE >>

These platforms generally have user profiles, status updates (pseudo micro-blogging), collaboration tools (ex. wikis, blogs), and more. Please chime in and comment on your experiences if you’ve used Elgg, Ning, and/or SocialText. "Ning lets you create and join new social networks for your interests and passions." Ning hosts your social network(s) for you. Ning has both free and paid options. For some reason I was unable to find the exact pricing details on the Ning site. " Pricing. The full license is here. Hosting. link]. MORE >>

The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS readers allow educators to rapidly skim through hundreds of blog posts and articles to find the most relevant information to their practice. In addition to the popular social media tools ( Facebook , Edmodo , Twitter ), there are also interest-based groups, including Ning and Google/Yahoo! Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators. Ning is a fully functional social networking site. Torrey Trust is my guest blogger. MORE >>

Also Check Out: Digital Learning Environment Blogs. Techlearning blog. However, with the rise of virtual learning community platforms like Ning and Elgg it is becoming evident that many CoPs are dead on arrival and many others die of neglect early on, in their toddler stage. One model that holds merit an be found on the Learning Circuits Blog. Around the world, another blogger friend and colleague Derek Wenmoth created a similar framework to Lees role-based model to discuss the ways in which people participate in online communities that develop around blogs. MORE >>