Dave Pollard has put together a useful list of tools for connecting with others, collaborating, and sharing knowledge. The impact of technological developments are often not obvious when standing in the stream. The odd swim to the river bank to look at what has happened is important. The progressive development of social technologies (and the affordances created as a result) are starting to solidify around common themes...a critical development in moving these tools beyond first adopters. In educational conferences, we've moved beyond trying to describe blogs/wikis/social tools...and now spend much of our time discussing impact and implementation. Social Networking in Business: An Update: "Social Networking Applications (SNAs) are tools and technologies that make it easier to identify, meet, connect, share information and collaborate with other, appropriate people. They can help you discover (or rediscover) and locate the right people, just in time, build "know-who" maps and directories of expertise, invite and permission people to join networks, connect (real-time synchronously or asynchronously) with various people using various appropriate communication media, manage relationships across those media, and collaborate and share content with people in your networks."
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