personally don’t care what tool, application or technology is being used to drive enterprise-wide micro-blogging, but it must be secure and ideally it’s behind the firewall. To me, it’s a natural example of both informal and social learning. Inside the organization, a dilemma now exists and is rapidly taking shape. Are there any risks? MORE >>

The State Department has been hypersensitive about security. For example, the Lowry report writes: At a Twitter training course for State Department employees attended by the author, the 50 or so officers present — some of whom admitted to never having used social media — were exhorted to give it a go, you can’t go wrong. MORE >>

The article begins: Federal securities regulators are weighing demands to make it easier for fast-growing companies to use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to raise money by tapping thousands of investors for very small amounts of shares. This is significant. On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. MORE >>

This specification provides a way for courses running in IMS-conformant Learning Management systems to securely access remote content, tools and services, and receive back user’s results. Blackboard, for example, provides a rich set of tools; however, they only work on Blackboard. LEARNING REACHES TO THE CLOUD. LTI 1.1 Cloud learning MORE >>

security. Security issues arise from an organization’s inability to trust their people, thus believing employees would inappropriately share videos and knowledge with those outside the organization and/or firewall. There is also the perceived security issue concerning videos being stored on the cloud for some CIO’s, etc. MORE >>