Charles Jennings Overview | Text 2.0 Jane Hart Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC] Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition. Google is supposedly getting into the market with Google Me, a not-yet-launched, oft-rumored social network that will directly compete with Facebook. Nothing is for certain yet, but more and more sources are saying Google Me does exist, and that could mean good things for all of us. Still, Google hasn't had the best track record when it comes to social media attempts. EDIT: The graphic has been updated to include Google Lively. More Google Resources from Mashable: - 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google- 10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings- 5 Must-See Google Easter Eggs- 4 Ways Non-Profits Can Use Google Buzz- The Small Business Guide to Google Apps [img credit: Robert Scoble]
5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tools has simply been “bolted-on” or “shoe-horned” into existing training or e-learning practices, in which case it doesn’t tend to work very well at all. Firstly, those who are very Social Web-aware don’t like to be forced to “be social” in a way that has been defined for them, and those who are not yet familiar with the Social Web, don’t like to be forced to use unfamiliar tools they are not comfortable with. The whole point about social tools is that they are fundamentally “enabling” tools not “command and control” tools. “Organising” – and I use that word loosely – a formal social learning experience therefore involves 5 key principles” So what’s the best name for this type of formal online social learning experience? ideal.
The Learning Layer – Review The Learning Layer: Building the next level of intellect in your organization, begins with some solid insights on how learning is the key to performing in the networked workplace. Learning has been the traditional realm of HR while most systems are supported by IT. This means that HR supports the people who produce the tacit knowledge while IT supports the systems that store the explicit knowledge. The proliferation of current web technologies now presents us with two major opportunities: The knowledge and insights within the heads of people can be leveraged without overtly taking actions to make it so. Flinn goes on to explain that Web 2.0 technologies have created “socially aware” systems that can identify some behaviour patterns between systems and users, giving us various levels of adaptation. Flinn also shows how learning value is created, can be measured and then assessed against project value, providing a clearer picture of the value of intellectual capital. Other Related Posts:
Study: Millennials Prefer Traditional Classrooms Over Online Ones Students are warming up to virtual education, but according to a new study, they still believe it's easier to learn in a traditional classroom. Millennial Branding, a Generation Y consulting firm, and online marketplace Internships.com, conducted an online survey in May in which they asked 1,345 college students in the United States about their views on the future of education. The study found almost 53% of students polled agree that "online colleges are a reputable form of education," but only 43% think an online classroom can match or surpass the quality of a traditional one. The students polled were from a random sample among Internships.com's millions of registered users. About 36% of students said that online learning benefits the balance between work and class. Despite millennials' lukewarm opinions about online education, 39% still foresee education becoming more virtual. Millennials understand that the future of education is online and since they were brought up with the internet
iPad bezitters zijn rijk, hoog opgeleid en niet vriendelijk Wired heeft een (niet al te wetenschappelijk) onderzoek laten doen naar het profiel van de huidige i-Pad eigenaren. Op basis van een onderzoek onder 20.000 mensen heeft MyType de persoonlijkheden geanalyseerd. En wat blijkt: de eigenaren van iPad zijn extreem meer rijker, gesofisticeerder, hoog opgeleid, en boven gemiddeld geinteresseerd in zakendoen en geld, en verder minder dan gemiddeld scorend op altruïsme en vriendelijkheid. Volgens de typologie van MyType is dat dus "Selfish". Overigens critici van de iPad bezitten voor 96% het apparaat zelf niet en behoren volgens dat MyType onderzoek tot de categorie "independent geeks" categorie. Het lijkt erop dat dit iPad afzeiken voor deze categorie een vorm is om hun identiteit te verklarien.