Social Networking - Articles Archive
from February 25, 2008 to January 15, 2008

Want to send a really huge file to someone but don't know how? A new web-based service allows you to send files of up to 2GB in size without even registering! How is that for effective online team collaboration? But there is more indeed, especially if ... read more

Today your strongest asset is your network. Your social network of informed, intelligent peers, is going to be the most valuable resource you have against the increasing landslide of information coming at you. It is in the wisdom of crowds, in word of mouth marketing, and ... read more

OoVoo is a new free videoconferencing solution that works across PCs and Macs (Linux version coming) and which allows up to six participants in a video call, as well as recording, text chat, direct file sharing and a lot more. In general, OoVoo is rather easy to ... read more

Do you want to connect to upgrade your toolkit for online collaboration with some good tools? Need a wiki? Want to share files and documents with your team? Don't know how to connect all major instant messengers at once? Not all are new, but they are ... read more

Getting to understand, appreciate and follow all that happens in the online world takes more attention and energy than any normal individual can ever have. This is why, increasingly we need newsmasters, curators, and opinionated digest editors who can explore, scan, select and report on what ... read more

The skills that are highly valued today are not even distantly related to the skills that are developed in our educational prison facilities year after year, week after week, class after class, when students are put into classrooms, disconnected from each other to fill tests, amputated ... read more

"Biology is war, in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating and destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your side winning at all costs." But there is a new narrative that is spreading across and that tells a new story, about ... read more

In this weekly selection of online collaboration tools, instant messaging, how to effectively organize your team by creating projects and assigning tasks , new tool to share any type of file online and a service that allows to write on the same document with others in ... read more

Making Sense of New Technologies and Media is a weekly digest, curated by education, technology and media expert George Siemens and focused on analyzing, reporting and providing thoughtful insight into the use and intelligent application of such new technologies to our everyday lives In this week digest: a) ... read more

Microblogging and lifestreaming have been two of the more popular tech industry buzzwords of 2007. But what are they, why would you use them, and how can you go about doing so? In this beginner's guide I take a look at the new breed of online applications, ... read more

Instant message with your team, share audio, video and photos, create a chatroom with no computer programming knowledge or to turn your PC into a file sharing service, are a few of the interesting online collaboration tools and web services I have selected this week for ... read more

Helping others see what you are talking about can be a powerful communication advantage, and understanding how visuals and images work can make all of the difference in the world in achieving it. This and many others interesting insights, at the convergence point of media, technology, ... read more

Need to collaborate online more and better? In this weekly selection of online collaboration tools there are some great (free) tools you really can't miss: whether you want to create a free video conferencing room, instant message your working team using a dedicated IM, share huge ... read more

How do great ideas spread and become "influencers" for those who are exposed to them? How can you involve yourself in deciding how to get our children educated? Are online learning tutorials a trend that is going to grow? How are future classrooms going to look ... read more

In the near future, the value of your free online content is going to be challenged over and over again. And to the few scrapers that now copy and re-syndicate your content as if it was theirs, you will need to add remixers, automated scripts and ... read more

Do you really know how Google performs its search "magic" and how it weighs your site inside search results? Are video tutorials the next wave? Is social networking going to be as relevant and impactful also inside the education universe? On these, and other more interesting technology-related ... read more

When communicating inside a virtual distributed team, things are not as clear and evident as when you operate in traditional physical environments. Virtual teams are somewhat more sensitive to bad or improper use of communication tools and methods as such teams pivot their key abilities specifically ... read more

Want to market, promote and monetize your best quality content and find out which are the effective guerrilla marketing actions that could help you the most? In this seven-minute excellent video presentation recorded last November at the nextMEDIA: Monetizing Digital Media event, Will Pate, shares with ... read more