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Chatting

Clark Quinn

For example, Meebo is more dedicated to chat, but there’s more overhead to get hooked up (it connects all IM channels, but you’d have to be on IM). It’s an interesting issue, but it’s really all about tradeoffs. If you’re on twitter, you saw the message and could participate.

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Over the hills and far away

Learning with e's

So, I vill here my German practice: 'Der gipfel des Berges funkelt im Abendsonenschein'. I'm sitting here watching as the sun sets over the Alps, in beautiful Villach, Austria. The peaks are glistening, and the bell in the church is tolling. There, that impressed the pants off you didn't it? I can tell.

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LMS Selection Checklist: How To Choose The Best One?

ProProfs

Why is it that people install WhatsApp as the first IM app on their smartphone when the market is flooded with innumerable options? appeared first on ProProfs Learning and Knowledge Management Resources. The user base has touched half a billion people and it is still growing at a rapid pace.

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What is informal learning, anyway?

The Learning Circuits

The "largeness" of that number (like the dot-coms referring to the largeness of the Internet) does not a case make, as plenty of knowledge management vendors can attest. And much more specifically, unless you work at Google or an IM vendor, what is your "value add" to it?

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Summary of Original Snake Oil Post

The Learning Circuits

· Knowledge Management does not work. Contextual Collaboration (IM, chat, webconferencing, expertise mining or presence awareness) 40-50% of knowledge needed is on the heads of other workers. Knowledge Management - Knowledge cannot be housed in hardware or software and then moved about.

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The most updated and popular E-Learning Blogs

eFront

e-Learning Post by Maish R Nichani The goal of this blog is to explore news, views and stories around corporate learning, community building, instructional design, knowledge management and more. Anyone--and everyone--can contribute to the LC Blog.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

This is something that gets discussed as emergent: see Emergent Knowledge Management , Direction of eLearning - Emergence or Big System , and Future Platforms for eLearning. So, yes, you have to set up policies and alert people just like you do around any form of electronic communication (email, IM). is discoverable.

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