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Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers

Clark Quinn

Yesterday I created a screen cast on LinkedIn for Finding Expertise. I posted a query about this to several of the groups that I've joined on LinkedIn and have received about a dozen responses so far. I need information faster than that. Today, I saw a post on our Free - Web 2.0

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. Information Aggregation. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. Information Aggregation. Edmodo and Ning are gaining popularity with educators.

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Learning Communities List

Tony Karrer

As we are wrapping up the week for Learn Trends , one of the questions we faced was what to do with the Ning community that sprung up to support the conference. I would highly encourage everyone who I connected with during the conference to connect to me on LinkedIn. ASTD National - ASTD's LinkedIn group. Some discussion.

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The workshop was quite successful as measured by the people who contacted me afterwards for more information, to buy my book or to ask whether they could share our test Yammer and test Ning with their colleagues. Some trainers were still at zero, a few were halfway, being a member of a few Linkedin groups and maybe on Facebook.

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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in social networks. I have been part of Ning groups before, but find it overwhelming, very quickly because there seems to be multiple inputs for information. Even as an organizer, when I get into the Ning group, I feel overwhelmed.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

We managed to let people connect beforehand through a platform (ning ) and afterwards link participants to other networks or initiatives (like the outcome mapping community ). Last year we experimented with a ning platform, a twitter account and a few videos. In ning, there is a new application which is called member-mix.