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Inspired by JaneHart’s Top100 Articles of 2011 , I thought I should put down at least the top 50 thathas made me reflect and ponder in the past one year, has changed the way I dothings and shaped quite a bit of my work-life decisions. I have divided them across five categories for easy reference.
My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. eLearn magazine: Feature Article Ten Web 2.0 eLearn magazine: Feature Article Ten Web 2.0 eLearn magazine: Feature Article Ten Web 2.0 eLearn: Opinions Good short article on characteristics of 2.0 eLearn: Feature Article E-learning 2.0
A recent article in Wired Magazine, Collaboration and Conversation: The next generation of working practices summarises it nicely “Today’s enterprises are seeing and experiencing the value of both socialsoftware and cloud-based content collaboration systems.
This is a quick recap and a list of the posts, articles, and books that have shaped my thinking, provided me with insights and supported or challenged my assumptions. To make it slightly easy for myself, I have divided the list into two parts—1) posts and articles and 2) books. Posts and Articles 1. Enterprise 2.0
A veritable feast of articles on social media is appearing in the academic press at the moment. Two articles that have caught my eye deal with socialsoftware in education, and both have landed on my desk in the last few weeks. SocialSoftware: new opportunities for challenging social inequalities in learning?
Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List.
I recalled some of the posts and articles I had read in the past about lurking as a behavior in online communities and what it indicated, and decided to dig through those again. At this point, I also "serendipitous-ly" stumbled upon a couple of conversations recently that touched upon lurking (this is why I love social media).
SocialSoftware --Wikis, blogs, podcasts. 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. This seems obvious. Especially as more and more people adopt these technologies.
Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0
In a different post, he writes: … I am concerned that having status updates, file sharing, Q&A,news links, CRM updates, social media feeds, workflow approvals, ERP orders,support tickets, polls/surveys and a dozen other sources of information all pipedinto the same stream can make socialsoftware almost unusable.
Using Social Signals to Find Top eLearning Resources - eLearning Technology , June 24, 2009. More Articles on Second Life in Education - WISE Pedagogy , June 22, 2009. Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning , June 22, 2009. SocialSoftware (7). Reduce your editing hours!! Connexions , June 23, 2009.
Great article by Dion Hinchcliffe - The State of Enterprise 2.0. From the production side, a brand new analysis indicates that the business socialsoftware market will be nearly $1 billion strong this year and over $3.3 Increasing evidence abounds that Enterprise 2.0 platforms to 160,000 workers. billion by 2011. has arrived.
This article investigates the use of socialsoftware applications in digital library environments. It examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository.
Neil Selwyn and Lyndsay Grant are to be applauded for bringing together an excellent, very readable special issue of the journal which focuses on Learning and SocialSoftware. There are 6 main articles in the issue, but two stand out for me, both of which deal with how Facebook is being used in education.
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is the use of emergent socialsoftware platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” Challenges to core assumptions: how work gets done, how people get on with each other. Most recent version of tips or rules of the world – how you succeed in deploying the new tech kit. Definition: “Enterprise 2.0 Benefits of 2.0
I published two journal articles recently on the use of wikis in teaching and learning, and I'm making them available here on this blog. The first article came out of a whole term of gathering data from student teachers who were using wikis to support their study, and as a tool to encourage sharing and collaboration.
He has produced over 40 papers, dozens of book reviews and many articles on e-learning. The event will once again be held in the spectacular Roland Levinsky Building, on the University of Plymouth main campus. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and has won Best Speaker awards at several conferences.
Top 2008 Posts based on Read Counts: 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers Free - Web 2.0 Corporate Access (6) LinkedIn for Finding Expertise (6) Social Learning (6) Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape (6) As a side note, I used this as an opportunity to update my Blog Guide. The article came out and there was no discussion.
In the article “ Socialsoftware: E-learning beyond learning management systems ”, Christian Dalsgaard of the Institute of Information and Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark, says online learning needs to “ engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their self-governed, problem-based and collaborative activities .”
SocialSoftware and was published in Health Information and Libraries Journal. So I went through a few of the citations just to see what other researchers were saying about our article. Must have been the article then. No, in the original article we published, our names were spelt correctly too. & Wheelert, S.
