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L2A Links for July 30th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 30, 2009

Wikinomics» Blog Archive » Three Focal Points of Open Government – Kevin Morris provides a great summary of the Open Government & Innovations Conference. Includes links to the keynotes from Aneesh Chopra (US CTO), Vivek Kundra (US CIO) and others.
Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion provides a detailed summary of the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace.

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Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 29, 2009

Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline – RWW's sumamry of the interesting report from Universal McCann showing that the holistic social networking sites (Facebook, Orkut) are starting to absorb activity from the niche social media sites (Blogger, Flickr).
In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero – Josh Catone pulls together a number of great references to argue that: "The marginal cost of education is being driven toward zero due to social media and innovative approaches to online learning like OpenCourseWare, Flat World Knowledge, and the University of the People. That’s because the nature of information is such that it can be created once at cost and distributed and consumed over and over again for free."

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Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 23, 2009

Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skeptical – Larry Dignan at ZDNet does a good analysis of the recent report by the Altimeter Group & Wetpaint. My take: while having a sound social strategy does not in and of itself promise success, in today's market every successful business must have a sound social strategy.
Seeking Semantics in Government « Shepherd’s Pi – Lewis Shepherd quickly disembowels yet another fluff article on the move to 2.0 (or 3.0?) technologies. He's spot on that the intelligence community is one of the leaders in the government pack on this.

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Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 21, 2009

Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources – Another nice summary of online education resources from Dana Oshiro at ReadWriteWeb.
Beyond Social Networking: Building Toward Learning Communities — THE Journal – Ruth Reynard post that "introduces the idea that social networking is only the beginning of a longer and more complex process of socially constructed learning and ultimately collaboration and knowledge building."

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Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 7, 2009

FREE — Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government – A nice collection of educational resources available for free from the Federal Government. It will be interesting to see how this and other resources (such as data.gov) continue to grow as the Feds try to become more open and transparent.
Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older. – Watching nech tech go mainstream. Remember whaen e-mail and AOL did the same thing? From the article: "If the iStrategyLabs numbers are correct, Facebook, simply put, is not a young site anymore. Most of the users (20,3 million, or 28.2% overall) on the site belong to the 35 – 54 age group. Compare that to the age group that was once Facebook’s bread and butter – the 18 – 24 group – which is now in third place with 18 million (25.1%) users, behind the 25 – 34 year old group, which makes for 25.2% of Facebook’s user base with 18.1 million users. The number of users aged 55 and over has grown from negligible 950,000 to 5.9 million in mere six months."

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