I used Typealyzer to find my Online Sapiens blog personality. I analyzed the newest 10 pages of this blog. 80% of the results indicate that the author of this blog is of the type:

INTJ – The Scientist
The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They are especially good at looking at almost anything and figuring out a way of improving it – often with a highly creative and imaginative touch. They are intellectually curious and daring, but might be physically hesitant to try new things.

The Scientists enjoy theoretical work that allows them to use their strong minds and bold creativity. Since they tend to be so abstract and theoretical in their communication they often have a problem communicating their visions to other people and need to learn patience and use concrete examples. Since they are extremely good at concentrating they often have no trouble working alone.

You can learn more About Typealyzer and Psychographics

I found Typeanalyzer via Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog

I would like to learn about your blog personality.

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 Moodle forum, CCK09: The Daily is Down – What is the impact on the course?

These were some comments in the thread:

- James Neill – Thursday, 24 September 2009, 04:04 PM Daily Down? No problem in a world of network plasticity (aka neuroplasticity). What are we missing? Downes’ personalised collection of daily notables – he or others can and do post just as much elsewhere. Could even be seen as advantageous as other connections step up.

- luz pearson – Thursday, 24 September 2009, 06:35 PM The course is elsewhere. The Daily is great reading for breakfast: it gives you an order, makes you feel that even if you can´t participate on discussions, read posts, comments or nothing, you are still with the flow…you can still be connected. The truth is that CCK09 keeps on going. Let´s think they did it on purpose to let us get something out of this. The instructor is the network you can make?

- Maijann Ruby – Friday, 25 September 2009, 04:15 AM I thought it was very generous to provide ‘a Daily’ in the first place.

- Jane Brotchie – Friday, 25 September 2009, 06:30 AM This week the postings are noticeably fewer. Is it because the Daily is down or are people struggling with the theories or has the first flush of excitement given way to work pressures? I confess some of the theoretical arguments are way over my head so I’m struggling to find my place. I wonder how many lurkers are feeling the same? I think for those of us who are new to this way of working, any anchor point is useful. I’m a bit of a list person (sadly) and having a place where I can consider my day is useful. Come to think of it, maybe I should make my own Daily – or is that what a PLE is?

Cosimo Urbanowicz – Friday, 25 September 2009, 12:12 PM
The most useful way to think about it is to imagine that the daily is down intentionally — to provoke us to build our own! Where do you think the conversation is most visible/ active right now, beside this forum?

Eric Calvert – Friday, 25 September 2009, 02:08 PM
Nice “glass half full” way to look at the crash, Cosimo. I think maybe an unintended benefit of the way the course has been structured is that learning continues despite one of the instructors being temporarily knocked out. Had all conversation depended on Downes’ server, it would have been a catastrophic disruption (for us, I mean. I’m sure it feels like a catastrophe for Downes…) rather than a temporary inconvenience.

and Riitta Suominen also posted about this topic

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 Social Networks
- My Twitter Social Network

Introduction to Social Network Theory:
Social Network Analysis
Networks: Theory and Application — Open.Michigan via Benjamin Stewart
orgnet.com – Social network analysis – Projects, Cases & Research
T N T – The Network Thinker
T N T — The Network Thinker: So many people, So little time
orgnet.com – Innovation Happens at the Intersections
How to Save the World
Introduction to Social Network Methods

Sobre Redes (in Spanish)
Teoría de redes sociales – Indianopedia
Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales
Propiedades de las Redes – CCK09 « Conexiones
Quíenes usan Twitter en la Argentina (Parte 1) via Sabrina De Vita

About the Dunbar Number
Twitter Friends and the Influence of Influentials – Skillful Minds
Social networks that matter
Twitter under the microscope – First Monday
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

