Social Grid Follow-up
Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. There's a recording available here.
The crux of the talk was:
- Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers.
- A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid.
In terms of the presentation, most of the presentation, I've discussed before in various places:
- Crowdsourcing in the Small
- King William's College - General Knowledge Paper and Crowdsourcing - Know Where You Can Find Anything
- Concept Workers - post information work and workers
- Evaluating Performance of Concept Workers - realities of how concept workers are evaluated by managers who know less about the answer than the concept worker themselves
- Value from Social Media - aspect of work problems that are classically hard to fully address with search, i.e., where search stops and other solutions need to begin.
- Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap.
- Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work.
- Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool
- My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party.
Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid
In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid. I asked via Twitter and in the session for other tools/methods that people use for Tapping into Your Social Grid.
Here was the original tweet:
- tonykarrer: Please help - online session going now: How (other than twitter) do you Tap Your Social Grid to get help with your problems? #tysg
- SocialHound: @tonykarrer I also use twitter to comment on topics that I have knowledge in to broaden my scope of netwokers
- SocialHound: @tonykarrer I use twitter to reach out to people with knowledge about things I don't understand
- TamiSchiller: @tonykarrer #tysg LinkedIn, various Ning groups and industry specific organizations.
- ranellem: @tonykarrer I've found old friends via Facebook that have become professional contacts as well.
- gammill: @tonykarrer I use facebook for 'normal people' market research and LinkedIn for BD and hiring #tysg
- annemscott: @tonykarrer I also use Facebook (comments on status) and Facebook Groups for help. #tysg
- prawsthorne: @tonykarrer I also use Skype, MSN, Google Chat, Google groups, Wiki talk pages to tap my social grid. I believe tap is the keyword
- EmmaWho: @tonykarrer facebook groups
- cammybean: @tonykarrer Blogging. Email. Facebook. Tools for quickly getting the question out there. #tysg
- assistivetek: @tonykarrer I rely on Skype and LinkedIn to reach out to others as well as my blog
- moehlert: @tonykarrer #tysg Yammer. Blogging. Facebook. Linkedin. They're all just tools to build relationships between people and people and data
- Ning
- Blogs
- Social Bookmarking (delicious and Diigo)
- Plaxo
- Facebook pages for organizations/businesses
- LinkedIn pages for organizations/businesses
- WordPress blog as part of business website
- Photosharing sites - smugmug and flickr
- youtube
- MySpace
- Bebo
- Public speaking
- Yammer
- company tools of tagging, sharing bookmarks, web profiles
- Meetup
- IRC
- Comments in blogs
- Forums
- Virtual Book Club
- Slideshare
- slideshare - leads me to someone's blog or website
- archived webinars - lead me to someone's blog or website
- Movie recommendations on NetFlix
For more discussions on networking and LinkedIn see Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California, Secret for Networking at Events – Prenetworking, Pre-network with LinkedIn, Local Event Organizers Need to Adopt Social Media.
And for information that's more focused on service professionals such as accountants, attorneys, consultants, take a look at Social Media for Service Professionals and Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects – More Ideas.
See also:
Questions and Thoughts
The following are questions or comments from the audience.
Q: If you have unique content for a specific area of business, like brand marketers, is a group on LinkedIn better than creation of your own business to business network?
To me, LinkedIn is very limited in it's ability to set up communities. Yes, you can create a group. And then you have threaded discussions. However, when we just did this for the LA CTO Forum, we created a LinkedIn group so that members could search profiles and created a private Ning community for discussions, events, and communication.
The question mentions "unique content" ... I often find that Ning isn't that great for specialized content. I'd need to know more to understand what would work for the particular situation.
Q: Do you remember who/what organization researched memory and found that those under the age of 27 remember less than older folks? I really like this idea and would like to read this research.
Couple of places that discuss adaptation of memory and technology
In Your Outboard Brain Knows All, Clive Thompson talks about how our need to remember is changing.
Neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info. When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a relative's birth date, 87 percent of respondents over age 50 could recite it, while less than 40 percent of those under 30 could do so. And when he asked them their own phone number, fully one-third of the youngsters drew a blank. They had to whip out their handsets to look it up.
Q: Is what we consider ""Collaboration & Networking"" in the enterprise is what academia calls ""Plagiarism""?
