Just like Jon Mell describes less use of email by incorporating IM into email (placing it in the same spot where you create a new email)…what I would like to see at the end of an Office Communicator Live Meeting, is to be able to spin this real-time (synchronous) ad-hoc group into an asynchronous ad-hoc group using a social network and group tool. The other day when I posted on social networks and ad-hoc groups , I mentioned these online tools need to mirror both our offline behaviour, and our online real-time behaviour. I set the scenario that at work there may be a task or

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One trend I’m noticing with my clients is a preference for synchronous online interactions, from quick Skype calls to organized web meetings using tools that allow desktop sharing, white boards and even video. (I Even across diverse time zones, there is more synchronous. More synchronous? Flickr Creative Commons image from James Cridland I

Community Heartbeats - when synchronous interactions matter  That’s where synchronous events can help. What are synchronous events? Synchronous Synchronous online events are when some or all of the learners are online at the same time and interacting using tools such as Voice over IP (VoIP), telephone bridge lines, chat rooms, web meetings and instant messenger tools - This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I

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It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  Focus attention: Synchronous events can provide a heartbeat for an ongoing community, group or network. See more synchronous facilitation examples here . Leigh Blackall Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.

For synchronous engagements, consider 7-10 minute chunks in your plan. Alternate synchronous with asynchronous as a way to keep the “heartbeat” of a group going. For example in a three week online workshop I like a  minimum of one synchronous telecon interspersed with asynchronous activity. Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  http://forpd.ucf.edu contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues.

Within an enterprise, any type of "Twitter" system will be linked to directory systems in much the same way as e-mail and instant messaging systems are linked via address book synchronization techniques. Yes, someone could come along with a synchronization model but that's neither here nor there right now. Some good points in this post from Adina Levin (Socialtext). For the most part I agree but we're still in the phase were vendors are hyping the benefits and not being transparent regarding some of the "non-fun" aspects of making these systems acceptable for large enterprise

synchronization of read/unread marks, de-duping of redundant feed items, etc). The article below is interesting in that it does call out a dark truth - enterprise adoption of feed syndication tools has been lacking. However, However, the article disappoints because it gives too much credit to feed readers as the reason. I

Apache HAMA: An Introduction to Bulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop Apache HAMA: An Introduction toBulk Synchronization Parallel on Hadoop Back in June, I posted some information on social graph engines triggered by my interest in Google Pregel. I still expect this area of social analytics