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Social Media Offerings which can b used in Social Learning

eLearning 24-7

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page&# under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. Wikis - Wikipedia. Social Professional Networks - LinkedIn.

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Dimdim has an open source version so developers can integrate it with other software.

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LMS/LCMS Social Media & Side Notes

eLearning 24-7

If you haven’t been looking at LMS/LCMS solutions lately or if you have, you may be noticing a trend - social media. Instead, let’s call it, what it really is and what it will be going forward – “Social Media&#. Social Media – Followed by an example. Wikis – Wikipedia.

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The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns

Jane Hart

The three previous posts in this series were: The Smart Worker : learns continuously with social media. People often cite Wikipedia as a unreliable source since it is a “collaborative&# encyclopaedia. But the difference is that with Wikipedia errors can not only be easily pointed out and quickly corrected.

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New Literacies

Tony Karrer

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Social media in action. with Wiki, Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. Cites Wikipedia the missing manual. Not packaged apps.

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Crowdsourcing in the Small

Tony Karrer

In Networks and Communities , I discuss the limits of search and how Evaluating Performance of Concept Workers leads us to needing to derive Value from Social Media. How do we leverage networks and other forms of social media to access the knowledge and capabilities of other people? The new skill is.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

While, I can understand vendors who would rather not offer a “talent management or performance management&# option, the decision to ignore social learning, is strange. It is not as though, social learning is going to disappear. Nor is it likely that social media types are going to vanish off the planet.