The winster site may not be famous (yet) but it has provided isolated people with meaningful connections through cooperative games.

Amplify’d from r.smartbrief.com

Winster helps isolated people get connected through gaming Social-gaming platform Winster, which focuses on fostering trust rather than competition between players, is building a significant following by targeting older Web users and residents of sparsely populated regions of the U.S. The site's business model focuses on helping geographically or socially isolated people to forge friendships -- and while the service is only intermittently profitable, co-founder Michelle Kaplan says investors are starting to take note. "It's going to be a huge market. I think it'll become an area of interest down the road, and we'll get more respect," Kaplan says. San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) (free registration) (12/22) Read more at r.smartbrief.com

Wayne Turmel has some unique advice on using social media to listen rather than talk. Reminds me of my amp leadership as social media

Wayne also does some great work in live online training http://www.greatwebmeetings.com

Amplify’d from www.bnet.com

With all the Twittering, Yammering, Foursquaring and all the other social media going on (the word I’ve coined is tweetfacelinkblogging, patent pending) it would seem that leaders have no shortage of ways to get their message out. That’s great, says one leadership expert, but it misses the point. The real advantage of social media to a leader is the ability to listen. Read more at www.bnet.com

This is a great post from Tanveer Naseer on the relationship of social media and "leadership". l tend to go with the verb "lead". Here is my paraphrase of Charlene's quote on social media:

"Leading is about giving up control and yet remaining in command."

Thanks @TanveerNaseer for an insightful post.

Amplify’d from www.tanveernaseer.com

Charlene Li, the founder of Altimeter Group and author of the book “Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform The Way You Lead”, gave a presentation on developing effective social media strategies during which she made the following comment about how businesses should approach social media: Social media is about giving up control yet remaining in command.” Upon reading this quote, I couldn’t help but notice that in addition to being an accurate assessment of social media, this statement can also be easily applied to the field of leadership. To help illustrate this connection, let’s look at two examples of social media blunders made by companies this year, and what these mistakes can teach us about effective leadership. Read more at www.tanveernaseer.com

--simple job aids when the content is too unstable for a more elaborate production.
--training workbooks
--game instructions
--manifestos (Thomas Paine would have liked this)

A “pliego” is a simple sheet of paper that once folded turns into a microbook (a real pocket-size one, indeed). It only needs a printer, a little do-it-yourself and an average 10 minutes for reading it.

HowTo pliego from pliegos on Vimeo.

Good how to videos of tools.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

Even when people say they want to incorporate social media, they don’t always know the best ways to do so. It’s especially daunting when those efforts can affect the education of your students. To help, we’ve collected seven of the the best classroom tools for incorporating social media into your lesson plans. Read more at mashable.com