6: BuddyPress : This variant of WordPress powers the Social Learning Centre and has allowed me to deliver my workshops to more people. 4: Twitter : The micro-blogging platform lets me stay in loose touch with many people. 1: WordPress : It powers my blog, which is the core of my self-directed learning and online reflection. MORE >>

At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up with 100+ ways to use social media for learning. Next, Jane details using social media for different types of learning. This is awesome. MORE >>

internal processes on wiki starting to use wikis internally Moving faculty bookmarks to Delicious use wiki for learners to craft definition of 'seamless service' after searching orgs that proclaim to provide seamless service We hope to build wikis that our students can use to share information. approaches. These make sense. MORE >>

It’s why so few people keep at blogging for years, because it takes work. The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system. That is why I am not a fan of Paperli or Scoopit.” MORE >>

Using internal blogs for any multi-recipient email is a start. Read blog posts/online articles (keeping up to date outside the organization). Use social bookmarks to share what you’re reading. Search the Social Web using search engines (solve problems). Notice that these are all informal. Informal Learning MORE >>