About the Tipping Point – Connectors, Mavens and Persuaders
Applying Gladwell/ Tipping Point theories to twitter users
Impact as a 21st-Century Library Media Specialist
The Form of Money: Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen
Are you a Connector, a Maven, or a Salesman? – Stepcase Lifehack
Creative Perch – Every Monday is Tip Day! This Week: Connect with a Maven
Creative Perch – Every Monday is Tip Day! This Week: Get Connected
Creative Perch – Every Monday is Tip Day! This Week: Connect with a Salesman
Daily Kos: Mavens, Persuaders, Connectors and Us
Tipping Point Toast for Communities? – edublogs

About Granovetter – Strong and Weak Ties:
The Strength of Weak Ties – Granovetter seminal paper
Social Networks And Group Formation – Boxes and Arrows
Weak Ties Vs Strong Ties, Advantages and Disadvantages – Social Network
Jim Moore’s blog – Note on why blogs matter: The Strength of Weak Ties
Memetics meets Granovetter. Many-to-Many
Social Networking Tools to Develop Strong, Weak and Potential Connections

About Small World and Scale Free Networks:
Asynchronous discussion groups as Small World and Scale Free Networks
The worldwide air transportation network
Barabasi, Linked: The New Science of Networks

About Social Networking
Egocentric and Object Centric Networks
What kind of Twitter User are You? | JR Farr
Twitter: “pointless babble” or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
Twitter VS Facebook « Sabrina’s Weblog
Visualizing Relationships on Twitter and Social Networks
Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated
Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part II: Personal Circles
LinkedIn Facebook Twitter – Different Connection Style
LinkedIn Connection Approach Rethought

Characteristics of my Twitter Social Network:
What Type of Twitter User Am I?, Online Sapiens
TweetStats :: for emapey2
Map of emapey2’s Twitter Friends, via Silvia Andreoli

CCK08 Forum: Networks
Who Are the Good Informants in your Network?, CCK08
CCK08: Which is the most successful network in history?
CCK08: Norming of the Nodes

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 to alert me and make sure I read the bookmark!! We are communicating with each other.

I would like to give thanks to Laura Malita and Gabriela Grosseck who are my 2 Delicious fans who have sent to me (send) most bookmarks I have received, so far, directly in my Delicious Inbox

I would also like also to give thanks to to my friend Luz Pearson. When she asked me, Why do you like so much Delicious bookmarks sent to you? she inspired me to write this post.

In this ways we both can keep with each others most useful bookmarks while we continue using our favorite social bookmarking tool

Related Posts: Related Posts: Using Del.icio.us in Education « Online Sapiens

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 Recordings

I think that by using my PLE for the CCK09 open online course it is easy to follow the conversations, and make connections:
Google Blog Search: cck09 – Google Blog Search
Twitter CCK09: cck09 – Twitter Search
WordPress CCK09: Cck09 Blogs Posts on WordPress
Delicious Bookmarks: Recent cck09 Bookmarks on Delicious
Wiki (in Spanish): ourconnectivismjourney

These are my own CCK09 blog posts and bookmarks:
Emapey’s CCK09 Bookmarks: emapey’s cck09 Bookmarks on Delicious
Onlinesapiens CCK09: Connectivism « Online Sapiens Blog

Claudia Ceraso posted:

Whatever makes a post or blog a gem is that blogger’s ability to express what other people wish they could, but they can’t. Yet.

How does all of that networked learning start to happen?
I think there is a simple structure:
Content first, people second.

Claudia, I usually find better content by following Google Blog Search and Delicious Tags feeds than following individual blog feeds. Yes, I am searching for content and not for bloggers.

But I will follow blogs from my friendly connections. I need to keep up with what they are posting to comment, learn and teach them.

I am also always searching for new connections for my PLN (Personal Learning Network). Newbies, can become the future top bloggers. It’s better to already have them earlier as connections in your network

I need to give thanks to Jay Cross and Learntrends, hosts of corporate learning online conferences. They allowed me to present at the April 2009 Learntrends Online Conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning.

They hoped to keep the conversation platform open for 24 hours, enabling people to continue the dialog around the world. I knew they needed to fill some empty spaces in the agenda. So I thought I would not find a better opportunity to make a presentation online.

