Sparks in Google+ Social Networking Environment

July 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

Keep your team up-to-date with Sparks

Another great feature that differentiates Google+ from Facebook is Sparks. It lets users define an interest (robotics, for example), and then trawls the web looking for articles related to that interest, making it easy for users to find relevant articles to share. This could be useful in the workplace for research or keeping abreast of industry news, for example, helping users to stay up-to-date with topics of interest to them and their team, and then easily share and discuss any particularly interesting bits of information.

via gigaom.com

This is a neat idea, so I’m checking this out — especially for its usefulness in extending the classroom into the online arena.

Keep your team up-to-date with Sparks Another great feature that differentiates Google+ from Facebook is Sparks. It lets users define an interest (robotics, for example), and then trawls the web looking for articles related to that interest, making it easy for users to find relevant articles to shar …

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Learning Leader Tech Ed Advocate Empassioned Educator Perpetual Student Professional Learner Chief Learning Officer Tonya Thomas is an instructional design, training and multimedia communications professional, with nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare, information systems, instructional design and training, web and creative design, internal and external marketing, PR and communications, social media, service excellence, leadership development and non-profit operations management. She is currently an instructional designer and training specialist with the EDQM Team within the Revenue Cycle Department at University of Michigan Health System; member of U-M Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) and the U-M Voices of the Staff Technology and Best Practices Team; an adult education instructor and public speaker at Schoolcraft College, Livonia; principal and Chief Learning Officer of Kappa Beta Technology & Instruction; author of the Learning Leader Blog (www.learningleader.org,) an emerging technologies resource for 21st century educators; a single working mom living in the Canton area with her two teen daughters, two cats and several Mac computers.

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