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Social Networks

Clark Quinn

This week we looked at Social Networks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around social networks for learning. Starting with Social Networking was a blessing and a curse. Social networks have a tendency to be a bit messy. As a student we learn how to ignore the chatter.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

The essential premise underpinning the use of any Social Web application is that over a period of time it genuinely becomes self-supporting, and that the students will enjoy the freedom to produce their own content and study pathways. Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. and Purdon, M.

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Social Media And Learning

The eLearning Coach

It’s about having a toolbox containing a number of different social technologies at your disposal in order to select the most appropriate one(s) that address a particular learning or business problem. eLearning Coach: Can you describe the advantages of the social media environment, Elgg? Tell us how below.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. I asked via Twitter and in the session for other tools/methods that people use for Tapping into Your Social Grid. ranellem : @ tonykarrer I've found old friends via Facebook that have become professional contacts as well.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

I started using del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited now. A purely virtual conference ( Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and a wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well.

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Everything That Can Be Social, Will Be

OpenSesame

In addition, newspapers and blogs attract and retain visitors to their sites through conversation about their content in comments, Facebook or Twitter discussion, and social bookmarking sites like Digg or Delicious. Wiki-style sites use a collaborative, networked model to create a human interaction around chunks of information.

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Models for Learning Questions

Tony Karrer

Yammer (internal twittering) is almost impossible to explain to someone who has no experience with any social networking (and probably not with anything more than email lists). As a side note, I think selling Twitter/Yammer is harder than selling social bookmarking and wikis. Twitter/Yammer is something new.

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