NeuroGovernment

According to Forrester Research (thanks for the link from Read Write Web).  If you are responsible for government agency communications, you will want to look at Figure 1.  How is your agency’s social media strategy serving the various groups on that ladder?

David Armano of Logic+Emotion writes: “Stop looking for the next Twitter. Why? It’s simple—because the odds are you already have plenty of projects and ideas with proven potential that you need to improve on without worrying about the next thing you’ll start.“  Armano then goes on to list the four major tools that still have significant value: websites, blogs, intranets, and social community applications (Facebook, Ning, etc.).  It’s good advice because each of the tools bring different capabilities and assets to the overall communication infrastructure of an organization.  Better to have a full toolkit to choose from than just one tool to work with.

There are seemingly numerous applications for elearning and trying to craft an elearning system can be confusing.  Learning Conversations has a great guide for determining what applications to use.  I especially like the fact that the guide is aimed toward the learner and not driven by the technology.

But, I believe it only looks like a large number of applications.  Many of the applications are just variations of wikis, blogs, twitter, and FaceBook-type applications.  Where are the truly new applications that enhance the learning experience?  By focusing on the needs of the learners, I am sure that the new applications will arrive.

I understand Twitter technically but I was never sold on what was so revolutionary about it.  Calling it microblogging when it was really just a pale reflection of blogging never really seemed to explain it.  I’ve used it for events but every since I put the Facebook app on my phone, I use that instead.

Apparently, others are questioning Twitter’s utility because its traffic has stalled for the last four months and is declining.