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A Practical Guide to using Social Media in your Job - an overview presentation

A Practical Guide to using Social Media in your Job

View more presentations from Jane Hart.

You can view the complete Guide online for free at bit.ly/some4job

You can purchase the PDF version for £10 at
  http://c4lpt.co.uk/workingsmarter/pdf.html

E-Learning Debate 2010

Following ths sucess of last year's E-Learning Debate at the Oxford Union, hosted by Epic, this is taking place again this year on Wednesday 6 October.  This year's motion is:

This house believes that technology-based informal learning is more style than substance.

Speaking FOR the motion is Dr Allison Rossett, Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego University.

Speaking AGAINST the motion is my colleague and Chair of the Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross.

Chairing the debate, once again is Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC Technology Correspondent.

Places are limited at the event, but to find out more and register your interest, visit the E-Learning Debate page at Epic.

To keep up with what is happening, you can follow @ElearningDebate on Twitter

The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list is emerging

Voting for this year's Top 100 Tools for Learning has been underway for just over a month.  At the time of writing this blog there have been 277 entries, which means the list is off to a good start.  And from the numbr of tweets, it appears this is becoming a popular resourcee around the world.  So here's just an update on the list so far.

The Top 5 tools are currently

1. Twitter
2. YouTube
3. Google Docs
4. Delicious
5. Slideshare 

You can view the full list here - Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 - where you can also compare the ranking of the tools over the last 4 years.  It makes for some interesting analysis, which I will do when the list is finalised.

Voting will remain open for a few more months, so please do take some time to share your Top Tools, to help make this year's list the best yet.  Thanks for your participation.

Bob and Sue and the Tipping Point

Julie Carle has been producing a great series of videos (using Xtranormal) called Bob and Sue

"Meet Bob and Sue to listen to their perspectives as adult learners returning to University to study Technology Enhanced Learning."

Her latest video, The Tipping Point , is embedded below (Thanks for the namecheck, Julie)

To see all the Bob and Sue videos go to Julie's Bob and Sue page on the Cloudworks site.

Here's the link to the Xtranormal site

Follow Julie Carle on Twitter to keep up to date with her new videos.

How to use social media in your job

Find out  more  about the resource I have produced to help those new to social media find out how to use it in their job or professional practice, in my blog posting on my Social Media for Working and Learning blog: - A Practical Guide to using Social Media in your Job

Historius - social bookmarking ++

I just read about Historius - a social bookmarking tool - on The Next Web - and thought I would pass on the link. 

Not ANOTHER social bookmarking tool, you are probably thinking!  But the Historius website explains more:

"Do you bookmark most interesting sites and articles? If not, is it because bookmarking a lot is too tedious? If yes, how often do you go back to your bookmarks and how easy is it to find things you're looking for?

historious makes bookmarking much easier by creating your very own, personalized search world. Add sites to historious (you can use our bookmarklet or browser extensions, if you want), and your customized search will be available to search within them. The next time you want to find that interesting article about the economy, just search in historious for "economy" and all the articles about economics you saved will appear. It's as simple as that!"

TheNextWeb's posting about Historius is captioned "the bookmarking tool I’ve been waiting for has finally been built" - so if you have drifted away from bookmarking, maybe this one is worth taking a look

Historius

SearchCredible - educational exploration site

Enter your search query and then select a credible resource. (Note only a few are displayed in the image above)

SearchCredible

(Thanks, Dan Weaver)

The Working Smarter Fieldbook 2010

Just released!

The Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Jon Husband, Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, and Clark Quinn aka The Internet Time Alliance

Read excerpts

Buy it. $24 (£16.66). Free shipping

Join the discussion on Facebook

The History Chef

Suzanne Evans told me about this American history/food history blog that she bagan last year while writing a book about the presidents' favorite foods.

As an academic historian, the goal of her blog is to help parents and kids learn how to cook together, learn about history together, and hopefully help them create many great memories and meals together.

But this blog would be enjoyable for anyone - and elegantly presented too

The History Chef:

An introduction to social media - for learning and performance enhancement

I am frequently asked for a link to an introductory guide to social media and its use for leaning and performance improvement, so here is my guide. The contents list is shown in the screenshot below.  This is a social resource as it also provides the opportunity for you to provide your own experiences of using social tools for learning. 

UPDATE

This resource has now been updated, and available as 30 Ways to use Social Media to Work (& Learn) Smarter.