Two articles (1, 2) that discuss the case of a Facebook study group that was considered cheating when other study groups are okay.
This is a really challenging issue!
Q: what's a "hash tag"?
Q: what's "#tysg" he typed in twitter search box
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags
#tysg - It wasn't really a hash tag, but close enough. It was a tag that I put in my original twitter post that allows me to find related posts.
Q: Curious--when he does a follow-up conversation w/ people on linkedin that respond to his inquiries, as in the ex. he showed, do people expect to be paid for their consulting time? or does it depend on the extent of the consultation?
I've never had someone who accepted a request for a 30 minute conversations ask to be paid for that conversation. I have talked to a few consultants who clearly were not going to tell me anything of interest without being paid. But that is rare - 5% or less. Obviously, after a first call people (including me) might suggest an engagement is in order to dive into more detail.
Q: Do you feel LinkedIn Answers is as valuable for introducing a completely new technology vs. something that people are familiar with?
I'm not as familiar with using LinkedIn as a marketing / sales tool, but I use it all the time as a market research tool. It certainly is good at reaching influencers. But I have to be honest and say that I get lots of LinkedIn requests to look at someone's new product in order to try to get me to blog about the product. I generally am not a super early adopter so I'm less likely to dive in with a new tool. Plus there's just a lot of those requests. My guess is that there are others who would be more likely to dive in if it's something interesting. Probably the best approach is to be even earlier and truly be asking for expertise - where do we fit in the market.
Q: How to you handle negative comments on Linked in or other SN sites?
I've not dealt with negative comments on LinkedIn. Do you mean in Q&A and discussions? I've found it to be pretty civil as compared to threaded discussions in other places. Maybe because people want to look good.
For a better answer, I would go to:
Communities and Networks Connection - Negative Comments
Q: Will the questions be open to everyone in LinkedIn or is it only open to those in your category or having connections?
I believe you can limit it, but normally you would use a message instead if you wanted to limit the distribution. In my mind, the question is a public mechanism. Messages are the private mechanism. Or maybe that's just how I use it.
Q: I often hear people say they are concerned about potential vandalism in user-created content. I suggest that they have a recruiting problem.
I agree. Or you could think of this as an opportunity for natural selection. A bit like the cartoon that I really enjoyed from Dilbert (sorry I'm repeating it, but it's too good to pass up).
Q: Do you ever feel too "spread out" between LinkedIn, Facebook, blogging, twittering, etc.?
Fantastic question. And yes. I'm constantly evaluating where I'm going to focus. I'm still somewhat unsure about Twitter and Facebook. They are definitely secondary mechanisms as compared to LinkedIn for me. Blogging is a different animal.
I think everyone has to evaluate what works for them. But you need to find the tools and methods that work for you.
Q: How is Twittering more effective than Facebook status updates
They are very similar. In fact, many of my updates I post to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn via Ping.fm. That said, because Facebook I generally am doing more social things, I'm not going to mention every blog post. People following me on Twitter are choosing to listen in and are not expecting a mutual friend. So, the dynamic is a little bit different.
Wow, not the best answer - can someone explain this better?
Q: I hear a clear delineation between the social and professional uses of these sites, but with them all so available and searchable... can they really stay that separate?
I'm sorry if I suggested that there was any such delineation, especially on something like Facebook. I have a tendency to mix business and fun. Most people find this in their social networks (both in-person and online). LinkedIn has a tendency to be more directed and professional - but there's still a "social" side to it.
Q: So are people helping you with customer situations for free? Is this stuff they'd normally get paid to do? Are they doing it because you'll mention them on your blog?
Free yes. Most of us consultants do initial discussions for free. Some consultants are very concerned about giving anything away. For me, if I can help you in 30 minutes, it's not worth trying to sell you a consulting engagement. And I believe that's most people out there. I should also mention that I'm often not talking to consultants.
The "mention me in your blog" is normally only with people who seek a conversation with me ... not when I'm seeking a conversation. In fact, they might have the opposite concern - is he going to blog about what I'm saying?
I will say that being approached by people who are looking to get their name in my blog is a bit problematic.
Q: Why does tony prefer linkedin to twitter?
Twitter is an open conversation. It's great for quick hit questions with nearly real-time response. It's a good way to stay connected with people. It's much more social than LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is much more directed. For me, it's there to create the right conversations. I might broadcast a need on Twitter for a certain kind of conversation. But, I'm much more likely to go see who I know or who I can reach who will have expertise. A lot of the folks who follow me on twitter are people I'm linked to.
