2009-07-21 FeedMingle.com feedmingle@eulogik.com urn:uuid:f1ef4193-f93e-84ff-62f5-4cd21d4cfcf8 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:03:05 UTC Over the last 6 months I've been on the look out for documented examples of the use of social media within workplace learning for my Social Learning Handbook. My list now contains examples of its use for both formal social learning as well as for enterprise sharing and collaboration. In December/January I added links to a 6-part series by Bill Ives on the Fast Forward blog about implementing Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen, where he discusses the business drivers and components, change management efforts and results, the operational and financial impact, as well as the lessons learned. I've now just... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:56:28 UTC WARNING: This one's pure fun! This site lets you write upside down ... ¡uʍop ǝpısdn noʎ oʇ ƃuıʞlɐʇ 'ǝuɐɾ sı sıɥʇ 'ollǝɥ Just type in your text and flip it. Copy and paste to wherever! Available for English, French, German and Spanish FlipText.net Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:08:24 UTC The Google Apps Marketplace opened for business on 9 March. According to the Official Google blog, this "allows Google Apps customers to easily discover, deploy and manage cloud applications that integrate with Google Apps. More than 50 companies are now selling applications across a range of businesses." Once installed to a company's domain, these third-party applications work like native Google applications For more information about the Google Apps Marketplace take a look at this video To view the apps available,... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:39:57 UTC Find out more about this event I am running at the informatology 2010 conference in London, and how to get discounted ticket, in my Social Media in Learning blog posting. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:01 UTC On April 30th I am running a 1-day event - Using Social Media in Learning - as one of the Day 3 activities at the informatology 2010 Strategies for Success Conference in London (28-30 April). HTML clipboardThe masterclass will be divided into 4 main sessions, each of which will focus on one of the types of learning that takes place in organisations - Formal Structured Learning, Personal Directed Learning, Group Directed Learning and Intra-Organisational Learning - and the key social technologies that can be used to support it. This will be a highly participative, interactive and social event which will... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:24 UTC There are a number of timeline tools around, but Preceden's a new one I've just come across. Features include: Create a timeline for almost anything Add multiple layers to keep events organized Keep your timelines private or share them with others Preceden is completely web-based and 100% free Preceden [More timeline tools in the Instructional Tools section of the Tools Directory] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:34:42 UTC Pakrati.us = Twitter + Delicious. Find out more in my posting on Social Media in Learning Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:30:00 UTC This site provides a useful and very simple bookmarking service for Twitter. They follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains a URL, they add it to your delicious.com bookmarks. You can optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and they''ll even add a delicious tag identifying the sender if you like. Packrati.us [Find over 150 micro-blogging and Twitter apps in the Micro-blogging section of the Directory of Leanring Tools 2010] Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:49:06 UTC Caspian Learning, developer of Thinking Worlds, a commercial software platform that enables the rapid development of 3D immersive learning simulations and serious games, has announced plans to launch their first Serious Games Challenge. The challenge will pit instructional designers of all experience levels against each other in a 30 day Serious Games Challenge to create the most innovative learning simulation using drag and drop Thinking Worlds technology. The Serious Games Challenge will be launched from Caspian Learning’s ‘Experience Lounge’ exhibition... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:41:00 UTC In a couple of previous postings in December 2009, I mentioned that the real-time collaborative authoring tool, Etherpad, had been acquired by Google to become part of Wave, and then that Etherpad had been opensourced. Chris Pirillo and Jake Warner have now "frozen the Etherpad code in time" and released it as Type With Me. TypeWith.Me [180+ Document and Presentation Tools in Learning Directory 2010]