I really enjoyed this piece. I have read some other work from this same blog and found it to be pretty good. I like the last section where he talks about how the use of technology is a mindset. I have found that to be true. Setting unrealistic timelines for adoption often leads to resistance, which is good for nobody.

This is a good set of tools and instructions for creating and maintaining a PLN.

This is a pretty good explanation of how Twitter has been useful for creating a PLN for this organization.

Here are more great tips and tools for creating a PLN.

This is a solid description of what a Community of Practice is in reference to learning styles.

This is an interesting take on how a PLE can work in a school environment. Students can use their PLN as a collection system for information when they are doing their projects.

Lots of tools for creating a PLE, as well as all things PLE. *note - this is info from the 2010 PLE World Conference

Under PLN Strategies there are some really good resources on how to create a personal learning plan, and some experiments on PLN's as professional development.

Personalized Learning has a good report on the stages of personalized learning that happen when you start a new personalized learning environment.

People to People seems to use the connectivist learning theory quite a bit. It is all about using other peoples information to help rather than using resources to re-research the same information. This is a pretty neat group.

This is a pretty simple explanation of connectivism. Basically it is about adding nodes to your PLN which connects you to another resource.

This is a cool blog that includes a lot of resources for implementing social media in classrooms.