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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.
 
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Having your social network on tap on demand really augments your ability to work more effectively. Social. The ongoing debates around social media for learning flummox me.  This is not to say that formal learning needs social learning, but rather that it supports it in many meaningful ways.  Business changes.
 
Monday, July 26, 2010
Over this past year, Mark and I resumed our relationship thanks to the wonders of the social web. It didn’t take us long to recognize how aligned we are in our desire to help non profit groups adopt social web strategies for strengthening their services and deepening their relationships with stakeholders. Stay tuned!
 

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The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. Here is an excerpt of her post: "Here is a tour of my course in which i use several web tools external to the moodle, the course management system. link] - podcasted interviews with online exemplar courses and faculty."
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-. between?
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 medi
Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. It  also integrates with a few open source eLearning tools. Category: Social Networking Platform.
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. tools to support instruction as well as inform formative and summative evaluation. Summer 2010) Social Media in Training. But there are plenty of strategies for using Web 2.0 Ideas for other activities?
In it, Magid talks about the fact that in the old days" of mass media we had "trusted" news sources that we could generally rely on for the "truth." With the proliferation of media in the Internet age, this has changed. Tags: social media and "How do I know it's true? Never received one from a young person. 
Today we present Barry’s session, titled Overcoming objections to social media. Just a couple of years ago it was hard to find any serious use of social media within the workplace, and yet now it’s commonplace to see blogs, wikis and other collaborative tools being used.