8 Services to Start Your Learnstream Flowing
There are many services that you could include in your learnstream. Here’s a post to get you started on some of the basic services to consider for your learnstream. I listed a couple of options for most services (my primary is listed 1st)).
Note: Try selecting a consistent name across services, if possible. You can check your username for many social services at once by using name.chk or knowem.
Basic Learnstream Services
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Service/Tool |
Purpose is to… |
To Get Started… |
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Delicious or |
save and share bookmarks |
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Blog-lite |
Posterous or |
easily create blog posts or share other web content on your site |
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Contacts |
LinkedIn or |
create and maintain business and industry relationships |
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connect and share with friends and colleagues |
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communicate and share using short messages |
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Flickr or
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store and share photos or other items converted to an image (e.g., diagrams, charts) |
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read many sites and pages from 1 location |
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Bit.ly or |
reduce the size of a url to make it easier to share and view |
If you’re not sure where to begin, here’s a suggested order:
1. LinkedIn
2. Delicious
3. Google Reader
4. Twitter
5. Bit.ly
6. Flickr
7. Facebook
8. Posterous
What did I miss? Was this too much? If you were helping someone set up their learnstream, what else would you include to get them started?
