Recently I finished reading a copy of the book from authors Tony Brigham and Marcia Connor entitled, The New Social Learning. For an avid and staunch user of social media tools like me, there might not be a heck of a lot of revelations in the book, but for the person just exploring or getting more familiar with these tools, it serves as a tremendous resource.

The book’s main theme centers around the notion of learning and how social media applications are bringing collaboration and useful tools to Internet users worldwide. It’s not just classrooms being impacted by the social web, but companies large and small. People can tap into their social networks for a host of information and deploy cloud-based tools that change completely the way businesses and organizations operate and even communicate. Users aren’t tethered to one computer and organizations are now afforded a collective intellect that’s only a few mouseclicks away, and people can work with one another from points all over the globe.