I am seeing and reading so many blog posts and tweets with someone trying to explain what is a Social Network, or what is a PLN/PLE. Which is why I couldn’t resist showing you these Educational Social Media Diagrams from the HubSpot Blog; This first one highlights, for those slightly confused about what exactly is Web 2.0, that we’re no longer in a broadcast medium where the big corporations tell us what is going on but rather that each of us is capable of finding out from our network (be they people or tools like Twitter or Facebook) about the world around us. MORE >>

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. But we also have to be frank and point out that if you create a social networking space, there is no guarantee that it will be used. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. In several recent cases we suggested our clients survey their intended audience before launching into social media. Are they toes-. MORE >>

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses. Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. IBM describes socially networked corporations as the next step in the overall evolution of business. How do I search for information?”. MORE >>

How far along is your business with really utilizing social networking and social learning tools? Here is some information that may help you show everyone, once and for all, why you need at act fast and get ahead of the competition. This January 2012 article from Debra Donston-Miller posted at The Brainyard cites that while organizations may be skittish about security and productivity, social media’s benefits are hard to discount. Her mantra – Be social–or be left behind. SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES FOR INTERNAL USE. MORE >>

technologies — unless ‘thinking about social software’ is considered progress. That could explain why, in our studies, successful social media initiatives at many companies emerged from underground, grassroots efforts." " "Perhaps more than any other corporate intranet innovation, social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and collaboration — and at times filling them before the (usually slow-moving) enterprise can fully grasp (and control) the flow." Tags: social networking MORE >>