This is an important question in the educational mashup of content and conversations :How to interconnect the mesh together: “How are all of these social media systems gonna connect to each other?”
I think our learners are at a similar stage. Most of them have blogs, wikis, myspace, friendster, MSN accounts. Now we ask them to use WebCT. Why? Why not find a way to get our stuff into their spaces? How often do they have to learn a new tool? Our thinking is too limited in this area. The data and capacity for interactions needs to be connected in ways that allows users control.