By Chuck Frey, posted to Mind Mapping Software Blog October 21 2008. This blog concentrates on mind mapping software. In this post, they make recommendations about software that will be useful in project management, though presumably some PM tools will also include such mapping features.
From TopTenREVIEWS, 2010. There is a comparison chart of 14 leading password management software solutions. Scroll beneath the comparison chart for a brief article outlining why someone might use this software and what to look for when evalutating. Unfortunately, the solutions presented here range in price from $15 to $75. There are no free solutions presented.
By Laura S. Quinn, Idealware, January 2012. Looks at a variety of software tools that can support program evaluation. Report includes a category on Analyzing and Displaying Your Measures, which might be most relevant. There are recommendations for report builders, tools that help create data visualizations, both quantitative and qualitative analysis tools, and dashboard recommendations. Also reference to an organization called Innovation Network, which might be of interest.
The software and linked methods allow the collection and tagging of multiple sense-making items. Items can be linked to traditional systems like content management.
Developed by Texifter, a company founded by Dr. Stuart Schulman of QDAP (see tag QDAP), this is a text analysis tool, with the capability of "reading" text from a variety of social media sources (as well as WordPress) and crowdsourcing the analysis over a peer group of the user's devising. This software has replaced PCAT (an earlier product).
This is free software that you can download in order to tag images (or elements in images) on your website/blog. The tool was created as a merchandising/marketing tool (e.g. visitors can find out where to buy all of the cool things in your image), but it seems ripe for other more scholarly purposes as well. Downside: unclear whether others can tag your images.
We have developed powerful software and services, based on principles of organizational / social network analysis (ONA / SNA), to uncover relationship dynamics and reveal the self-organizing nature of groups.
Phoebe, a "pedagogic planner" is, per the website "a web application designed to provide inspiration and practical support for learning design." In addition to building learning designs in Pheobe, users can also look at the learning design of others.
From it's About page, Protégé is an open-source platform where users can "implement a rich set of knowledge-modeling structures and actions that support the creation, visualization, and manipulation of ontologies in various representation formats."
By Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta, Harvard Business School Working Paper, published 2007. This paper looks at applying the open source (software) model to solve scientific problems.
Headed by Amy Bruckman, Associate professor at Georgia Tech, this Electronic Learning Communities center engages Ph.D. level students in studying the application of constructionist social learning online. They are doing some fascinating work, such as developing software to support leaders of learning communities, offering young A-A males the chance to be game testers and to use that experience credential as a route into computer science studies and careers, etc. These are but two research examples; there are more.
Goog*lio noun (1) a hybrid next generation e-portfolio that utilizes emerging open, social, web2.0, and Google applications such as blogs, wikis, social networks and software to create a student created and controlled personal learning environment and lifelong content management system that can be shared and viewed from different perspectives, within various contexts, and for multiple purposes. noun (2) a free and easy to use portfolio web site for individuals to design as a space, story, and system that functions as a workspace and showcase for learners to collect, select, reflect, publish, link, archive, and demonstrate knowledge, skills, reflections, through multimedia artifacts. verb (3) "googlio it" to publish and connect a digital artifact to your webfolio. origin: rooted in the word folio (as in Da Vinci) + Google (as in all the free Google Apps & Tools) and evolved from portfolio -->
By Christian Kohls (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany); Joachim Wedeknd (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany), Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. 2011.
Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect to fitting context.
This publication addresses both e-learning practitioners and researchers, using an accessible language to communicate sophisticated knowledge and important research methods and results.