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Social Software Adoption

Tony Karrer

Many of the tools that we include in the list of social software are things that may be more like discussion group software. There is a network effect with the adoption of discussion groups. You may not really use it as a means of finding expertise yourself. This software has been around for many years.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Active lurkers also include those who will contact the original poster through a different channel, like telephone, email, or perhaps a face to face meeting – in effect continuing the conversation outside of the visible public side of the community, but not outside of the community itself. From Lurking builds commonality.Sometimes.

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eLearning Cyclops: A Few Things of Interest: #Storyboarding.

eLearning Cyclops

omiej Polakowski September 27, 2011 8:49 AM This is convergent with what I've already read in the book Building Expertise (great publication!) Diversity is a key to effective learning. My New Social Bookmarking Tool. Jeff Reply Delete Bart?omiej It can significantly decrease cognivity load. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. Social bookmarking, searching browsing trails, capture of communications as clues to expertise. This is absolutely true that people have greatly different abilities in different areas.

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Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start learning

Coursy

Teaching knowledge/comprehension-based subjects are more effective if the content is highly structured. An integration of blogs, wikis, content management systems (plone), simple social tools (skype), networking tools (Orkut), collaborative spaces (groove, and acollab), and the use of emerging "connection-making" protocols like RSS and Atom.

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Build a powerful PLN

Learning with e's

For me, Twitter is an incredibly powerful yet simple tool that enables me to connect with, and learn from, specialists, experts and enthusiasts in my chosen field of expertise. Another way to find people who have a similar interest to you is to subscribe to a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo or Delicious.

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Tony Karrer

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0