This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks. Towards a Definition The following definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences. PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). eLearning & Deliberative Moments. services. 2002). MORE >>

Bloglines : A Web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client. Blogpulse : A service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics, it analyzes and reports on daily trends in the blogosphere. pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact 26 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation by Pam Dyer on December 6, 2009 Share Are you listening? Do you know what people are saying about your brand? BoardTracker : A useful tool for scanning and tracking forums conversations. FriendFeed Search : Scans all FriendFeed activity. HowSociable? MORE >>

But Jay Baer did an interesting aggregation of his own blog posts this morning, based on what his readers liked best, so I’m copying that idea, with a twist. What I find most fascinating is they gave into the blogosphere and changed it back to the old logo, even though that group represents less than seven percent of their customer base. I had a brilliant idea for today’s post in the middle of the night, but between it being the middle of the night and Jack Bauer sleeping on my head (which is not comfortable), I’ve forgotten what it was. will beat you next year! MORE >>

The old model, which we pursued from 1994-2004, is focused on content and collection. -- the acquisition, organization & aggregation, storage and dissemination of content under organization-wide taxonomies using customized tools and containers, just-in-case it might be reusable. WHAT THE BLOGOSPHERE WANTS MORE OF. category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually. reading lists/aggregations of material on specific, leading-edge subjects that writers can use as resource material. November 2005. Oct Dec. MORE >>

Breakdown of the Blogosphere 31. link] bradgarland Thanks for aggregating all these, well done. The kudos should go to the talented, creative people who created them in the first place — I'm just the aggregator. pamorama marketing, life, social media Home About Bookshelf Links Contact 35 Great Social Media Infographics by Pam Dyer on March 3, 2010 Share Here’s a collection of terrific social media infographics that might come in handy. As you probably know, infographics are visual representations of information, data, or knowledge. to convey concepts. Salut! MORE >>