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04 Social networking software


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People creating their own learning… Now millions of people are able to easily build detailed accounts of their lives, developing rich online identities, made possible by free, web based social networking software. . The software automatically links people around the world who express similar interests – thus offering a network. With everyone in the network writing, linking, photographing, videoing.. creating.. their experiences, the people connected to the network learn from one another, swapping stories and resources… remixing stories and resources.
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use social networks at work


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“Social networking software holds enormous potential for improving the management of large enterprises…However, work in this area is still immature and in the meantime enterprises should be aware of what’s happening in the world of consumer social networking and implement appropriate usage policies for employees’ use of services such as Facebook and MySpace on company time."

Nick Ingelbrecht, research director at Gartner

www.nma.co.uk/Articles/38730/Businesses+fail+to+tap+into+…

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Network


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The network, defined by Anderson and Dron (2007) as, "a more fluid form of social entity in which members join, create and remove themselves from numerous informal learning and social connections"

Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2007). Groups, networks, and collectives in social software for e-learning, 2007 European Conferences on E-Learning. Copenhagen, Denmark.