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Key Findings Here are just some of the findings from this report:E-Learning 2.0 modalities are growing at very fast rates with use of blogs up 20.7% from a year ago, communities of practice up 12.3%, and Wikis up 7.7%.40% of respondents indicate they are making some use of e-Learning 2.0 approaches.Over the next 12 months, 70.1% of survey respondents plan to apply more e-Learning 2.0 approaches to their learning endeavors.66% of survey respondents believe that younger workers will demand e-Learning 2.0 approaches to performance support.Only 28.1% of members report that their organizations are preparing workers on using Web 2.0 approaches for learning and work.Among members working in organizations with 10,000 or more workers, 10.8% cannot access LinkedIn, 26.2% cannot access Gmail, 35.0% cannot access YouTube, and 39.2% cannot access either Facebook or MySpace.Among members who have made significant use of e-Learning 2.0 approaches, 60.6% reporting improved learner / user performance.

Whether you’re a scholar, an enthusiast, an archivist or librarian, you’ll find Omeka easy to use and customize to your needs. To use a phrase from early on in the project, Omeka is a great tool to “show your stuff” on the web. Digital photos, scans of documents, texts, video.. anything. It will help organize those objects, and present them elegantly on the web.

WordPress don’t use structured metadata the way that scholars, libraries, and archives do. We have controlled vocabularies, 50 ways of classifying the same thing, and need a system that allows us to easy do that.