This morning at the ungodly hour of 4:30 am PDT (GMT -7) I shared some of my ideas about connecting the formal learning in universities to the wider, networked world to a group of learning professionals at Tartu University, in Estonia. Networked Learningand Wider World Final. What do you think? MORE >>

A while back I blogged about the possibility of networks and blogospheres cutting into the need for communities. If I have a question about Friendfeed functionality I will not post in my network, but I will go to their feedback room. Actually I lie, I live in Twitter, so naturally I will first post a question to my Twitter network. MORE >>

Nancy White has a post called Communities, networks and what sits in between , which links to a video with herself and the effervescent Robin Good …I am intrigued by the sweet spot between networks and communities. Similar to the concept of Facebook and LinkedIn, it’s a social network with a groups feature. Related. MORE >>

As Meryl wrote a few days ago, LinkedIn and Facebook are excellent business networking tools. Both sites offer useful ways of connecting with people you know, who you can ask to become part of your network. Once a person connects with you, their status will change to “Accepted&#. Facebook: Friend Request Pending. MORE >>

Nancy White has been toiling away with Tony Karrer to develop a dynamic website that aggregates community and network blogs. Tomorrow is the big launch. Tony is the technical wiz behind the site and there are plenty of ways to discover new and interesting information about one of the topics I love: communities of practice. So here is the URL. MORE >>