Monday, January 7, 2008 Facebook for Enterprise worklight has announced a secure enterprise overlay for facebook, allowing workers to use all the social networking tools of facebook, whilst keeping sensitive company information behind a firewall. The blurb states that employees can freely use Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no
A new study from communications watchdog Ofcom has revealed that people in the UK are much ‘keener on online networking’ than other Europeans. More adults in the UK use social networking sites such as Facebook than in other European countries, says the second annual International Communications Market report. Four out
The Bazaar – Homehttp://www.bazaar.org/The Bazaar – portal for Open Source for Learning in EuropeThe Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning. Distance Learning through Telematicshttp://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearningThe University of Plymouth’s e-learning website, containing regularly updated pages of
Some interesting social software for learning: Ectohttp://www.ectolearning.com/Their blurb: “Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity. Ecto is the only learning management system built from the ground up on the principles and architecture of social software.”
The BBC has an interesting roundup of social networking sites under the headline “Don’t be lonely this Christmas”
I was certainly nodding at Tim Rudd’s exhortation to us to think about learning spaces for the future without being “held back” by starting from where we are now. We must not be bound by cultures and habits from existing methods of teaching and assessment – let’s be innovative! That
An article in The Observer about the maverick Web entrepreneur Dan Wagner is sceptical about the millions to be made in social networking sites. Although most have yet to make a profit, several social networking sites have sold for enormous sums. Wagner is launching shopping website Osoyou: which aims to
The BBC reports today that Oxford proctors are using the Facebook website to gain evidence about unruly post-exam pranks. They are checking students’ profiles and photos to find evidence of students being at the sites where problems have been reported. This should remind us all to be careful about what
In conversations I’ve had recently about public online communities and social networking sites, the point has been made that if a community is moderated (particularly pre-moderated, that is before publication) then it is closer to a “publishing model” and the owners of the community can be seen as responsible for
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