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big ideas about social media, the most popular social sites, including Facebook and Twitter, music, videos and photos, geo-location services, education, privacy and safety, social good, activism and government, from Mashable.

Social Media Research Founadation: Social media researchers who want to create open tools, generate and host open data, and support open scholarship related to social media.

recent Microsoft survey that reveals how information workers around the world view social tools.

vftnetworks.com, formerly TrainingPayback.com, started as a quest to help organizations use a Web 2.0 application to help learners and trainers track learning impacts. The idea was to use social learning, collaboration and widgets and tools to facilitate learning applications. Today, vftnetworks provides organizations and businesses two distinct solutions: (a) vftnetworks for social and collaborative learning and (b) social learning for generating profit and revenues.

#1 social business solution for  for SharePoint & the Microsoft ecosystem

Don't Lie, Don't Pry Don't Cheat, Can't Delete Don't Steal, Don't Reveal

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So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Many of these tools and services are free or have a free trial period

eLearning Tags-A social bookmarking site to share, vote and discuss interesting eLearning content.

social computing platform specifically built for the workplace

Search, browse and enjoy multimedia content created by the members of your community. Start on your PC, pick up on your iPhone. Ask questions of the community. Get immediate answers from multiple  Easily communicate to members by uploading a video, recording your screen, sharing a document, or writing a post.

Curatr's Social Learning platform focusses on learners actively creating and curating content, not simply clicking the "next" button on a PowerPoint presentation.

Portfolio including: E-Learning: From Simulations and immersive learning environments to learning apps and micromodules, we design e-learning programs in all formats for corporations, non-profits and learning institutions. Social Learning-We give your learners the chance to seize important learning opportunities through informal participation and by bridging the gap between formal and informal learning. Mobile Learning- We create interactive mobile learning that follows your learner anywhere using browser-based platforms or device-specific apps.

With society wrapped in a cultural transformation expedited by technology, we continue to use an evaluation model that, quite simply, was built on the premise that learning occurs solely in a classroom.

Evaluating informal and social learning using Backwards Planning and Evaluation Model.

#lrnchat is an online chat over the social messaging service Twitter that now happens twice every Thursday: first at 11:30-1pm ET/4:30-6pm BT/5:30-7pm CET and then again at 8:30-10pm ET/5:30-7pm PT.