Social networking sites such as Facebook provide a way to meet both of these goals, however according to a survey  54% of U.S. employers Organizations cite many reasons for banning Facebook and other social networking platforms including company privacy, productivity, and network security.  Here’s By supporting the use of Facebook and other social networking sites we are basically telling our employees it is OK to talk about our business online. Instead many experts suggest that companies create a social networking policy.  MORE >>

This month’s Big Question in the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is ‘How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?’ Well one way to approach this issue is to step back from the technology and ask yourself whether bottom-up learning in general (which has always happened, but which social media facilitates) is appropriate for the target population? Tags: social networking BigQuestion How indeed? Bottom-up learning is managed by employees themselves. They will only have the motive if they are rewarded for effective performance. MORE >>

Twitter Academia Blogging eLearning Social Network University 2.0 Once people have found out I’ve been using Twitter for all of about 4 months now they think I’m an expert (I’m not, and do not profess to be) and keep asking me; what is it all about, then? Good question, and not one I’ve really been able to answer for myself, let alone answers for [.] Web 2.0 MORE >>

I followed the link and found myself entranced by Mike VanDervort’s Confronting Social Media at Work.  It’s a great blog post that warns HR professionals about the need to get ready for the social media invasion.  Those Those who left comments about the post asked “how do you communicate the importance of social media to a leadership group that has no concept of its relevance in their personal or professional lives?&#   I get this type of question all the time.  Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team. Social Media in Plain English. MORE >>

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. How are you measuring social learning? Social & network learning really falls into the OTJ learning, not formal. In chat, vivien disagreed: “I don’t agree that social learning is always downstream of training intervention&#. But maybe we can’t just shoehorn social learning into one part of the chart. This can be the social network. Improve design. MORE >>