Great metaphor by Liz Lawley (see below) people should remember if they are involved in the user experience, design and community-building aspects of social networks: Macworld | Researchers help define next-generation social networking. ???One One thing that???s People want to create villages and they???re being forced into cities. That???s MORE >>

view presentation (tags: blogs sharepoint wikis openpublish08 ). gave a presentation a few days ago at the Open Publish conference in Sydney on collaboration, talking through a range of practical ideas for getting the most out of collaboration tools, while avoiding common pitfalls. MORE >>

Having served on association boards, I know how difficult it is to think strategically about the association while also putting out the usual fires. SLA - the Special Libraries Association - is doing a good job at finding creative ways to market its brand. The cost is the face value of the stamps plus a service fee. for postage. MORE >>

My last post about Twitter for the enterprise (or ‘EnTwitter’ as I called it) generated some rather pointed responses. highlighted the fact that Twitter users currently have to accept all tweets from all people that are of interest to them. You saw him, Didn’t you?" assure you that it won’t be the last). exaggerate. MORE >>

This month on the Learning Circuits Blog - I asked some very leading questions If we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning , etc. Don't we have to conclude that learning professionals must be literate in these things? If so, then what should learning professionals do to become literate? Web 2.0 MORE >>