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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
I'm also conscious that there is a readership for this blog (already this month over 10,000 views have been recorded), and so, during the time I'm away, I have arranged for some of my new blog posts - a series of 7 called 'Web Feats', about the most useful social media tools for learning - to be time released during the next two weeks.
 
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This great little video from SimplyZesty , an agency specialising in Online PR and Social Media based in Dublin, contains some fascinating stats about social media usage in the UK. Check the website out because they have a free e-book too
 
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Well, anyway, I have ordered the above mentioned book, for I have read Daniel Solove before and I want to know more, and get a better understanding of the overall effects this shift in privacy has on this so called 'open and social age'. This book is not for free, but the one mentioned below is. and it simply does not feel right.
 

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The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. Thanks to the great College20 community started by Eduardo Peirano, I could read a post by Alejandra Pickett that really blew my mind. If you are a member of the College20 community, feel free to immediately surf to her post.
Deloitte is taking a multifaceted digital approach to recruiting by using a blend of social networking resources and multimedia elements. The program integrates several interactive social media outlets including a micro-sit e, a Twitter feed , a Facebook page and LinkedIn group , and a YouTube channel.
I followed the link and found myself entranced by Mike VanDervort’s Confronting Social Media at Work.  It’s a great blog post that warns HR professionals about the need to get ready for the social media invasion.  Those Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team. Social Media in Plain English.
Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. Are they toes-. Or something in-.
and Social Media.” Social Media is very similar to Web 2.0. in nature and not a social media site. Add in ‘channels’ and it starts to have a social media mentality. Yesterday I saw tweets about the DOD’s new ‘social media’ site. They didn’t need a social media site.
Someone in my senior management made a comment that I am very active in social media but I don’t really use it to learn. Social media plays a huge role in how I learn these days. I’ve been comparing the way I use social media for learning to fishing. Let me explain what I mean. Its like fishing.
How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization? Identifying the IT social media users and doing some initial legwork for them could help. This important resource is a rather convincing testament to the ways people learn through social media. value of social media
If you have joined us over the last seven weeks you have been taken on a Social Media & Networking journey – learning some of the basics. Week 7 – Social Bookmarking. Tags: Social Media & Network Challenge Week 2 – RSS – Intro , using RSS ,  RSS at work , other uses.
Last year we've experimented with various social media to improve a sharing event for about 100 participants (for more details see my older blogpost ). This is not too difficult when all your participants are social media adepts, you announce your hashtags and off they go. So how can you still use social media?
I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Summer 2010) Social Media in Training. But there are plenty of strategies for using Web 2.0 tools to support instruction as well as inform formative and summative evaluation. Ideas for other activities?