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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles

Tony Karrer

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. In the article she gives some scary statistics: Our recent study showed that 30 percent of US companies spent money on informal learning tools or services in 2010. Can you say future book deal? Properly d.

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

The New York Times recently featured a fascinating article by Andrew Martin and Thomas Lin that details the shift in thinking within the military that may soon take it to the forefront of virtual training. What’s more, they don’t just mean by saving money or time (although their games are doing that, too). They mean by saving lives.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Marsha March 9, 2011 at 3:32 pm # Hi Jon: I was impressed with this article because it touches on some learning information discussed in my training and development program here at Roosevelt University. Maybe some links to articles you have seen about best practices in using video as an effective informal learning technology?

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What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

In about a week, he has amassed more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and his catch phrases (“ winning ,” “ tiger blood ,” etc.) We all know that social media will be a major driver in the 2.0 have become some of the top trending topics on the site, repeated by thousands of people. Clearly, there’s something to be learned here.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Check out these links for more insight on the topic: [link] [link] [link] And in case you read through this entire article in the hopes of hearing the song by Simon & Garfunkel, and are now really upset, here you go: Blog this! Properly d. All Rights Reserved. Visit us at dashe.com