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Blogging in a Walled Garden

Experiencing eLearning

One of the features of Sakai that our team was looking for in a new LMS is a blogging tool. I admit some significant improvements in usability are possible in this tool. However, it does give us the option of blogging within the system. So how do you use a blog effectively when it’s housed within a walled garden?

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Thought trails

Clark Quinn

While implicitly it could support tracking a group’s progress, separate thoughts as recorded through blogs and tweets aren’t a natural feature. Yes, there’s integration with wikis and blogging tools, but it’s not quite the same. What if we could make it lower overhead for higher impact?

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20 tools for legacy learning

Learning with e's

The more teachers share their ideas and interact on public spaces such as blogs, the more that dialogue and emergent thinking can be preserved for future generations to learn from and enjoy. If you want to blog, tools to look out for include Blogger , Wordpress (includes Edublogs ), Typepad , Tumblr.

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How to Measure Social Learning

CLO Magazine

” Telus does keep detailed track of its social learning participation — in 2011, for instance, 16,600 of its employees joined its Buzz micro-blogging tool. Docherty also said learning leaders should use subjective feedback from employees on the effectiveness of social learning channels.

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Making Your L&D Department Meaningful & Relevant

Performance Learning Productivity

Many Learning & Development managers spend a lot of their time thinking about ways in which they can make their departments more effective and provide real value to the organisation. Everything from podcasting tools, wiki tools, social networking tools, screencasting and conferencing tools, blogging tools and so on.

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How to Monetize a Blog: 12 Ways Used by Successful Bloggers

learnWorlds

This is an effective way to make money online but it is best used in combination with other methods of monetization. I started putting 40 hours a week into my blog outside of my day job. I bought the latest software and blogging tools. Get started with Google AdSense by creating an account here.

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LCB's Big Question - Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging?

Tony Karrer

Put in a different way, blogs allow us to grow a community without going to a single location. A forum or mailing list is most effective if everyone agrees to go to that single location and abide by those norms. Blogs allow community to be formed based on common interests and the community grows and evolves in a very fluid manner.