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Learning Tools Directory 2010
Now completely overhauled, updated and reorganised into 12 categories of tools
for formal, personal, group and organisational learning

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SOCIAL NETWORKING & COLLABORATION SPACES
PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
BROWSERS, PLAYERS & READERS
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Top Tools for Learning
Here are the Top 100 Tools lists for the last 3 years compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of learning professionals worldwide

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Top 10 Tools Lists of Learning Professionals worldwide

Top 10 Tools Lists 2009

Alpha list of contributors 2007-2009


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LEARNING TOOLS DIRECTORY 2010
 Social Networking & Collaboration Spaces

TOOLS: A-K  |  Tools L - Z

These social media platforms include public social networks as well as tools to create private collaborative, social spaces for groups or communities, as well as enterprise collaboration systems (with multiple groupsites)

Key:
N=Public social networks, P=private/closed social networks
G=group/community spaces  E=Enterprise (intranet) collaboration
Free tools are shaded grey
= a Top 100 Tool, click on the star for more info
A N P G E
12sprints
Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative decision-making brings together:
£, Hosted
    x  
5pm
central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more
£, Free Trial, Hosted
  x x  
ActionThis
Simple, web-based team management solution that helps teams and small businesses get things done on time, using the tools they use every day
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x  
activeCollab
project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network. Work with your team, clients and contractors in an easy to use environment, while keeping full control over your data
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x  
Alfresco
simplifies capturing, sharing and retrieval of information across virtual teams. Team or project members can rapidly find relevant content, experts, look at past or similar projects and keep on top of any relevant changes to make them more efficient
Free, Open Source, Download or £, Free Trial, Hosted
    x x
AROUNDMe
Create multiple collaborative group, webspace, community or social networking websites. Each group can create a multiple page collaborative web site. They get social tools such as a guestbook (a wall), a group blog, a forum and a wiki which they can drop into web pages
Free, Download
  x x x
B N P G E
Backpack
Share information with your team. Keep your documents, discussions, and schedules in one place all the time
£, Free trial, Hosted
    x  
Basecamp
Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration. Basecamp brings people together.
£, Free trial, Hosted
    x  
Box
Create an online workspace where you can share project files, add comments, assign tasks, start discussions or create new content
£, Hosted
    x x
Buddypress
BuddyPress will extend WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation
Free, Open Source, Download
  x x x
C N P G E
Central Desktop
Social Technology Platform provides a complete solution for businesses to collaborate, manage projects and connect their people
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x x
Collaber
a multi platform project management collaboration software for your teams to share files, folders, events, tasks. Connect and Communicate with your people online or offline in a safe and secure environment
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x x
Collanos Workplace
You can overcome information clutter by having a single space to share, interact and collaborate with your team
Free, Download
    x  
CoMindwork
improves the knowledge work productivity in projects performed by workgroups in professional service firms and by divisions within enterprises
Free/£, Hosted/Download
    x x
Community Center 3.0
Enterprise-class social network and community platform. It brings together community applications, management tools, and systems infrastructure to deliver the best mix of user features, administration, management, reporting and scalability—all flexible enough to tailor to your community requirements
£, Hosted
  x x x
ConnectBeam
Social Activity Platform and Applications enables enterprises to connect knowledge workers and their new Enterprise 2.0 and collaboration tools with traditional Enterprise Search and information repositories
£, Hosted
      X
Convos
Create useful and flexible online groups for your members, colleagues, and partners. Maximize online interaction with group collaboration features. Use Convos groups to serve as an intranet, project team workspace, or member hub.
Free/£, Hosted
    x x
CrowdVine
Social networking site that lets anyone create and customize a social network for their organization, event, or alumni group
£, Hosted/Installed
  X X X
CubeTree
On demand enterprise collaboration suite
Free/£, Hosted
  x x x
Cyn.in
helps teams to communicate faster and build collaborative knowledge by sharing and discussing various forms of digital content within a secure, unified application. It combines the capabilities of collaboration tools like wikis, social networks, blogs, file sharing repositories, micro blogs, discussion boards and other communication applications into one secure enterprise platform.
