Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Blog Maintenance
I apologize, but I'm doing a little blog maintenance and so there are going to be some posts coming by that are made to organize my blog a bit better.
eLearning 2.0
eLearning 2.0
The following are the best posts from my blog on eLearning 2.0 as of 2007/04/01. I will attempt to update periodically to continue to keep this up to date.
Starting Point:
The following are the best posts from my blog on eLearning 2.0 as of 2007/04/01. I will attempt to update periodically to continue to keep this up to date.
Starting Point:
Practical Suggestions:
- Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides
- Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups
- Shift in eLearning from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids
- Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
Monday, April 2, 2007
An Aha Moment - del.icio.us as Indicator of Valuable Content - Importantly My Content
I saw a post by Ray Sims that quoted Bill Ives writing:
In looking at these numbers and thinking through what they mean.
Now I know that this is what everyone has been telling us for a while about the value of social bookmarking and sites like Digg. Somehow, I never made the connection to helping me for MY CONTENT. Because there's no obvious view in del.icio.us for this information, my suspicion is that I'm not alone in missing this opportunity.
So now that I've finally caught on to what Bill Ives obviously knew (and lots of other folks), what I'd really now like to have is a widget from del.icio.us or someone producing a widget using their API that would be able to produce the most bookmarked pages from a given domain (mine) over a given period of time (e.g., all time, during the past 30 days). I could put this widget in my sidebar to tell people what my best stuff is. And tell people what the most valuable stuff is over the past 30 days. In fact, this would allow me to redo my First Time Visitor Guide with content from this widget.
Does this widget exist? If not, can someone write it for me?
And, can you even produce such a result in del.icio.us itself? Can you show me the pages in descending order according to number of bookmarks that occurred in the past 30 days? Or even over all time? I couldn't figure that out.
As I'm thinking about it, this would be a great tool to have to explore a given blog/site to see what people have found as valuable. So maybe this should be another button to add to the browser that I could click on any domain to show me what the important pages are on that domain (as judged by del.icio.us users). It could also show me newer stuff that people found was important. Since many bloggers haven't caught up with having their own First Time Visitor Guide this gives me one somewhat automatically (and I don't have to rely on the opinion of the author).
I realize that this approach suffers from the same possible abuse by people who want to spend time bookmarking (or digging) stuff that they want to elevate. But, if all they get is having a post in my blog that is elevated there's some possible abuse of this by having people come in and bookmark particular posts of mine that mention them or something like that. I'm just not sure that someone is going to spend the time to do that when the effect is so limited.
Curious what people think?
Putting my blog posts into del.icio.us also allows me to see who else tagged these posts to determine the ones that others found useful enough to tag in del.icio.us.This was a bit of an aha moment for me. I went back to my post: Activity in Last Six Months to see what Page Views, Time on the Page, Number of Comments and number of del.icio.us Bookmarks might tell me about my top ten posts (counted by page view). The table below may require you to visit the blog to see it correctly...
| Page | Views | Time | Comments | Bookmarks |
| Blog Home Page | 10,584 | 0:02:40 | NA | 100 |
| 1. What is eLearning 2.0? | 3,256 | 0:04:50 | 9 | 84 |
| 2. First Time Visitor Guide | 1,610 | 0:03:07 | 7 | 43 |
| 3. Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog | 1,799 | 0:01:34 | 16 | 22 |
| 4. Rapid eLearning Tools | 1,308 | 0:02:59 | 9 | 9 |
| 5. Fun Headline Generator | 941 | 0:01:37 | 0 | 0 |
| 6. Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective | 1,023 | 0:02:38 | 4 | 65 |
| 7. Incredibly Cool! Vision of Future of Application and eLearning Development | 719 | 0:02:51 | 0 | 9 |
| 8. Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools | 599 | 0:03:00 | 8 | 27 |
| 9. Second Life and Learning | 616 | 0:01:45 | 4 | 7 |
| 10. Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tools) | 578 | 0:02:40 | 1 | 4 |
In looking at these numbers and thinking through what they mean.
- Page Views shows interest in the topic, but may not indicate value. Just because someone came to the page doesn't mean that they found valuable content. For example, the post Fun Headline Generator is a neat little tool, but certainly not worthy of being the 5th or 6th most popular post. The amount of traffic is an artifact of search terms.
- Comments indicate interest in some discourse around the topic, but ...
