If all you want to do is create a walled garden where along with your course resources, you can provide students an opportunity to have discussions, collaborate using blogs, wikis and collective databases, you're better off using one of the modern LMS's such as Moodle. For users that are already using the internet in a big way to find and create interesting content, Yammer's a great way to aggregate useful information in one place. Which means that you can hashtag information which is easily searchable for later. Just like that - at the click of a button. Ready? has it. MORE >>

Mark's also deploying SocialText , an enterprise grade social media platform and now that starts to look like what I'd like to see in the enterprise social media space. The tools are a really small part of the entire big picture and wikis, blogs, microsharing only enable the humans involved. Mark advises us to think about wrapping context around your people, not just content - that' why he desists giving contact information and instead gives out social information about himself! Mark also mentions that it's not information overload, it's filter failure ! MORE >>

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. Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? – on his blog I've already discussed that some people are really not getting the impact of different tools. Tools? MORE >>

Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network. Activity stream – for monitoring the organizational pulse in real time, sharing what you’re doing, being referred to useful information, asking for help, accelerating the flow of news and information, and keeping up with change. The only question is how soon. MORE >>

Narrating your work is a powerful behaviour changer, as anyone who blogs regularly can attest. Of course, I mean personal or professional blogs, not writing articles just to attract eyeballs and increase advertising revenue. It could be a regular blog; sharing day-to-day happenings in activity streams; taking pictures and videos; or just having regular discussions. Developing good narration skills, like adding value to information , takes time and practice, so don’t expect overnight miracles. How do you get from here to there? Corporate cultures vary. MORE >>