Hold it, is that true? I'm going to send a twitter message right now see if I can find out.
The response so far has that about 2/3 of the people following me on Twitter are connections on LinkedIn. So, there's quite a few people who I might be able to reach with a tweet that I would not reach via searching on LinkedIn. There's also a larger number who I reach through my blog. As well, discussions on groups and other places can reach out beyond your connections.
Q: Are there tools for doing online brainstorming with people in different locations.
I mentioned the great session with Robin Good using MindMeister. More on this ...
Q: Define ""Open Networker""
See: My LinkedIn Connection Approach
Q: Is LinkedIn mainly for professional purposes only? That is what I have seen in my limited look at it a while back.
Yes it's definitely professionally oriented. Facebook is far more social.
Q: We use a Virtual Book Club to share ideas and solve problems. What are your thoughts?
Love the idea.
Q: How about calling it micro crowdsourcing?
I like the term. Not 100% sold.
Q: Do you feel Linkedin is best suited for a certain age group?
I'm going to guess that it skews older. Certainly older than Facebook. The cultural norms on LinkedIn are similar to networking norms in real life so I think it will feel better to an older audience.
These are guesses, does anyone have data to back this up?
Q: As a business owner, I have concern about employee abuse, i.e. loss of productivity. Social networking proponents say productivity can actually increase. I have doubts. What's your opinion?
We discussed this in the session. Employees definitely need to be coached to not abuse their time at work on things like Facebook. LinkedIn I would have far less concern. Although be aware that everyone on LinkedIn is somewhat seen as a passive job seeker. Actually, everyone is a passive job seeker even if they aren't on LinkedIn.
Q: Tony, your comment on blogging that ""writing forces learning"" is another way of demonstrating the old aphorism that ""teaching something is the best way to learn it.""
Well said!
Q: What are the attributes of very successful communities...(long answer expected!)
Wow, this is way too big for me. You might start with:
Q: Is NING used more for professional or for private/social?
Both
Q: how valuable do you find the groups in LinkedIn?
It's funny, because I find value in the groups in a different way than I expected. I definitely get value from a broader searching capability. I expected that. But, I didn't expect to meet a lot of interesting people through discussions. I never took the opportunity in forums in the past to meet members. Because I'm so used to 30 minute conversations as a result on LinkedIn, I naturally do that with folks who are saying interesting things in LinkedIn groups.
I would say that groups are way lower value than being able to search for expertise.
Q: What does it mean that Tony's blog is his outboard brain?
Basically, I forget details of stuff all the time. And so I look back at my blog to find out what I used to think about a topic.
Q: How much time do you spend in LinkedIn weekly?
I've not really thought about it. When I get an email from someone or run into them on a web site, I look at their profile - maybe 30 minutes a week doing that. And then my use is heavily dependent on what I'm working on. I would guess it averages an hour a week. However, I would guess that I have about 4, 30 minute conversations a week as a result of LinkedIn. Of course, all of this is really work, and extremely high value work.
Q: How would you rate Twitter for tapping the social grid?
I'm still not 100% sold, but it's growing on me. If you are relatively new to all of this, start by creating 30-minute conversations on LinkedIn.
Q: Do you see corporations using LinkedIn Groups for employees to seek mentors/coaches within their organization?
I don't have enough data points on this. Can someone else weigh in?
Q: Any comments on Nour's book: Relationship currency?
I'm afraid I'm only vaguely familiar with it. Thanks for the pointer. Oh, and he's a 2nd level connection and a fairly open networker on LinkedIn.
Q: will it be possible to save the ""templates""
The template that is being asked about is what my message generally looks like when I reach out to someone via LinkedIn.
It's almost always an expertise request.
Hi
I'm hoping you'll be open to a brief conversation. From your profile you have a great background and it seems like you'll have lots of thoughts around my issues.
I'm working on XXX.
I've spent a fair bit of time researching and have been finding YYY.
I'd like to set a time to discuss this with you and get your thoughts.
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It's critical that your question show you aren't still at square one. If you come and ask me - I need help selecting an authoring tool... I may or may not be interested in talking to you. If you tell me that you are debating this tool vs. that tool and are particularly thinking about reusability - now I am likely much more interested.
