F2F Event & Social Networks LEading to Richer Connections?
Via Stephen Downes blog. Should we consider using social networks to support or even facilitate training events / sessions / conferences? How many conferences or external meetings have you attended where you meet like minded individuals, take their details together with promises of future collaboration only to lose sight of them as day to day work and events take over? The posts suggests that social networks, particularly Facebook can help here as your contacts are always there in front of you when you log in. So there exists the possibility of continuing relationships with conference contacts and building up a group of highly connected experts for a particular field. Could be a goods way of providing continual support to one off training events / seminars.
I might raise this with the BLU conference organisers as an idea…
View initial post form Janet Clary’s blog (Web Link) and Stephen Downes comments (Web Link).
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