I was so excited!! I have chosen the topic: Selling eLearning in your organization, naming and overcoming the obstacles. I requested to make the presentation only on April 20 2009, in the evening
My presentation was accepted and added to the Agenda on the morning of April 21, a few hours before the opening of Learntrends Conversations.

My presentation was scheduled for April 22, 4.00 GMT (1.00 am in my country). I have requested this time, early in the morning, because I knew they needed to fill those empty hours and at that hour everyone at home would be sleeping, so I would not be distracted.

I soon found that all the articles I had on “Selling eLearning in your organization, naming and overcoming the obstacles” were authored by only one blogger. I didn’t want to use my presentation to talk only about what some else had already posted!! So, the Learntrends Conversations Online Event started, I needed to listen to other presentations, it was April 21 on the afternoon and I still didn’t knew what to talk about on my presentation. I had no topic, yet!!!

Listening to other presentations gave me the clue to what to talk about so, for me, it was really worth the time to have listened to other people’s presentations. I didn’t have much time to reflect about the topic I had selected, though

The night arrived and my presentation was only a couple hrs away. I was so nervous and I started walking in my backyard. After walking during 30 min I felt ready to start my presentation

I didn’t expect what happened later. I expected to talk during 15 or 20 min and perhaps about 5-10 min of Q and A. My presentation lasted 61 min!!!!, since there was no one scheduled after me.

There were 20 people in the Elluminate room but you really don’t know how many of them are really there listening to you. I remember that Jay and 2 or 3 others asked me some questions. I want to give thanks to all of them. They were so kind to spend their time, listening to me, and while my English was bad, they seemed to be really interested in what I was talking about.

Update – During my presentation I talked about the importance of using email in elearningl! Everyone uses email to communicate and collaborate online.

An example I have found is that the University of Phoenix was using Outlook Express and Newsgroups to teach online courses.

Now, some months later, I just read about Google Wave

Millions of companies have sharepoint, wiki’s etc. and they ARE NOT USING THEM. They keep sending emails to each other with recent updates in documents. They have done so for years.

So what is the solution? Stop calling it google documents and start calling it google wave. Make it look like email. Make it feel like email. Make it just replace email all together.

It’s like giving all the idiots out there shared revisioned document control, but putting an email-like interface on top of it and tell them ‘its just like email’.

It’s brilliant because this one will actually work. The challenge was never technical. We have seen all this before. But not integrated like this and masquerated as if it’s email.

And you have to be a real out-touch-with-reality geek to not realize that.

Even Google recognizes the importance of email!!

My Elluminate session was recorded. You can listen to my presentation, including the backchannel, from my Archive.org Moving Images page

I want to give special thanks to Jay. He was always online attending the conversations!!! Sorry Jay for this late post. It was a long post and not so easy to write for me.

I want to give thanks to my British friend Nicola Avery who was the only friend so kind enough to have some Skype Video Talks with me which gave me the confidence to make a presentation online, speaking in English.

I want also to give thanks to David Delgado who was kind enough to give me feedback about my presentation

Twitter is not enough. I recommend to all my teacher friends to start or continue blogging:

David Truss wrote a great post, My blog is my PhD. He wrote:

It has been peer reviewed, and quoted, commented on, and even presented… furthermore, it has an extensive bibliography.

What do you think?

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 I follow. By following I mean, subscribing to the RSS feeds and using a feed reader to keep updated with new posts.These feeds from searches let me find ALL posts from ANY blog about the topics I am following. The problem is finding the right searches that give good results (good signal to noise ratio)

Google Blog Searches are always on my PLE. Online conferences and courses are always tagged and it’s, then, really easy to search for the tag to keep updated, like I did in My PLE for the CCK08 Connectivism Course

You should follow your friends blogs, though. They are the most important connections in your network and so, you should keep up with their blogging.

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 about people or about information.