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Elgg, Ning, and SocialText

eLearning Weekly

Several social media platforms have emerged over the past few years which allow you to create your own social network. Organizations are using these platforms to aggregate some or all of their social learning tools so employees don’t have to keep jumping from application to application. SocialText. "With

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Tools I Use

Marcia Conner

Buffer – Providing an easy way to share tweets (or status updates to most every social network) by allowing you to choose set times to post each day. In addition to Twitter, I also use Socialtext Signals , Socialcast , and Yammer with different organizations I work with. Mobile and desktop versions available.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter.

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Get Started in Social Learning in 5 Steps (Without Spending a Dime)

Mindflash

Social learning is not new, but we still do not know what it is. Albert Bandura wrote a book called Social Learning Theory in 1977, and he didn’t even have a Facebook account. So social learning is about watching others and doing what they do? That was social learning then. Who would have thought?

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses.

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Google Wave - Social Media Resources - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Microphones and Audio Information - eLearning Technology , November 4, 2009. Adding Facebook and Twitter to student participation - Dont Waste Your Time , November 4, 2009. Learning Power Laws - eLearning Technology , November 2, 2009.

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Collecting Knowledge and Learning - 02/24/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

Invention vs. Innovation - The Technology Liberation Front. Apple doesn't invent much, but they do take technologies that are currently only available to people who are intimately familiar with gcc and vi, and makes them accessible to ordinary people. technology. It's information collaboration - Newsday.

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