Why do I Appreciate so Much a Delicious Bookmark Sent to Me?

When I receive a direct bookmark in my Delicious Inbox from someone in my Delicious network I feel honored because I know my fan was thinking about me. My fan knows which are the topics I am more interested in and has decided that the bookmark will be really useful to me. My fan wants [...]

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Finding Useful Feeds For My PLE

I have found there are few blogs I want to follow. Blogs usually come and go and those that remain live, many times have a high noise to signal ratio, their posts are not always of good quality and are sometimes off topic for my needs
There are some Google Blog Search and Delicious searches [...]

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Learning 2.0: When to Use Wikis, Blogs and Social Networks

Which tools are appropriate for creating or viewing content?
Which tools are more focused on people or information?
Donald H Taylor explains very clearly the different uses for wikis, blogs and social networks according to whether they are used for viewing or for creating content, and also according to whether the focus of that content is mostly [...]

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Twitter Conversation: Introducing New Learning 2.0 Tools in your Organization

This is my Twitter conversation I had with my friend Gabriela Sellart about the resistance from students to using new Learning 2.0 tools.
Gabriela asked:
gsellart: how do you convince your students to write directly on the wiki, instead of copying/pasting from word?about 2 hours ago from TwitterFox
emapey2: @gsellart They want to have a copy and [...]

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Getting Prepared for the Online Corporate Learntrends Conversations

I have reviewed my blog and selected the Onlinesapiens posts more relevant to the Corporate Learntrends Online Conversations Event:
- My PLE for the Corporate Learntrends Online Conversations
- Enterprise 2.0 Examples and Successful Stories
- How to Introduce Innovative eLearning Ideas In Your Organization
- Marketing Elearning in your Organization
- Objections To Using [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Examples and Successful Stories

Corporations and organizations are slowly starting to use web 2.0 tools for business. Learning 2.0 prepares college students to work in Enterprise 2.0 Organizations. These are some Enterprise 2.0 examples:
- Cases 2.0 / Cases 2.0
- Real World Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies
- CIA, Pfizer, Wachovia and Sony execs suggest options for adopting Web 2.0
- [...]

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How to Introduce Innovative eLearning Ideas In Your Organization

Excellent post from Inge de Waard, teaching us how to get our innovative eLearning ideas out in our organization no matter what others think!
1- show examples from big companies or big local universities, such as DIA Analysts Are Turning to WEB 2.0 Wikis, Blogs, RSS Feeds and Mashups
2- if you don’t [...]

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Related Posts: Online Community Management

Related posts from this blog about Building, Managing and the Natural Lifecycle of Online Communities:
- Building and Managing Online Communities
- Natural Lifecycle Of Online Communities and Social Networks, CCK08 Connectivism
- How Can New Edubloggers Develop Their Own Communities?
- Del.icio.us Networking Features
- Asynchronous Conferencing Systems on the Web for Education and Training [...]

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Honored to be Nominated for an Education Shorty Award

It all started on Dec 28th when I was checking my Twitter: I found these 2 tweets:
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @nycrican2 for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:23 PM Dec 28th, 2008
- shortyawards @emapey, you were nominated by @buthaina (and 1 other) for a #education Shorty Award http://bit.ly/hGIo 8:40 PM Dec [...]

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Learning 2.0 With Blackboard Online Learning LMS

Another great post from Lisa M. Lane shows us how to use the Blackboard LMS to administrate a college online course while using outside Learning 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis) we want to use for teaching. Blackboard is still a very popular LMS for the administration of college online courses.

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