. - Business Casual , October 29, 2008 Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective - eLearning Technology , June 15, 2006 Requirement to Social Learning Adoption #2 - Compatibility - Engaged Learning , February 24, 2009 The Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 & Any thoughts or advice? Help would be sincerely appreciated!
This morning I received an email asking… How are people using socialsoftware to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning. But in what ways do socialsoftware applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn? Am I missing something?
I spoke about 'SocialSoftware in Higher Education' and several really useful questions were raised by the group over copyright, validity and reliability of sources such as Wikipedia , plagiarism and 'fit for purpose' issues. Landed on my desk I find the latest issue (No. 21) of the Centre for Bioscience Bulletin.
Several vendors of social network suites have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. I need you to give me a one-page list of the capabilties you require from socialsoftware to make the most of social learning and carry out your vision of what we need to do.
Check out his article in Nokia People titled The Power of Peer Production. Instead of forcing people into predetermined groups like groupware does, socialsoftware facilitates the natural formation of groups based on spontaneous, contextual needs for interaction. What a great name. You should google it.
Previously hard-to-find articles on my wiki have morphed into leave-behind reference material, for example, Learning in Business or Seminal Documents. Two years ago, the focus was on how to apply socialsoftware for learning. The focus of my workshops is shifting, too.
“We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction. Social media enables users to observe and learn from each other, which psychologists such as Lev Vygotsky and Albert Bandura believed was crucial for effective learning.
Even today, at the writing of this article, “knowledge is (still) power.” A very recent article posted on the World Economic Forum website spoke about today’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR). predict that by the end of this year (2021), the global socialsoftware and collaboration market will have increased by 17% from 2020.
Ryan Holmes, CEO of social media management system HootSuite, said social media is an important asset inside and outside the organization. In a 2012 Fast Company article titled “The $1.3 Communicating and collaborating are knowledge sharing methods that can increase organization competence.
Social networks on the other hand are online groups of people who are acquainted or connected as friends, business contacts, or colleagues and use socialsoftware tools to stay in touch. Figuring out new ways of doing things and addressing issues are always in high demand. Communities of practice focus on a subject.
This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using socialsoftware to support learning?” I discovered this article while Googling for material on learning transfer. In these explosive times, I’d like to see more of all forms of learning. If we don’t pump more resources into learning, we’re going to be flying blind.
| Main | The Social Graph.shaping up to be the hot summer song of 08 » March 03, 2008 A Couple of Lists of Sites to Start the Day. Hmmm.maybe not a bad idea.CSC (Chief Social Computing Officer), CSN (Chief Social Networking Officer), CW2 (Chief Web 2.0 wonder how many are still around?
There is already a conference, Graphing Social Patterns , Google has an API for it, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote a long article about his thoughts on the topic, even the great mind of Will Thalheimer has turned his attention toward things social and measurable.
If anyone is clueless about SL, a quick read of the wikipedia article on the subject would be useful before continuing on with this blog post. Maybe there’s been some buzz about Second Life (SL) in distance education circles for awhile now but the massive increase in users is fueling some new excitement.
Indeed, Cheskin’s Davis Masten and Tim Plowman characterized digital ethnography as the next wave in understanding the consumer experience in a Design Management Journal article as early as 2003. In this article, I go one step further by listing specific, practical instructional design tips that are informed by those theories.
My conversation with George was no exception as we spoke at length about Connectivism , social learning networks, and the future of current learning technologies (LMS, LCMS, etc.) in light of social media. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities.
Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: SocialSoftware: Get Affiliated. SocialSoftware: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of socialsoftware? While the technology is nothing spectacular, socialsoftware is one of the catalysts of the change.
Ecopetrol uses its LXP to engage workers like Luis Giovanny Barbosa Arias at the Barrancabermeja Refinery, who’s been given time to explore videos, documents and short articles to focus his learning. Modern training incorporates socialsoftware, advances in video and multimedia technology, and state-of-the-art learning platforms.
In an article titled Taking the Social Media Plunge: Learning to Let Go , Andy McAfee explores the reluctance of traditional organizations to embrace social media (and informal learning). Many organizations appear scared to death of Enterprise 2.0. So I think the real reluctance comes from someplace else.
To understand the challenges of using collaborative or socialsoftware inside business organizations, begin by thinking about the use of similar technologies in your personal life.” Why is it proving so difficult? And what can you do to speed not only adoption, but the adoption of productive practices in your organization?
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