- del.icio.us Bookmarks to me indicate what I think is my most valuable content. And if you think about it, those posts naturally are the ones that people feel they may want to come back to later. Note that: Fun Headline Generator didn't garner any bookmarks because while I may think it's a fun little tool, even though people visit, they didn't think they'd use it (or they would have bookmarked it).
Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning
- eLearning Technology: Informal Learning - Let's Get Real
eLearning Technology: Do You WANT an LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS?
eLearning Technology: Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary
Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides
eLearning 1.0 vs. 2.0 - Help Needed
Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0
Now I know that this is what everyone has been telling us for a while about the value of social bookmarking and sites like Digg. Somehow, I never made the connection to helping me for MY CONTENT. Because there's no obvious view in del.icio.us for this information, my suspicion is that I'm not alone in missing this opportunity.
So now that I've finally caught on to what Bill Ives obviously knew (and lots of other folks), what I'd really now like to have is a widget from del.icio.us or someone producing a widget using their API that would be able to produce the most bookmarked pages from a given domain (mine) over a given period of time (e.g., all time, during the past 30 days). I could put this widget in my sidebar to tell people what my best stuff is. And tell people what the most valuable stuff is over the past 30 days. In fact, this would allow me to redo my First Time Visitor Guide with content from this widget.
Does this widget exist? If not, can someone write it for me?
And, can you even produce such a result in del.icio.us itself? Can you show me the pages in descending order according to number of bookmarks that occurred in the past 30 days? Or even over all time? I couldn't figure that out.
As I'm thinking about it, this would be a great tool to have to explore a given blog/site to see what people have found as valuable. So maybe this should be another button to add to the browser that I could click on any domain to show me what the important pages are on that domain (as judged by del.icio.us users). It could also show me newer stuff that people found was important. Since many bloggers haven't caught up with having their own First Time Visitor Guide this gives me one somewhat automatically (and I don't have to rely on the opinion of the author).
I realize that this approach suffers from the same possible abuse by people who want to spend time bookmarking (or digging) stuff that they want to elevate. But, if all they get is having a post in my blog that is elevated there's some possible abuse of this by having people come in and bookmark particular posts of mine that mention them or something like that. I'm just not sure that someone is going to spend the time to do that when the effect is so limited.
Curious what people think?
Too Much Administration
I just saw this article on CLO - Survey: 40 Percent of Companies Spend up to Half of Training Budgets on Administration
Yikes! This certainly makes you wonder. It also makes you wonder about the wisdom of getting an LMS in place to automate tasks that possibly are very expensive from an overhead perspective.
Yikes! This certainly makes you wonder. It also makes you wonder about the wisdom of getting an LMS in place to automate tasks that possibly are very expensive from an overhead perspective.
Quick Wins in Knowledge Management
Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value
the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as:
One thing I definitely would add to his list. His item #2 talks about how to organize stuff on your computer... I'd suggest that you get desktop search and learn how to use it effectively.
He also suggests a few "cheat sheets" ... I'd love to see examples of these. And when he suggests making it easy to identify experts - I like tools like Illumio for doing that, but I'm wondering what other (lower overhead) solutions exist.
the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as:
- Managing your RSS Feeds
- PKM and Personal Learning
- Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning
- Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ...
One thing I definitely would add to his list. His item #2 talks about how to organize stuff on your computer... I'd suggest that you get desktop search and learn how to use it effectively.
He also suggests a few "cheat sheets" ... I'd love to see examples of these. And when he suggests making it easy to identify experts - I like tools like Illumio for doing that, but I'm wondering what other (lower overhead) solutions exist.
eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More
Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and Blogs and particularly their use.
Geek Squad is a case in point. Many thousands of Geeks are using a growing suite of collaboration technologies to brainstorm new products and services, manage projects, swap service tips, and socialize with their peers.Great Stuff!At Xerox, Chief Technology Officer Sophie VanDebroek turned the process inside out by setting up a wiki that would allow researchers in the R&D group to define collaboratively the company's technology strategy.
IBM uses it for Innovation Jams.
Wikis, blogs, and other tools will arrive in the workplace whether companies are ready or not, as younger employees tend to develop their own self-organized networks that cut across traditional corporate divisions.
Apple Announces iPhone Release Date
Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 11 -- that's the date that Cingular has announced that it will begin selling Apple's long-anticipated iPhone. That date is also the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Source: Crave
Source: Crave
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