Over the weekend the number of followers on my Twitter account, @C4LPT, passed 10,000 – so a big thank you to all of you who follow this account! Although in the Twitter world this is a relatively small number – compared with celebrities and other high profile accounts that have hundreds of thousands (even millions) of followers. MORE >>

Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as: <a> group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, One cannot assume that by enlisting in a Facebook or Twitter account (social media examples) that the user will be able to socially learn. MORE >>

But first I wanted to set up the discussion by arguing that GCPEDIA (the Government of Canada’s official internal wiki) has the potential to be the single most transformative technology adopted by the Government of Canada since the first computers were issued to civil servants twenty years ago. I discuss transparency a lot on this blog. MORE >>

Narration of work is the first step in integrating learning into the workflow. With access to more knowledge flow, via social technologies, highly networked workers can have broader, deeper and richer learning experiences than any instructional designer could ever create in advance. This makes the whole programming environment smarter. MORE >>

also began working with colleagues at the University of Alberta in 1993 and 1994 to create a 'Multiple Academic User Domain', or MAUD, out of the same technology. As with the discussion board, it was the multi-user aspewct of the technology that made all the difference. started using Twitter ten years later ( https://twitter.com/#!/Downes/status/243133812 MORE >>