Tweet Here are some more questions from our Working Smarter conversation on 30 March 2011, followed by my comments. Feel free to weigh in. Q1: Our Legal department discourages social learning because the communication cannot be reviewed by them before being presented. How has this been addressed by others? Social learning is already happening. MORE >>

Last Tuesday I presented Perspectives on the Information Literate University at an internal seminar at the Open University (the photo shows a sculpture outside the library). For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major British distance learning university, which has had over 1.5 million people studying with it in its 40 year history. MORE >>

You don’t need to be a software developer or hardcore techie to use APIs. In fact, some web APIs, like the Twitter API , are relatively easy to use, and you can use them get access to useful and otherwise hidden data. Before you can start to play with Twitter’s API, you’ll need to know a few API basics. Show User Data. link]. MORE >>

For April Fool’s of this year, we (the Internet Time Alliance , with large credit to Jane and Harold) posted a message on our site: The Internet Time Alliance (ITA) has spent much of the past year on a mission. We have located and assembled a huge collection of informal learning content. “Without content there is no learning. social MORE >>

I received a free copy of Get Out of #Jail Free Card eBook by Mark White. It's an interesting treatment of the "information overload" disease that many people seem to have. Rather than going into great detail about the causes and impact of these issues, he has designed the book as a three-week program to free the reader of their own "jail." MORE >>