Q: Does LinkedIn offer any sort of rating system to vet the value of an individual's advice?
During the session, I botched my answer to this question - so luckily two people came to my rescue....
Q: LinkedIn Answers does offer the opportunity to rate based answers which is indirectly a rating system.
Q: But you could RECOMMEND someone on LinkedIn for those who's advice has been great
I would add that in "real life" you don't get much help in vetting someone's advice either.
Q: ""Bedstefar"" is Grand Dad in english
Q: Christian IX, king of Denmark
Okay now I wish everyone could have seen these in the chat! That's pretty dang good whoever typed this in. I'm just not going to tell anyone how this relates to anything. ;)
Q: How do you work with a management/political culture that states “my ideas, right or wrong”?
I'm not 100% sure what this related to in the presentation. Most of the time, I'm looking for input, answers, outside the box thinking that I can't get internally. If your culture doesn't want to hear what other people think - hmmm - What was I saying about passive job seeking? Actually, I believe LinkedIn is pretty good for active job seeking as well.
Q: People are not only asking questions, but looking for like minded people who connect with for future reference in searching Q&A
Great point.
Q: So search engines (social networks) tend to lessen the need for individual memory?
Yes - that's exactly true. See Better Memory.
Q: I'm new to introNetworks via LinkedIn discussion grp invite. So, how does introNetworks compare?
Mark was just getting into this. LinkedIn is much more keyword, profile search across a very large network. introNetworks is generally a smaller group (although they can be pretty large) and uses a more limited set of keywords to do matching of people. Having been the CTO for eHarmony at its start - I think of introNetworks as the eHarmony for business-social networking with given groups of people.
My challenge with introNetworks and other social networking tools is that unless I have a specific problem I'm trying to accomplish or a plan for how to connect, then I just end up swimming around. See:
SharePoint Update
SharePoint in Corporate Learning
One of the hardest things for me to find are good examples of how people are really using web 2.0 inside organizations. This is a great opportunity to hear lots of examples of what they are doing with SharePoint around Corporate Learning in a wide variety of organizations.
Live Sessions:
- Tuesday March 10, 8 - 10 AM Pacific
- Thursday March 12, 8 - 9 AM Pacific
Community discussion will occur in between.
Register Here. If you are interested in attending, go to the Learn Trends Ning Site and sign-up. Make sure you register for the event. We will make announcements through that site.
 | Michael Palko Solution Education Manager | Michael will talk about how he's using SharePoint to manage The Training Space, an internal learning community that connects and "cross pollinates" teams. Community members contribute their own unique experience and draw from the group’s collective intelligence using all the tools that web 2.0 has to offer. |
 | Allison Anderson Manager Leadership Learning Environments Intel | Using SharePoint as a one-stop-stop for our Career Development instructors around the globe, to access the tools and resources they need. Instructors teach in pairs, so this site helps them find partners around the globe. Includes a corporate calendar to show where the workshop is taught worldwide, and a discussion board for sharing best-known-methods. We’ll talk about what has worked… and what has not. |
 | Cindi Wiggin Manager Leadership Learning Environments Intel
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 | Tom Smith Faculty of Education Technology, Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Women's College | SharePoint and its development in Staff Training in an overseas tertiary college environment |
 | Michael Glazer Dean Burson-Marsteller University | Sharing examples of social learning features in a training program. How the university is beginning to make connections between training collaboration and knowledge-sharing. |
 | Andrew Smith Learning Technology Specialist Tele-Atlas | How Tele-Atlas uses SharePoint as a platform for informal learning. |
 | Celia Bohle Advanced Learning TEchnologies Program Manager HP | SharePoint for a Marketing Online Learning Community |
 | Kevin Kussman IPG Go-To-Market Learning and Development HP | |
 | Dominika Merzenich Workforce Development Specialist/IPG Go-To-Market Learning and Development HP | |
 | Anne Adrian Associate Director, ACES-Ag IT, Auburn Extension | Internal and External use of SharePoint with Feeds, searches, aggregatred feeds. Anne will describe how SharePoint is used and impl;emented to prduce public blogs and web sites based on feeds from categories and locations. She will also describe how SharePoint internal collaboration sites are used and the value of authnticated searches in SharePoint. |
 | Brian Dusablon Performance Consultant Administaff | The role of SharePoint in our onboarding process including: early access, easy to find key information, well of resources and anniversary profiles. The role of SharePoint in New Supervisor Orientation including: Training programs, Templates and guides and Testimonials. |
Other possible participants are from Valvoline/Ashland and Microsoft Learning.
