Several social media platforms have emerged over the past few years which allow you to create your own social network. Organizations are using these platforms to aggregate some or all of their social learning tools so employees don’t have to keep jumping from application to application. Please chime in and comment on your experiences if you’ve used Elgg, Ning, and/or SocialText. "Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment." Ning hosts your social network(s) for you. MORE >>

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., MORE >>

Perceptions on collaboration and social software by Mike Gotta. Social Networking & Collaboration. Social Software. social_media. social_responsibility. Project Status: Social Networking Within The Enterprise. Project Status: Social Networking Within The Enterprise. Social Network Sites: Webinar Today. Cross: The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations. David Knoke: Social Network Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences). MORE >>

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). PLNs connect them with a global network of contacts and resources. Social bookmarking tools (i.e., MORE >>

We used a wiki , a Ning network and a Twitter account. think we would have had to triple it if we were working with a group who had not developed the levels of trust we had.  Tags: Collaboration conferencing learning social media social networking Virtual Career Fair and Job Shadowing Presentation View more presentations from michelemmartin. One of the projects I completed earlier this month for a client of. mine was an online career fair. It was geared toward middle and high. school students, their parents and educators.  Our goal was to expose. MORE >>