Jane Hart wrote an excellent post, Social Learning is Not a New Training Trend. This is a post that truly and succinctly outlines the differences between the traditional workplace and the new workplace learning. To me traditional learning absolutely has a crucial role, but often isn’t the only way, or in fact, the primarily way we learn. From the dawn of time, people have always learned all the time – from their parents, , grandparents, coaches, neighbors, friends, cousins, (ok I’ll stop there). To stay consistent with her title, the approach is not new. MORE >>

Harold Jache recently provided another thought provoking post, Informal learning, the 95% solution. His premise is that knowledge workers spend at most about 5% of their time in formal training so learning should be focused on more than formal learning and extend to the other 95% of the work time. Harold writes that training departments traditionally have been directed to control organizational learning. It was part of a top-down model that also “compartmentalized work and ensured that only managers were allowed to make decisions. MORE >>

Many organizations have difficulty developing the required business justification for the acquisition and implementation of social business software. Social business software is designed to support the interactions between people in the organization, as well as interactions with customers and business partners. There are great, but varied applications, each with tremendous benefits. In many cases the qualitative items are more important to "C" level than the quantitative ones. But they are surveys, as opposed to measured results. MORE >>

Oscar Berg closed the end of 2011 with a useful summary post of the thoughts he had expressed through his blog in 2011. wrote about one of these posts in April (see Social Business Software’s Contributions to Enterprise Collaboration ) and it is nice to see him extending that conversation in this summary. Like his prior post it is full of quotable phases such as the comment that one of the core missions of social business software is, “to connect people with other people, tasks and information. MORE >>

This post is an extension of the first post in this series, top Five Tips for getting reuse from your LCMS, they are similar but with a different starting point and different perspective. In both cases, you need to think about how to objectify your course materials. You should read the other before starting this post if you have not, as many of those lessons are applicable here. I'll wait. Are you back? Great, we'll get started. Many of the principles about designing for single-source are similar to designing for reusability. 1. MORE >>