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Friday, July 3, 2009
This article originally appeared in Training Journal in June 2009 (PDF). In it I coin the term Ubiquitous Performance Support (UPS) as a better description of how workplace place learning will develop in the future. Comments welcome. ---------------------------------------------- Lars Hyland investigates how Continuous Professional Development is being transformed by digital connectivity and ...Tags: social networking e-learning blended learning work place performance UPS performance support elearning CPD.
 
Thursday, July 2, 2009
We will not be posting for the remainder of the week due to the holiday. We will resume posting on Monday, July 6th. Have a great 4th of July! elearning learning management systems elearning podcasts Competency Management Dave Boggs SyberWorks, Inc.
 
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Injoos is a online collaboration vendor in the Software as a Service (SaaS) space. The Teamware platform enables simple online collaboration for distributed teams by combining traditional realtime collaboration tools with the new generation Business Social tools.
 

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Thus, the platforms are going to be the big winners. The rest of us will build off of it. This avoids the The joys of re-entering data! George Siemens agrees with my assessment about the need for platforms or aggregation, but tells us in Scaling the Social Web that as for the large social networking sites, he's: tried them all (facebook, myspace, bebo, orkut, linkedin, twitter, etc....
Is it advantageous to you or just 'techno-fluff'? I discussed part of this in my recent screencasts LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers . Certainly, the conversations and the finding of expertise via social networks such as LinkedIn is a big part of their use....
Why is Facebook so hot right now? I see two main reasons which I give below, but first ... What is Facebook? Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. At the core, Facebook allows you to: Create a profile Link to your friends See your friends updates and to update your friends Create public or private groups Join groups Hold group conversations (threaded discussions) While there are a lot of other features, that's about 90% of what people do.... So, why is it hot?
White Label Social Networking Solutions, Part II A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch The information in the chart below was compiled from information provided directly from companies in early August 2007. It covers downloadable and custom social networking solutions. For do-it-yourself, hosted solutions, please see our previous chart and our post "9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network" . You can also return to the post accompanying this chart. Hover over cells with information icons ( ) to view the full contents of those cells.
The consumer-focused social networking sites such as MySpace , Facebook , Twitter , Digg , and YouTube are exploding – and perhaps more importantly – as they become more ubiquitous, they are fundamentally resetting the expectations of how computers can support and augment person-to-person communication and collaboration. But will they have value for corporations...
Interesting to see the buzz around Diso . DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it : "to build a social network with its skin inside out". Our first target is Wordpress , bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.
We know that  professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networksLinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual.  Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too. While the demographics of Facebook are younger compared to LinkedIn, the Compete analysis shows that Facebook users are maturing....
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Data can tell amazing stories. Just listen to Hans Rosling from the TED conference and you'll get what I mean. ComScore has released their data on Social Networking today and it's pretty incredible. Facebook.com has increased 270% since June 2006 . I knew the buzz was growing about it over the last year and so I tried it out. Now I'm hooked. Its LinkedIn and Facebook only for me. Okay...maybe I still Twitter a little bit ;-).
I need to learn more about the BDC and how that syncs with the institutional data that needs to be included in profiles. Enabling and managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 While the Microsoft / Facebook expanded partnership announcement...