The rise of social media A quick Google Trends comparision across elearning and social media sees the rise of social media traffic in recent years. Jane Hart has written and spoken extensively about the importance of bringing social media into the workplace. As Learning and Development professionals, how do you supplement your elearning modules with social media? While this gives you the power of social interaction and group think it takes away the pressure of having to do everything within your elearning tool. MORE >>

And then there’s FriendFeed that allows you to consolidate all your social activity and push that on Facebook and other social media sites. If your social network across different social media services looks like below, then posting the same update on different services makes sense. However, if your social network looks like the one below, you are bombarding your connections with the same update on all networks. My rule of thumb – limit convergences of updates on different social media services irrespective of the overlaps of your connections. MORE >>

Social media is not a noun (media) accompanied by an adjective (social). In fact, as long as we think of it that way social media can only fail to achieve what the thought leaders who advocate its use believe it capable of doing. Social media is, in fact, a compound noun. social business design social media Neither term is sufficent to describe what is done by those using it unless we consider it as part of the other. MORE >>

The post highlights in a very straightforward, and therefore hard-hitting, terms the values and commitments one must bring in when engaging with social media. Two statements that leapt out and struck a chord with me: “Social media is your own child and once you are committed to it, you cannot stop loving it.” It’s the same with social media too. Social media (the organic mass of thinking, living, breathing human beings) will catch you and make you an outcast. Here are a few unwritten codes of conduct that rules the world of social media. MORE >>

It is an application that builds on the result of social media applications that all of us help build together. Tags: multimedia social media mobile learning During the latest mobile learning conferences, I was frequently surprised by the surplus of mobile learning possibilities. One of which is that the user would use her/his mobile phone, not just to capture the environment (whether it is audio, video, picture), but also to add to the reality s/he is experiencing. In the coming weeks I will be posting some of these reality enhancing mobile solutions. MORE >>