It’s probably no surprise that I’m interested in the idea of using social networking to bring learning out of the classroom and into the everyday work environment.

I recently read an article from the bozarthzone on specific tools that can be used to do just that. I think it is wonderful that this round-up of tools is now searchable in one place. I think for folks who are thinking about using Web 2.0 the idea of searching hither and yon may be daunting and this is a step towards solving that issue.

I mentioned several weeks (or is it months?) ago I mailed a SME an article about a company that decided to use social networking to take learning back to the desks of their employees. I haven’t heard if the SME is considering this idea or not, but I still believe it would be a great tool for these new positions that are being created across the state. Folks need to talk to each other; they need sounding boards.

I think what I’d like to find next is a way to “sell” the idea of social networking to a group of people who consider blogs and other tools to be the milieu of slack-jawed yokels typing “First” or worse on YouTube sites.

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