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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. The cc: line in email, according to Boyd, could be considered the lowest form of using software for social networking. It’s your network. Social software makes this happen.

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eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008 - Day 1- Social Learning Discussion

eLearning Weekly

Take any company directory at an organization, add some bio information for each person, and you have the makings of a social network. Then, just provide some type of instant messaging tool. That’s an easy way to get started, rather than implementing some big, expensive software package.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms" (Andrew McAfee)

Mark Oehlert

platforms -- blogs, wikis, etc. -- and all of a sudden a crop ofnew channel technologies -- email, instant messaging, text messaging-- became available. "So heres the flip test: imagine that current corporate collaboration and communication technologies were exclusively E2.0 What would happen?

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