Here at the Sloan-C Emerging Tech Conference Professor George Otte described the process CUNY went through to establish a learning network, CUNY Academic Commons. Technically they chose a bricolage of best in show open source technology, blending WordPressMU with BuddyPress and MediaWiki, all linked through single sign-on.

It offers faculty and staff (soon to include students) a platform for sharing ideas, posting blogs and resources, and networking with user-created groups. CUNY just got it started in the past 6 months and have not put any money into it except for the web server it runs on. The delivery of the network has been broadly accepted for all sorts of purposes, most notably those NOT associated with CUNY's LMS.

Parting thoughts: "Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about."  - Cory Doctorow

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