This week in review

Firstly, some news about the C4LPT Learning Network, which I posted about a week ago.  We already have lots of new members, and a growing set of social, collaborative projects.  What is the C4LPT Learning Network?  Find out here.  If you are a learning professional, come and join us, and help build these projects. (Just email [email protected] for an account).  Here are just a few of the collaborative projects you will find - and what is more any member can set up their own collaborative project(s) as well:

• A Guide to Social Learning - Contribute to the Guide to Social Learning - with examples of how you are using different social media applications, tools and technologies (for formal and informal learning)
  
• Workplace Learning 2.0 - Contribute to the discussion of the use of social media/Web 2.0 for workplace learning
• E-Learning in a recession - Contribute your thoughts on how that learning professionals can help their organisations survive the recession
• Social Media Programme Contribute to the development of a syllabus for a Social Media Programme

Note: There are RSS feeds for all these projects, as well as for other pages at the Network, including members' blogs and bookmarks.

Now, for some other news. As ever, lots of interesting 3rd party Twitter apps have appeared: 

• Twitlet - it's the fastest and simplest way to Twitter!
• Twitter Backup - free backup for your Twitter
• Twications.Com - Twitter + Notifications = Twications! a FREE service that allows you to schedule reminders
• Twitulater an Adobe AIR microblogging client
• TwitterCounter Stats The Ultimate Twitter Statistics Provider!
• Tweeterate rate the tweets you get from your friends.

A recent Pew Internet report Twitter and status updating states that "As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others."  It seems to me that Twitter is growing fast.  If you haven't yet joined up, you can find out more about what it can do for you, here (on the Micro-blogging with Twitter page in the Guide to Social Learning)

Twitter is proving to be a very versatile tool, e.g. it is being used to create a Twitter adaptation of Shakespeare's play, the Taming of the Shrew at Twitter of the Shrew, as this article at Mashable explains.  If  you have any other interesting examples of use of Twitter, do let me know of add them to the Micro-blogging with Twitter page in the Guide to Social Learning.

I also came across a couple of interesting document sharing sites:

• DocVerse - Sharing and Group Editing for Microsoft Office (in beta)
• Docuter - Online document viewer, document uploading, document sharing and publishing

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Comments

[Keith Hamon]

I tried Twitter for about a year, but made the mistake of following too many people. Most of the stream became nonsense, a distraction. Maybe it's time to clean it up.

[Jane Hart]

Keith - It's probably time for you to re-think why you want to use Twitter; we all like use it in different ways. Then you can select the right people to follow.

See the section on Planning your use of Twitter on the Twitter page in the Guide - http://www.c4lpt.net/pg/pages/view/305/