To see if I can get around this dilemma, I’m going to experiment with Yahoo Pipes. If I can somehow rig Yahoo Pipes to notify me of new messages to the Hotmail account, it would make the transition easier so I don’t have to constantly check both accounts. Yahoo Pipes creative commons licensed via flickr by cobalt123 One of the more recent trends in online teaching is the use of social networking sites–outside the context of a course management-based source like Blackboard or Moodle–for course discussion activities.

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That post focused primarily on how Social Bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. For this scenario, I've chosen tools that (a) I'm most familiar with, (b) are provide as Software Services, (c) are free - a big part of the reason I'm familiar with them. :) The tools are: PBwiki - www.pbwiki.com See also - Comparison of Wiki Software Yahoo My Web - myweb.yahoo.com See also - Social Bookmarking Face-Off Yahoo MyWeb better than del.icio.us, rollyo, et.al. In my previous post, I examined Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0

However, I found little value over using separate tools such as Yahoo Groups and a PBWiki . Part of this is the natural reluctance to share partial thinking. "Doing research on the web is time consuming" "I find that I am hesitant to write anything unless I have really thought it through." Firewalls and restrictive corporate environments caused us considerable grief: Yahoo Groups were restricted in some corporate environments, Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, we had to switch to WebEx and that really goofed up the start of the course; Yahoo Toolbar (for

I think IBM's policy is a pretty good starting point: IBM Social Computing Guidelines Other company policies or discussions of guidelines I've seen around blogging, social media, web 2.0: Feedster Corporate Blogging Policy Thomas Nelson Blogging Guidelines Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy Hill & Knowlton Blogging policies and guidelines Yahoo Employee Blog Guidelines BBC Blog Guidelines Sun's Policy on Public Discourse Groove What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On Blogs? One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools.

This Yahoo portal page also has a iTune subscription link. Yahoo! Yahoo! I've obliquely blogged about this content before, but I discovered a better access point which seems to list all the courses (from Ajax to Javascript) and TechTalks all in one location. Developer's Network: Courses and TechTalks I've also

So let me answer that question first and then let me mention a couple of other things that you might want to do with Social Bookmarking tools. Badges (Widgets) The quick answer to the actual question is that I'm using a Yahoo MyWeb badge. In Yahoo MyWeb, there's an XML Button in the bottom right of result pages. But, I've Have I mentioned that I love getting questions. Recently I received two great questions, I'll address the first one in this post.

Yahoo’s Personal Blog Guidelines for staff  http://jeremy.zawodny.com/yahoo/yahoo-blog-guidelines.pdf  Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print)

At Yahoo, a need to hit refresh - c/net Note: At the time, the approach made sense and Yahoo saw dramatic financial improvements. But But those "big company" controls had a downside: they caused people to think about how to protect their own turf and put themselves--instead of the company--first, according to people familiar with Yahoo. Designing E-Learning - University of Leicester Gilly Gilly Salmon, Professor of E-Learning & Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, talks about designing elearning in a short video.