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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No anonymous users. Orientations, classes, and meetings are often held in Second Life.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Dan Pontefract, in his most excellent post The Standalone LMS is Dead makes the following argument: “Set up your ‘Facebook for the organization’ by embedding an LMS (or LMS like features) into your enterprise-wide collaboration platform. Find a way to integrate it into your collaboration platform. This poses another interesting dilemma.

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Both sides now

Jay Cross

These apps often include productivity enhancers such as search and tagging. The article notes that the products from the big boys… …also come with the downsides of enterprise software–longer and more costly deployment than software as a service, and longer lag between upgrades.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

According to a McKinsey executive survey , a whopping 71% of enterprises are using Web 2.0 Reality: Social media platforms have great organizational significance and will ultimately become part of the enterprise “fabric” just as we have seen with email, instant messaging, and other collaboration tools. We are seeing this today.

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Four Ways User-Generated Content (UGC) Can Make its Way into.

Xyleme

(Note on this post: “Subject matter network” is a term I picked up from Harold Jarche when I commented on his Social learning in the enterprise post; also, the points I make regarding SMN are based on quotes from leading Social Business Software vendor, Jive Software. Learn more about Dawn here.

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