Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

The recent arrival of a new social network in the form of Google+ has given cause for reflection from some long-serving social media users and advocates. More remarkably, George Siemens, the founding father of connectivism, reports how he is losing interest in social media : Google+ was a bit of a breaking point for me.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As I have been travelling east and west across the UK this week, I’ve been taking a look at Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers on my Kindle. Social media for trainers isn’t really aimed at people like me, even though I’m seriously engaged with social media and, at least some of the time, I qualify as being a trainer.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Josie's a real expert on social media and I value her opinions highly. On the other hand: Few of my colleagues are on Twitter and, of those who are, it looks like quite a few rarely update their status. Twitter would be much more valuable if all my colleagues were doing it and often. After all, all that twitters.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 22, 2011

A video with media alongside (typically slides, but could also be Flash movies, Twitter feeds, web pages, etc.). The media with accompanying audio. In the case of the second option that's a lot to look at, so the embeddable player provides the option of viewing the media component in a separate pop-up window.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

The BBC news website describes a new Ofcom report which surveyed 1138 adults in the UK to determine how they spend their time, in particular the media they consume. Television still dominates people's media habits, with the average person spending around 3.8 The findings are startling. hours watching television every day.”

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Clive on Learning

JULY 15, 2010

A recent article in The Economist, The evolving blogosphere , clarified for me how blogs have changed over the past five years and where they now sit amongst the panoply of social media applications.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2010

There was some consternation on Twitter about the results of the survey that Alison Rossett and James Marshall conducted with 968 ASTD and eLearning Guild members in mid 2009. What there isn’t, is a large groundswell of pressure to change methods or media.

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