Free, Open Source, Download or £, Hosted
  x x x
D N P G E
Dekks
kick-start massive collaboration and tap the informal knowledge network that exists in your company
£, Free Trial, Hosted/Download
  x   x
DeskAway
Easy to use online project collaboration software for virtual, distributed & global teams. Built with social features and a growing community
£, Free Trial, Download
    x x
Dolphin
All-in-one software package for creating your own social network.  All modules, players, chat, messenger and apps are included
Free, Open Source, Download
  x x x
Drupal
supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.
Free, Open Source, Download
      x
DynaPortal
A growing collection of over 50 integrated Web applications that can be custom configured to produce a unique turnkey portal site. DynaPortal powers all types of sites, from industry leading niche market community portals to small corporate websites, intranets, or extranets - and everything in between
£, Installed
    x x
E N P G E
Easy Projects.net
a web-based project management tool, making team collaboration hassle free and straightforward
Free/£, Hosted/Download
    x  
Elgg
Social engine with a range of core and 3rd party tools to build social network, social learning environment with personal and group spaces
Free, Open Source, Download
  x x x
eLoops
Integrated collaboration software includes project management, calendar, data backup, document management, and more
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x x
Emerald InTouch
A personal web space and hosting service that supports learning, networking and collaboration.  InTouch places a range of collaborative technologies and networking tools in one simple, easy-to-use, secure space
Free, Hosted
x   x  
Enginey
Easy to use social network framework that is easy to customize and deploy as your own powerful and feature packed social media site
Free, Download
  x x  
eRoom hosting
Share documents, create and manage project plans, discuss issues and make decisions, manage group calendars
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x  
F N P G E
Facebook
A huge public social network with over 350 million members.  Private groups can be set up for different activities
Free, Hosted
x   x  
G N P G E
Google Apps
A powerful set of communication and collaboration tools branded for the organisation
£, Hosted
    x x
Google Friend Connect
lets you easily add robust, social features to your website.
Free, Add code
x   x  
Google Groups
Discuss online with others in your group
Free, Hosted
    x  
Google Wave
an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation
and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
Free, Hosted
x   x  
Grouply
Makeover you existing Google or Yahoo groups, or create a new group
Free, Hosted
  x x  
Grou.ps
Platform for social groups to get together. Use it for any purpose. Choose your template and pick all the modules that you want (wiki, blogs, photos, links etc
Free, Open Source/Download or Hosted
  x x  
Groupsite
a powerful social collaboration tool for ordinary people in everyday groups
Free/£, Hosted
  x x x
H N P G E
Huddle
simple, secure online workspaces containing powerful project and collaboration tools
Free/£, Hosted
    x  
HyperOffice
Online collaboration solutions include professional email, document management, project management, shared calendaring, and contact management tools.
£, Free Trial, Hosted
    x  
I N P G E
iGrOOps
web-based information sharing, communication, collaboration, and marketing tool for groups of any size
Free/£, Hosted
  x x  
injoos
Organizes both content and collaboration technologies around team-based goals and enables contextual use of these technologies. Teams can quickly start working on projects and collaborate with friendly tools to achieve their goals while creating valuable knowledge assets
Free/£, Hosted
  x x  
J N P G E
Jinity
Start your own web site where visitors can meet, communicate and share media. Provide features like blogs, videos, forums and contact ads for your visitors.
Free, Hosted
  x x  
Jive SBS
Next-generation enterprise communication and collaboration platform integrates the most powerful enterprise 2.0 features of collaboration software, community software and social networking software to extend social capabilities across every level of your enterprise
£, Installed
  x   x
JoinCube
Let your team collaborate using your own internal social network, create groups and send private messages. Create todo's, meetings, simple and complex tasks, assign them and keep the track.
£, Free Trial, Hosted
  x x x
K N P G E
Kerika
Share your ideas, documents and projects with friends and colleagues around the world using Graphical Wikis: a unique approach to team collaboration that makes it easy for everyone to understand what your project is all about.
Free, Download
    x  
KickApps
Build your own community with social networking and photo & video sharing; create your own widgets, custom video players and much more.
£, Free Trial, Hosted
  x x  
Kwiqq Open
Customisable out-of-the box social networking product
£, Hosted/Installed
  x x x

Tools L - Z

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