Social Networking Extended to Social Media Networking. The video is a presentation by Microsoft on a software (C Dragon) that integrates and captures images found in Web 2.0 tools and assembles them into one image. It’s like composing a singular…
Tag: Web 2.0
The Future of Technology – Amazing, Challenging, and Mind-boggling
Digital Natives – Who They are, What They Do
The videos below tremendously helped me understand the world of Digital Natives. Digital natives are born with technology as ubiquitous part of their lives. Digital immigrants are those who have to learn the technology. From the Institute of Social Research.…
“Electronic Enlightenment” – e-Book – Kindle by Amazon
A new electronic reader can be a key to “Electronic Enlightenment.” Steven Levy’s article in Newsweek on “The Future of Reading” explores the benefits, impacts and benefits of Amazon’s new “Kindle.” The Kindle is a reading device, 10.3 ounces, paper…
“Teaching Machines” – How People can Use Web 2.0 and Social Networking
I love storytelling and media. The video from Michael Walsh of Kansas State University touched me because it brought another view, often times missed, about the potential of what people can do with Web 2.0, Social Networking and other technologies.…
Twitter # 24 Using Blog as Speaker Tool
Try this experiment. I created a blog that participants from the audience can send email to, post their comments, questions and ideas. During the whole length of my presentation, on Social Networking and Learning Impacts, I asked the audience of…
“The Outsourced Brain”
Through Dave Snowden’s blog, I found this interesting New York Times article “The Outsourced Brain.” David Brooks says: The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop solitude and serenity in meditative trance, but I, a grasshopper, have achieved the oneness with the…
Twitter # 22 – Email is Old-Fashion
Many years ago when you are in a conversation and you say you used dial-up for Internet connection — it was a wow, you are connected. Then later, you need to have at least DSL to get the wow effect.…
Twitter # 21 – Worthless Wrist Watch
How do you know you are really behind the curve in technology? You wear a wrist watch. “Why use a wrist watch? What does it do? What?!!! It only does one thing – tell time?” —this is what a young…
Twitter # 20 – Pleasant Surprises, Unexpected Areas
Twitter # 19 – Why Integrate Web 2.0? Let it Be!
There is no immediate need for trainers or e-learning leaders to think of “how do I integrate the Web 2.0 in my formal programs?” Learn, experiment, discover and see how it works in small tests. Integration might not be needed.…
Twitter # 11 – Look for failures that lead to impacts
Trends in technological success… Look for repeated attempts and failures. This suggests a persistent problem needing a solution. A solution eventually comes when a technology builds on top of the failures. For example, Second Life succeeds from the failures of…
Twitter # 17 – We Over Analyze, Not Experience
Due to focusing too much on results and how to make it work, we fail to jump in and experience the tools. This is how trainers relate to technology. Digital Natives, however, just jump, explore and experience the tools. Ray…
Twitter #18 – Another Form of Crisis
There are two forms of serious crisis. Environmental crisis. Human capital crisis. We systematically decrease intelligence and creativity by “education”. Case in point: children in grade school show a lot more creativity, compared to a 30- year- old person. As…
The Value of the Network is in Defined, Small Groups
Dan Karp wrote an observation on the value of networks in relation to Facebook’s growth, which resounds to me since I always suspect that “networks have to stay small to be productive.” This insight could save us a lot of…