I'm particularly drawing on both personal experience and on experience with the work skills workshops we are offering. One was having a small (7 person) project team get together on a conference call and have all of us editing the status report real-time via Google Spreadsheets. as well as knowing about tools and methods. MORE >>

Personal organization Software Apps address book security web apps Written by Charles Hamilton. had two friends complain that they received Facebook invitations from me today. don’t remember sending those people invitations, and I never invite anyone to a social network without talking to them first. Adium. AirSet. AOL/AIM/Netscape. MORE >>

personally get a lot of value out of LinkedIn , but I wonder if other people are getting that same value. delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut, FriendFeed, Internal workplace community, PBWiki, Xing, Digg, Friendster (really?), survey and report. More coming on this. That's a surprise. MORE >>

Social Network Examples are Ning and KickApps. However, they typically try to give a better sense of the person and make interactions more social. lot of what it comes down to is the primary view you show users - classic threaded discussion view - or a personal home page with all that is happening in the network. MORE >>

have been part of Ning groups before, but find it overwhelming, very quickly because there seems to be multiple inputs for information. Even as an organizer, when I get into the Ning group, I feel overwhelmed. How do social networks relate to personal learning? don't know about ning or even facebook. tools. MORE >>