Social Networking - Articles Archive
from May 20, 2009 to March 13, 2009


Why is social media so important? And most importantly, why should you and your company care about? In this article, web strategist George Benckenstein explains in very simple, non-technical words, what marketing experts and businessmen have failed to understand about the real value of social media for ... read more

George Benckenstein - George Benckenstein - May 20, 2009
 
Media Literacy is about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and the ownership - and to be aware of how these factors influence ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - May 16, 2009
 

Live teaching and learning marketplaces are a new emergent set of online exchanges where independent teachers and educators can easily share or sell their know-how with those looking for it. Independent guides and experts can deliver live and recorded lessons using a full set of web ... read more

Robin Good - May 11, 2009
 

Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see, and read. (Source: Wikipedia) Inside this Media Literacy ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - May 9, 2009
 

Tracking and monitoring your incoming links can provide you with great and valuable insight into which sites, social media and other web traffic sources are sending you the best and most qualified visitors for your web site. But how do you go about analyzing those incoming ... read more

Pavel Israelsky - Nana10 - May 6, 2009
 

What is Media Literacy? Media literacy is the ability to bring critical thinking skills and about asking pertinent questions about what's there, and noticing what's not there. And it's the instinct to question what lies behind media productions - the motives, the money, the values and ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - May 2, 2009
 

In this week Media Literacy Digest: the social value of new media, the information cycle, a nice presentation tool, and the real help we get from technology as human beings. While the information cycle (the process whereby information is produced, validated, shared and re-created in other forms) ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - April 25, 2009
 

How is the educational landscape going to change in the near future? Which are the key trends and new directions which are going to influence the most we study, research and learn? New, decentralized forms of learning such as personal learning environments, non-traditional and more flexible approaches ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - April 18, 2009
 

In this week Media Literacy Digest: data visualization, advances in robotics technology, alternative approaches in education, the future of academic courses and the newspaper crisis. If from one hand newspapers want to ride the online business opportunities available to them, while spreading their content to a wider ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - April 11, 2009
 

Give your readers a way to talk to you straight from your web site with a single click of their mouse. That is the promise that several click to call web service providers are offering to bloggers big and small. By simply signing up for one ... read more

Robin Good - April 8, 2009
 

To help you track what's going on with video-conferencing A-listers, check out this new guide where I have reviewed and compared all the best free and low-cost video conferencing tools, conveniently separated in one-to-one and multi-party solutions. Once reserved to pro users with big wallets, shiny hardware, ... read more

Robin Good - April 6, 2009
 

Copyright issues, the online collaboration tools map, visual search engines, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the fascinating topics of this new issue of Media Literacy Digest by George Siemens. The pointers about copyright are particularly worth mentioning. Intellectual property is a serious issue ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - April 4, 2009
 

New ways of consuming news, information visualization, age differences in Internet adoption, and the failure of traditional advertising on the Web, are just some of the hot topics George Siemens navigates through in this Media Literacy Digest issue. The information cycle - creation, dissemination, validation, sharing, re-creation ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - March 28, 2009
 

New education paradigms suggest you get rid of all pre-packaged, fixed approaches in learning, and develop your skills to adapt to as many different needs and situations as possible. Learning to be flexible has indeed become a key resource. "[...] give up the idea that competence must ... read more

Jay Cross - Chief Learning Officer - March 27, 2009
 

Social networking sites, e-portfolios, the value of online meetings, and the crisis of newspapers are just some of the hot topics inside this week George Siemens' Media Literacy Digest. Impression management is the process through which people try to control the impressions other people form of them. ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - March 22, 2009
 

The Paradox of Web 2.0 is the realization that the big transformations and changes sweeping the worlds of communication, marketing and new media, from bottom-up participation to sharing and open collaboration are light years ahead and as distant as a far away galaxy from the education ... read more

Robin Good - Vance's GeekSpeek - March 21, 2009
 

What is the Web 2.0 paradox? It is the living paradox of a society which while it learns and applies fundamental new rules of behaviour and communication thanks to rapid growth of the Internet in many business sectors, it fails yet to have enough moral maturity ... read more

Robin Good - Vance's GeekSpeek - March 20, 2009
 

To write a blog post when you are not connected to the Internet, offline blog editors are the official solution. With these tools you can easily write, edit, spell-check and manage the content of your blog even though you are not connected to the net. ... read more

Robin Good - March 16, 2009
 

The use of mashups in learning, serialized feeds, the value of lectures, and crowdsourcing are just some of the topics George Siemens explores in this new issue of the Media Literacy Digest. The idea of serialized feeds, explored with Stephen Downes, is a fascinating one, and a ... read more

George Siemens - eLearnSpace - March 14, 2009
 

You always hear educators discuss "rethinking education paradigms". But while it makes perfectly sense to find new ways to engage and connect teachers and learners, what is the right path educators should follow? Jay Cross shares his view in this article. Instead of still focusing on ... read more

Jay Cross - Chief Learning Officer - March 13, 2009
 

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