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Bloomfire Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Bloomfire addresses old-school productivity problems with a new-school approach, using social software to create and share valuable information within an enterprise. Chris Pacitti, from one of the two investing companies, Austin Ventures had this to say.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine)

Mark Oehlert

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Individual Value Required

Tony Karrer

When you make this information fabric easy to edit between groups of individuals in a dynamic, secure, governed and real-time manner, it creates a Collaborative Network. Interesting post found via the Communities and Networks Connection - The Future of Collaborative Networks by Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of MindTouch.

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Ten Technology Strategies for 2008 via Gartner Group

Kapp Notes

Unified Communications --The coming together of seemingly unrelated systems like security cameras and marketing or store traffic data.this could be an interesting and possibly disturbing trend. Social Software --Wikis, blogs, podcasts. This seems obvious. Especially as more and more people adopt these technologies.

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The current top 5 highest-rated social learning solutions on CollectMyThoughts

InsiderHub

Kenexa Learning Suite allows your people to use their mobile devices for a number of things, such as: Social software for business. Social learning management. Google apps for education – enhanced social learning capabilities and they contain many important security features. Content management and development.

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Edupunk stalks the institution.

Learning with e's

Students are also voting with their feet, with many preferring to use social networking tools such as Facebook to communicate in place of the institutional e-mail system. The adoption of free social software tools has raised questions over corporate branding, security and privacy issues, and legal requirements.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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