A few quick searches of Ning , for example, revealed communities for learning everything from gardening and automotive repair to javascript and Web 2.0 Social networks like Facebook and Linked-In are being used by people to connect and learn, and user-defined spaces on Ning or Grou.ps Courtesy of lisa_funtime Free education? 

Use Ning to build online communities and memorable learning experiences.  Ning is a free social networking platform that offers a wide array of features and capabilities.  My recent experiences with Ning (as a learner) have been excellent!  ( Work Literacy Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals , 25 Tools by Networks can be public or private, which gives facilitators greater control over the direction of their communities. I

for Learning Professionals , hosted at Ning by Michele Martin , Harold Jarche , and Tony Karrer .  By the way, the Work Literacy Ning is free, and it will continue to be a valuable resource after the workshop has concluded.  For example, I was inspired by the Work Literacy Ning to start this blog, and I didn’t have to pay hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dollars for a F2F registration, travel expenses, hotel fees, and time away from home and work. This post was spurred by Tony Karrer’s comparison of Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences . Obviously,

My guess is that most everyone who saw it prior to the session had taken my advice from long ago Stop Reading - Skim Dive Skim and really just skimmed it. Social Learning Communities It was interesting that ASTD DC / Todd Slater has created a Ning community. our LearnTrends site that’s hosted by Ning, is an issue. I recently posted my Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010 and did a presentation on the topic. You can access a WebEx recording of the presentation here: https://nethope.webex.com/nethope/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=58772167&rKey=9ac6286700094e6f

Henry Ford or even David Gef­fen… feed the machine, keep it run­ning smoothly, pay as little as you can, make as much as you can. Here is Seth Godin being interviewed by Hugh Macleod : In a sta­ble envi­ron­ment, we worship the effi­cient fac­tory. In our post-industrial world, though, fac­tory worship is a non star­ter.

Also recognized: Facebook and NING All It is happening in free tools like NING or in less-structured, less-resource intensive environments like Confluence. Congrats As followers of this blog and of our reserach well know, social learning is changing the learning industry in ways both explicit and implicit. It is not surprising then that ELearning Magazine now includes a social learning tool category in its yearly awards .