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8 Types of Online Communities: Examples & Tips on How to Build Yours

learnWorlds

For example, Reddit subreddits are dedicated to specific hobbies or Facebook groups centered around particular interests, such as music, gardening or photography. Examples: Reddit subreddits, Pinterest, Facebook groups for specific hobbies or podcast communities. Examples: LinkedIn groups and industry-specific forums.

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How the Fastest Growing Companies are Using Social Media

Upside Learning

Questions probed the familiarity of respondents with six prominent social media (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis). Soon, there will be very few companies NOT using any of the social media. Three things that stand out for us: 1.

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My History of Live Blogged Notes

Experiencing eLearning

Social Networking, the “Third Place,” and the Evolution of Communication. Podcasting with Section 508. Wikis and Blogs and Tags: Oh Why? Social Bookmarking to Support Professional Practice. Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning. Reinventing Organizational Learning. Other Topics.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. What makes it social is that, with the right permissions, individuals on the network can view all of the tagged articles and blog entries and see which were tagged the most.

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Social Networking, Informal Learning, Twitter, & Gaming

Big Dog, Little Dog

We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. KM Asia: keynote on social computing - Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge. Includes podcast and slides (pdf). tags: devlearn elearning ). They are almost household names.

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,