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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. After reading this, I started thinking about this new LinkedIn utility I recently installed. These tools give us a way to connect with people faster and more easily than ever before. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

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

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Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

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. Karen O’Leonard from Bersin & Associates wrote an article last week entitled Corporate Spending on Social Learning. What’s it going to take for you to follow their lead?

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

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