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So you think social media are for socialising, huh?
Jane Hart, who can be relied upon to have her finger on the pulse, is building up a series of case studies of the use of social media "INTERNALLY for social and collaborative learning and/or performance and productivity improvement". The examples (at the time of writing) include British Telecom; Pearson; BUPA; WWF; Nationwide and NASA. And the list os growing.
Karyn's Erratic Journey - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia , will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. Each panelist spoke about a specific case study - the New York Times' coverage of last summer's protests in Iran, for example - and discussed how they gathered crowd-sourced information and attempted to verify its authenticity. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment. But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and other online
ReadWriteWeb - Monday, March 15, 2010
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Reusing and Recycling With Toyota Conversations by Tweetmeme
The collaboration is about more than simply utilizing a social media tool to reach out to customers. These concepts of reuse, reuse and recycle on the Web are not new , however Tweetmeme example is a solid case study that demonstrates these concepts well. In the kids book "George Saves the World by Lunchtime", George saves the world through recycling. His four tips are reduce, repair, reuse and recycle.
ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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  • Smart.fm: How to move from web to mobile
    We clustered these characteristics and then used these as starting points for imagining use cases for the iPhone app. We voted on the top use cases and clustered them based on the mental “mode” a user would be in when engaging in that activity: Are they in a “Study” mode? Add use cases to the wall near the characteristics from which they emerged. Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Monday, June 22, 2009
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  • Smart.fm: Why Goals are the new Lists
    8221; The team ( Me , Brian Cronin and Kate Rutter ) sought out new ways to bring people together and engage them in collaboration and competition around learning. Instead of organizing content around topics, which people may study for many different reasons, content will soon be organized around Goals that people can form communities around. experience — discovering, learning, celebrating, collecting, Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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  • Bringing the smart.fm Experience to the iPhone
    All of the ideas generated were clustered and use cases for the smart.fm The next step was the organization of the resulting use cases into a mental model and the listing of application features under each mental space. Study : See what I need to do, do it, and see how I’m doing Imagine that you want to learn how to read and speak Japanese. You’ve heard about the web-based learning applications offered by smart.fm and check them out.
    Adaptive Path - Friday, June 12, 2009
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  • Smart.fm: Developing a Great Experience
    The combined team, working across many time zones and many miles of ocean collaborated almost daily. They select a goal and begin studying it with the learning game Alexa described earlier . In addition, the user’s study progress needs to be synced back to the Smart.fm Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Thursday, October 29, 2009
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  • BuddyPress as a university’s social network: case study
    8230;The potential for supporting personalised and group online learning is now better than it’s ever been and the social networking element only helps bring peers together for collaboration and discussion. BuddyPress: Friends activity , originally uploaded by umwdtlt . It’s exciting to see Jim Groom’s pioneering work integrating WordPress Multi-User with BuddyPress and bbPress not only being recognised, but being pushed forward in the higher ed community.
    Abject Learning - Friday, March 13, 2009
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  • Google Wave in Action: Real-World Use Case Studies [Use Cases]
    featured the most unique use cases I got in a brand new chapter just added to The Complete Guide to Google Wave . Take a look at some real-world case studies of Wave in action. With maps and Yes/No/Maybe built in, party, vacation, brunch, or any event planning is one of Wave's most obvious use cases. A week ago we asked readers to tell us how they're using Google Wave in their daily lives, and despite a bit of "ha! no one's using Wave!"
    Lifehacker - Monday, February 8, 2010
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  • Collaboration - Knowledge Management - Expert - Hot List
    eLearning Learning Hot List - May 29, 2009 to June 5, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Adobe eLearning Suite: is it worth it? - Clive on Learning , May 29, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Mistakes made in Academic Blogs - Don't Waste Your Time , June 3, 2009 Time Spent - The Learning Circuits Blog , June 1, 2009 Presentation: Camtasia in eLearning - Don't Waste Your Time , June 4, 2009 Does Deliberative Practice Lead to Quick Proficiency? - eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Should
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • FledgeWing Allows Student Entrepreneurs to Find Mentors, Capital, Collaborators
    As a case in point, consider how many success stories from the dotcom and Web 2.0 On the network, articles, events, jobs, schools, companies, and student organizations are indexed; would-be entrepreneurs are given opportunities to present their projects, find mentors, and submit case studies. The case studies are presented as business challenges within the tech/social media world and range from the creation of a retail outlet for Microsoft to the development of a business model for No ambitious young person wants to wait until graduation to start working on projects, developing ideas, and building teams.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, June 19, 2009
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  • Share How You Wave and Help Write the Book! [Google Wave]
    Tell us about how you use Wave on a day-to-day basis, and your use case just might get included in The Complete Guide to Google Wave , the first book about Wave. My co-author Adam and I are updating the book to replace theoretical, potential uses for Wave with real-world case studies of actual humans putting Google Wave to good use. Here's how to submit your Wave use case: wave me at ginatrapani@googlewave.com, Google Wave may be in invite-only preview and still lack important features, but early adopters ARE using it—and we want to hear about it. We need
    Lifehacker - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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  • Can Business Be Crowdsourced? 135 Real-World Examples
    Public collaboration, network effects, crowdsourcing - call it what you will, the read/write web is based largely on projects where the value of the whole is greater than the sum of countless parts. From small projects like the collaborative advertising creation project FatMuffin to big company efforts like SAP's Ecosystem , this list is great for inspiration and context. Those parts are contributed by individual people all over the world, often for free. It's world-changing stuff, but can businesses make effective use of this paradigm?
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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