Many Learners, Employers, and Learning Providers use social media. Each time they log into Facebook, they see a clutter of links, videos, and photographs their "friends" have either posted or liked.

The given filters from Facebook do not satisfy all its users. For a better and cleaner filtering interface Facebook users should pay a visit to PostPost.

PostPost is their personal social newspaper. It compiles all the links, videos and pictures your friends post on Facebook into a real-ti...

Yet another reason, perhaps, that YouTube and Facebook shouldn't be blocked!

The YouTube Social website lets practitioners and remote learners watch YouTube in a truly collective way.

On the YouTube Social website...

• practitioners can create "viewing parties" by merely adding the word "social" to any YouTube URL that they want to watch with their learners...
• Upon doing so, a new URL is generated, and...
• this URL can then be sent to invite learners to the "viewing party".

When invited le...

Many learners use Facebook and I'm sure as Learning Providers, every effort is made to ensure they know how to keep safe.

Not so long ago Facebook was subjected to a lot of press over privacy issues and many, engaged in education, still harbor "anti-facebook" feelings.  These and many others may find a social site like Buddify worth a closer look, and even try it out.

Buddify is a new social network which places a lot of emphasis on giving users full control over their privacy, to the ...

Would you like to collaborate and share Office documents, PowerPoint presentations, and more with your learners and colleagues?

Well I'm using the new Office Web Apps with my Facebook friends via http://Docs.com.

I included the new Office Web Apps on SkyDrive in a recent blog, and was excited over the features it had but wished it could do more. One major problem, with the Office Web Apps is that few learners and/or colleagues use Windows Live SkyDrive on a daily basis. This means that...

With VanityVid's Browser plugin, those who use Facebook and or Twitter can make their profile picture come alive.

Provide short video clips/thoughts for the day etc., where visitors will, with the FireFox Browser add-in, also be able to see you move and hear you talking, and get a better feeling of who you are and what you're like.

The add-on is available from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/162157/ (this will allow you to see those Facebook and Twitter users who use Van...