Following on today's earlier posting about how TELUS are using Sharepoint as their social learning and collaboration platform, and the stream of recent negative postings about Facebook, here's a posting by Chris Dawson at ZDNet that suggests Sharepoint 2010 is a Facebook alternative - for education. He summarises
A look at SharePoint’s technologies and available out-of-the-box social functionality certainly suggests some interesting possibilities for schools (and businesses and organizations for that matter).
Sharepoint 2010: There's your Facebook alternative, May 2010
(Note: Sharepoint ranked #50 in our Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009, so clearly a number of people already believe it is an important social learning tool)
