Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users.

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Wiki Web Social Networks Authoring Tools 105

The Learning Circuits

DECEMBER 13, 2007

The solutions organizations are looking for include blogs, wikis, and communities of practice. The CoP companies we talk with tell us that their businesses are booming (Tomoye and Mzinga being two which focus heavily in this space).

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Examples are Winkwaves , Tomoye , icohere , etc. There are also options that offer the possibility to have conversations without having a discussion forum as the key tool, like twitter exchanges, or using the comments page of a wiki. Ning for instance doesnot have an easy file sharing possibility and groupsite does.

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Social Networks Discussion Social Network Platform 102