I greatly appreciate your PLN wiki and will be using it to describe to some fellow teachers how to build and maintain a PLN. I especially like the graphic that illustrates the idea that we can begin this process from anywhere.

In the same attribution vein as your post, is this graphic released under a share-alike license? I’d like to use it in a public Google presentation.

Thanks again for producing some very valuable content!

When I wrote this post this morning I should have Google to find the original location – here is where I believe it was adapted from — http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/twitter.pdf

Your words in the podcast were “Kind of my first forays with Twitter and like many people when I first heard about it and saw it and thought “That is really the stupidest thing I ever heard about. Wwhy would anybody do that?” And it’s easy and you see a lot of people do that to make those judgements from the outside without being there with the technology. There is a confusion we make as well at confusing the capability and potential of a technology with actually the content that is being produced on it. So yeah a lot of people do silly inane things on there, but when you look at the communication aspects of it, it’s ability to interface with the Web, with your mobile phone and kind of having this almost near real time connectivity, to be open to the possibilities about what this stuff can do and give up this notion that we can quote unquote be the ‘experts’ in this stuff, and we can’t. We need a network of experts.”

And Alan I am more than happy to add acknowledgment into both this post and onto the wiki.