When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of 'living networks' was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. And any two people in the world are connected by no more than six steps. MORE >>

Tweet I haven’t attended a large face-to-face conference in the learning field for over a year, so DevLearn 2010 was a new experience after so much professional time mostly online. Facebook connects people who have usually already met. Twitter is a becoming an important connection machine. Via MORE >>

link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MORE >>

Now Royal Pingdom has compiled a nice list of real connection speeds in countries around the world, using the largest content delivery network, Akamai , as the source, making this probably the most reliable data available. Here is the list below. Source: Royal Pingdom. Their long-term broadband policy has shaped the country and society. MORE >>

People are using the Internet to connect to information, but more importantly, to connect with people. And yet so many people seem totally confused and overwhelmed about the right way to connect through social media channels. Here are 10 ways to really connect with others through social media: Focus, focus, focus. Smile. MORE >>