Online Conference
Two of my eLearning Predictions for 2009 were:
#5 - Virtual Classroom Tipping PointAlready this year, I'm seeing a lot of this ...
... we've reached a point where virtual classroom training is no longer seen as inherently inferior and a lower value ... 2009 will be the year when we realize that we should be justifying any in-person training.
#11 - Micro Virtual Conferences
The move towards acceptance of virtual classroom means ... acceptance of online conferences ... we won't have time to go for several days ... in between a full online conference and something that's a few sessions.
And I think there's a fairly substantial implication for workplace learning organizations...
Online Conference Associated with Major In-Person Conferences
It was interesting to see that ASTD TechKnowledge offer an online conference. The experience sounds like it was okay (TK 09 Virtual Experience). They opened that up late in the process. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if they had offered it earlier. Would attendance have been even lower for in-person?
And I'm not the only one: Online conferences - the future is now.
Both talk about: great value.
Online Conference on Conferences
I was asked to participate in a recent online conference: AACE - Spaces of Interaction: An Online Conversation on Improving Traditional Conferences. The event was held purely online with sessions spaced about 6 hours apart, 3 times per day, for 3 days (9 total sessions). They were recorded. And there was a discussion group.
Think about how having it as an online conference allowed:
- Narrow focus
- Attend without interrupting my job.
- Get people involved who would never participate in-person in such a narrow topic.
- Organize quickly
- Low cost
New Organizers and New Designs
Now, I'm not saying that there's anything new about holding an online conference. The eLearningGuild has been doing this for years with monthly, for-fee online conferences structured around particular topics. These are held over two days with a structure very similar to in-person conferences. Part of the reason that the eLearningGuild structures their online conferences to be similar to in-person conferences to make it more obvious that it's similar and thus is worth the money.
Once you go to an online conference it suddenly allows all sorts of new conferences, new organizers and new designs to flourish.
I've really not spent a lot of time looking at different models, but it seems like there are several common design questions that come into play:
- Number of Sessions - You can go anywhere from Single Event Webinars (e.g., Tapping the Social Grid) to complete conferences with many sessions across many topics.
- Tracks - Is there a single series or do you have multiple sessions at the same time?
- Synchronous / Asynchronous - Do you design for live sessions or more for recording and viewing later with interaction pushed to discussion groups?
- Schedule - When in the day do you schedule your sessions?
- Spacing - Do you block sessions to occur back-to-back or do you leave room for discussion and work to occur in-between?
- Exhibitors / Sponsors - How do you integrate exhibitors and sponsors? Are there demonstration sessions?
- Discussion Mechanism
- Networking
- Start-up Support / Training - How do you help participants participate effectively?
- Conference End / Follow-on - What do you do at the end?
When I did my online session Tapping the Social Grid - I primarily focused on establishing 1-to-1 conversations. I probably used the phrase "30 minute conversation" more than any other phrase. But what get's me excite about online conferences is that we can easily make this a many-to-many conversation.
If you look at what we are doing with SharePoint in Corporate Learning - Free Micro Virtual Conference, the reality is that I've tapped into the Social Grid to find people Using SharePoint. We are turning that into an amazing online conversation with:
- High quality speakers / participants (HP, Intel, Thomson Reuters, Administaff, ...)
- Focused topic
- More discussion and less presentation
The bottom line:
I would go have each of these conversations 1-on-1 if I didn't have this way of doing it. We might as well make it many-to-many.Implication for Workplace Learning Organizations
When you look at the dynamic here, I believe there's an incredible opportunity for workplace learning organizations to become a new kind of organizer as well. I get asked to come speak at various in-house conferences. That's generally a fairly expensive proposition. And I would guess that the number of in-person, in-house conferences is going down right now. Just a guess. ;)
Maybe you can create something much better. Create an online conference. Invite people from outside the organization who share similar issues. Invite the "experts" but reduce the costs greatly by allowing it to occur without travel. You really don't need George, Jay and I to organize these things for you.
