I was just asked on twitter about use social bookmarking tools that work behind the firewall. Here are the social bookmarking tools that I commonly cite in presentations: BEA Pathways Cogenz Connectbeam del.irio.us - perl based, very similar to del.icio.us IBM Lotus Connections Scuttle – Open Source WSSsearch - SharePoint add-on Any others? I thought I had blogged about this before, but I'm not finding the post. Good comparisons of these?

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Tools - A Summary - was general consensus around: Software as a Service is Great for Learning Professionals inside Corporations Firewall restrictions still pose a problem for SOME services Security is a concern, but generally should not stop use The reason that Software as a Service is so attractive is that it is often hard to get Corporate IT to spend time on getting even simple software packages set-up and even harder to get them to agree to support these packages. Thus, there is real attraction in being able to sign up for hosted services that provide these tools without

Then I saw Bill Ives Is Blogging Inside the Firewall an Oxymoron? I'd also suggest that part of the reason that I always suggest that Wikis will get faster uptake than things like Blogs and Social Bookmarking is that Wikis can be a better replacement for something else without much behavior change. Not really - see Use of Wikis as Compared to Other Tools . I first saw Andrew McAffee's post on uses of Web 2.0 approaches inside of corporations - quite good at identifying some different patterns.

type tools in Learning Management Systems against the philosophy that corporate and commercial is evil of the edupunkers. The questions she raises are: Is the edupunk ideology saying that the use of social media in commercial learning management systems is an assault on the very philosophy of learning 2.0? If you have a population of learners who have already adopted tools (such as blogging and social bookmarking) for themselves that are different Janet Clarey wrote an interesting blog post in response to the relatively recent edupunk meme which is basically an ideology that DIY learning and repurposing content is the way to go (and somewhat the ONLY way to go).

Now that I am using Twitter more frequently, I am bookmarking links on Twitter as favorites. don’t save all the links on del.icio.us . a classic for the learning profession   http://www.gloriagery.com/articles/whydont jtcobb Free online course: Instructional Design for the Subject Matter Expert (SME):   http://www.kineolearning.com/60minutemasters/ jtcobb Whether for e-learning or content marketing - How to create your own online I Here are some of my Twitter favorites.   cammybean RT @ eduify The

Connectbeam is just another company convinced that the activities of this new web generation will be a productive part of how we do business. It’s another tool that democratizes the web. Instead of having a closed committee of “experts” sitting in a room deciding how to organize the information you rcv, YOU, and communities of practice you belong too, decide, tag, and bookmark. Techcrunch introduced me to Connectbeam . It’s another shot at the white collar revolution.

Oh, and I'm going to go in order according to the topics covered in the session. Existing Adoption At the very start I asked the audience for examples of where they were currently using these tools as part of learning solutions. 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. Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications.

vs Enterprise2.0 [excerpt] User: Millions vs Hundreds Mind set: Fun vs Work Organisational structure: Flat vs Hierarchical Attitude: Sharing vs Hoarding Skill set: Digitally savvy vs Digitally averse Visibility: Anonymity vs Recognition Society: Public vs Private Cultural: Innovative vs Mundane While I'm not really in agreement with all of how he describes corporate cultures and the attitude of people inside corporations, there are definitely differences in how these tools get used once you move them inside the corporate walls.

The State of Enterprise Social Software IBM: A good start with their Connections social software stack, but none of the tools are close to current practices and not to best practices. IBM is saying all the right things and their products, while not current best practices or close yet, show they have most of the right foundation and the whisperings of version 2 sound like that could be a really useful tool for enterprise. Personal InfoCloud « laquo; A Stale State of Tagging? |