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There are some very cool new features especially our hot list feature coming out soon on the eLearning Learning Content Community. The site is beginning to take into account social signals. In other words, we are using what is happening:

• with the content out in the network
• on the eLearning Learning
• searches that land on us and that occur on the site,
• and various other kinds of behaviors.

Together these social signals indicate that the content is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest). Thus it belongs in both a best of list and a hot list. This is going to take some work to get it right, but we believe it will help to highlight various hot list content.

We are particularly excited that this capability will soon allow us to have a weekly post that highlights hot list for the week. This will be something like:

Hot List for the Week of 1/2/2009 - 1/9/2009

Hot List Posts

• Tool Set 2009
• The U.S. Air Force: Moving Full Scale Into Social Media
• i-Clickr
• Year of the cloud
• Rypple: telling it like it is
• 2009 Predictions, Remembrance and Challenges
• What is the TRUE cost Rapid eLearning?
• Social Learning Question of the Day E-Book
• Now You Can Design E-Learning Courses Like a Pro
• Twitter, Networks, and “following” people
• Learning Circuits Blog Big Question: What are your Challenges, Plans and Predictions for 2009
• Hopes and Predictions for 2009

Hot List Items

• How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website
• Copyright-friendly image source websites " Moving at the Speed of Creativity
• YouTube - E-learning tips
• eLearning Learning

Hot List Keywords

• Work Skills
  
• FLV
  
• Knowledge Work
• iPhone
  
• Twitter
  
• Jing
• GeoLearning
• Saba
• Mzinga
  
• Cornerstone
• Workshop

Notes on the weekly hot list.

• The posts come from the primary sources for this group. Other items come from other sources.
• Keywords are based on occurrences this week in addition to other social signals.
  

I'm not always sure I can explain why certain things are going to be in the hot list for the week. The social signals seem obvious in some cases, but not always clear to me in other cases. Still I would claim that most of those posts are pretty good ones - certainly I'm happy seeing that list. Similarly, it's interesting to see what keywords are getting to the top each week.

I'm very curious to hear any reactions to this idea of a hot list.