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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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TCC09: Evaluating Social Networking Tools for Distance Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Facebook & Myspace are most common in the US, but other parts of the world have regional favorites. Privacy vs. performance–not everyone wants their work to be public. One tool to use: Effective use of VLEs Infokit from JISC. Leave persistent comments (not just IM). Personalize pages with widgets etc. structured.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. What this means is that before signing up to a service or platform, more and more users are performing a simple cost benefit analysis.

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Why I left Linkedin

Saffron Interactive

By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. What this means is that before signing up to a service or platform, more and more users are performing a simple cost benefit analysis.

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The new workplace

Jay Cross

Young people who grew up with Facebook, MySpace, Wikipedia, and Google are entering the workforce. I’m convinced that working smarter by boosting informal performance is a key to survival in today’s topsy-turvy business climate. People have become savvy web consumers. New hires ask “Where’s the network? Where do I post my profile?”.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace

Learning Visions

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". All women. This is a main way of staying connected to friends.

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Social Networking, Informal Learning, Twitter, & Gaming

Big Dog, Little Dog

Improved collective performance: Investing in Web 2.0 - Knowledge Board. We are all very familiar with social networking platforms such as MySpace, Flikr, YouTube, Twitter, Bebo and Facebook. We have new learning environments and tools that enable us to access knowledge more effectively and to share and collaborate in better ways.