Emotions in Social Networks, CCK09

John Mak asks:
Who am I? What is your identity in social networks?
How would emotions impact on social networking?
He also shows some videos in his post.
I would like to discuss this topic with John. Since I am a reading/writing-preference learner, I searched for text references about Emotions in Social Networks. These are the references I [...]

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CCK09 – Connectivists, Do We Need The Daily Newsletter?

This is what happened last year in CCK08 when our instructor was missing to one of our sessions
This year, The Daily CCK09 newsletter was not available to the course participants during 4 days. I wanted to know what other participants where feeling without The Daily so I started a thread in the [...]

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Social Network Theory, the Dunbar Number, Connectors, Mavens, Persuaders, the Strong and Weak Ties and the Scale Free Networks

The CCK09 assignment for this week was: “……in particular, share resources on networks that you encounter in your browsing this week.”
CCK09 – Social Network Theory:
- Introduction to Socia Network Theory
- The Dunbar Number
- The Tipping Point – Connectors, Mavens and Persuaders
- Granovetter – Strong and Weak Ties
- Small World and Scale Free Networks
- Popular [...]

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My PLE (Personal Learning Environment) for the CCK09 Connectivism Open Online Course

This is my start page, my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my list of aggregated resources for the CCK09 Connectivism open online course. It is a real example of a PLE, Personal Learning Environment.
The Daily News: The Daily
Moodle LMS: Course: CCK09
CCK09 Blog: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
Participants (needs login): CCK09: Participants
Elluminate: CCK09 Live Sessions
Recordings: CCK09 [...]

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Related Posts: Networking and Connecting With Twitter

List of Related Posts: Networking and Connecting With Twitter
- List of Favorite Twitter Blog Posts
- Honored to be Nominated for an Education Shorty Award
- Your Twitter Home – Don’t Miss Tweets From Your Friends
- Connectivism, What Type of Twitter User Am I?
- Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in [...]

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Using Twitter to Teach How to Find New LinkedIn Connections

This is my Twitter conversation with Anne Mirtschin. I wanted to explain to her my strategy to find groups and new connections using the LinkedIn social network
#murcha: @emapey2 How do you personally use Linkedin. I just updated mine yesterday with my profile.
about 13 hours ago · Reply · View Tweet
#emapey2: @murcha Use LinkedIn Search to [...]

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Save and Share Bookmarks, Start Blogging and Only Then Use Twitter

Great post from Steve Matthews, Law Firm Web Strategy :
If you are using social media to participate and build a reputation, you need to back it up with some substance. And though some may disagree, my take is that substance frequently requires more that 140 characters.
Lani Ritter Hall blogged Where to begin and Adam [...]

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My CCK08 Connectivism Online Course Workspace

This is a photo of my CCK08 Connectivism online course workspace.
I work online, full time, from home.
Louise Côté (Blanche Maynard) had the great idea of creating the Flickr CCK08 Workspaces Pool
She wrote:
Can the sharing of work environment help build trust and foster deeper connections?
That’s the idea behind the formation of this group. Connecting [...]

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Connectivism, What Type of Twitter User Am I?

Thanks to ggrosseck’s Bookmarks on Delicious I became aware of a tool that shows my Twitter activity stats and connections.
TwitterFriends statistics for emapey2
TwitterFriends statistics for emapey
This tool shows replies FROM my @emapey and @emapey2 and replies TO my @emapey and @emapey2 accounts.
This is another very useful tool which provides data about your connections. You [...]

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CCK08, Connectivists Should Develop Their Own Connections Using Social Tools

Sui Fai John Mak asks for suggestions for a wiki, ning or edublog on connectivism to continue the conversation after the CCK08 course. As connectivists, we already have many tools to continue connecting and learning: our blogs, Twitter, Delicious, Ustream.TV, Twitter Search, Google Blog Search. I don’t think we need to create any new [...]

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