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Micro-Worlds, Micro-life Learning: The Big Phenomenon, (But Small) Social Networking

Vignettes Learning

I keep on going back to the same thesis which I started studying a few years back: "all learnings are micro."(See" See" 3-Minutee-Learning "2006) I am beginning to see correlations and movements of events that lead me to conclude and see even clearer what Chris Anderson talks about in "The Long Tail" and applied in the learning world.

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Smaller Niches in Social Networking Support Micro-Learnings

Vignettes Learning

Ross Mayfield pointed out that " Widgets and ( Web Widget )are the battering rams that will fracture the sand castles of large social networks." A photo with a story attached can be more compelling to some than millions of MySpace pages plagued by bad design. I am curious as to how widgets can help our learning environment.

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"Abundantly abundant abundance" data does not mean learning

Vignettes Learning

I relate to what Nick Carr was saying about " Abundantly abundant abundance " Carr was referring to the overload of video, graphics, photos, and pages in MySpace, Facebook and many other personal Social Networking tools. This is one challenge in mainstream social networking.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere. Facebook is the Godzilla of social networks.

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Using social media for eLearning (a look at the top 6 social platforms)

eFront

A huge part of our social lives already happens online rather than in the “real world” And while individual social media networks might rise and fall (remember MySpace?), social networking itself is not going anywhere. Facebook is the Godzilla of social networks.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party. Facebook is far more social.

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Buzz words of 2008

Learning with e's

Friendiligence: This is the amount of your time you spend managing friend requests on Facebook , MySpace , Bebo , Friendster , LInkedIn , etc, etc…. Friendiligence’ reflects the oversaturation of the social networking sphere and the need to ask what your criteria are for ‘friending’ people. Are they real or is it actually spam?