Or do you? Literally as I'm composing this, I'm wondering if there's possibly a great new service offering here. Would you like help pulling together an online conference around a topic for your organization?
I know people who are really good at pulling together online conferences. I know how to network to get lots of interesting folks together. I'm sure there are plenty of corporate event organizers who would organize an online conference. But I sense there's something a little different here.
What do you think? Is there need among workplace learning organizations? Is there a new business here?
Adoption Ideas
Great article from Harvard Business.org - (via Big Dog, Little Dog) ...
Overcome Objections
Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
One key idea is when rolling something out ... :
Halfway through each training, after describing the process, I always asked the same question:Why won't this work for you?
Then he overcomes the objections one by one by allowing modification of what is planned. Clearly, we can't always do this in our role, but certainly asking the question is a great idea. In fact, when I do presentations, this is often the question that really gets audiences going. And I've said before that they are really good at defining the barriers. I need to get better at enlisting them to overcome those barriers.
Embrace Chaos
This reminds me a bit of the adoption trick of letting everyone know how chaotic things are going to be when the new system rolls out. The more you trumpet, almost celebrate, the chaos and the problems - the more people are willing to help to make it happen.
Flexibility
So maybe this gets me back to the same bottom line that the author has ...
Make it half a solution or a partial solution or a flexible solution so that it can be adopted in ways that work for the individuals who have to do it.
Topic Hubs
The term topic hub was not something that I was familiar with until John Tropea used it to describe the content communities Social Media Informer, eLearning Learning, Mobile Learning, Informal Learning Flow, Communities and Networks Connection that we've been launching.
John really has helped me better understand and describe the value proposition of Topic Hubs.
Hard to Understand a Blog Network
In his post Communities and Networks Connection blog aggregator:
.... newbies to the blogosphere sometimes haven’t go time to immerse themselves and build a subscription of blogs they trust, this takes time, but it’s well worth it for personal experience. This also happens to me, I haven’t got time to find and build a list of sources for topics I’m slightly interested in, as I’m too busy on the topics I am interested in.This is very true. It's hard to understand a single blog. I've been exploring exactly that in my recent post: Index Page. It's even harder when you try to understand a network of bloggers. I don't necessarily claim that content communities (or should I call them topic hubs) solve that problem, but they at least help to some degree.
Anyway, for newbies and others, there has been a movement where this stage of finding and reading blogs on a topic has been made a whole lot easier. The blogosphere has matured and blogs on a topic have proved their worthiness (blogosphere self regulates reputation) and coalesced into one convenient space.
Topic Hubs Bring Together a Network
In How relevant are communities of practice in a network age?, he defines one of the needs for a content community that I see as well:
one thing we do forgo is the neatness of a topic hub, compared to scattered content. What I mean is that if you network you know how to tie all the scattered content together as you blog about it and bookmark it. But for new comers, finding all content on a topic in one page is always easier.Topic Hubs Require a Form of Community
John then describes a key requirement for topic hubs to work...
if you want to build a topic hub (a clearing house on a topic, as well as learning from each other whilst you’re building your practice via conversations), you need a community, people become members of a shared space, which is a commitment to contributing to the aim.While Nancy White tells us that topic hubs are somewhere in between a network and a community, there are community like aspects required to create a hub. You need people who are focusing on similar topics. Most often these people are part of a network that has elements of community. Certainly in the eLearning world, bloggers have some kind of community.
The bottom line for these kinds of topic hubs is that they focus on the needs of the content consumer: creating a site that makes it easier to find and navigate a complex network of content. These sites also take advantage of a existing phenomenom, the loose community of blog networks.
I look forward to Nancy, John and others helping me to understand more about all of this.
eLearning Learning Hot List Feb 1-14
Hot List - 2/1/2009 - 2/14/2009
Posts- Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers
- A Guide to Social Learning
- What Goes in the LMS?
- Sacred Training Cows
- Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template
- Blogging in a Walled Garden
- Itiel provides more food for thought
- Get Out of the Training Business
- Multi-Tasking & Social Media - Mastering the Balance
- Advantages of 3D for Learning
- Pacing
- the mobile project update 1: html + mp4 + mobile moodle
- On Blogging – Report on Index Page
- Economic Impact
- Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either!
- HP Learning Center - free online software, business, marketing and IT classes for small and medium business
- Pedagogy - MoodleDocs
Notes on the 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.
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