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Making connections

Learning with e's

Manuel Castells (2012) remarked on the autonomous nature of social media, and how ideas and other content can be amplified across vast networks, reaching huge audiences in seconds. Simply connecting into the appropriate community of practice is enough to assuage any feelings of loneliness. References Castells, M. Jenkins, H.

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On Aer

Learning with e's

Ahead of my keynote speech at the CESI 2012 conference in Portlaiose, this weekend, I did an interview for Dublin City FM 103.2. I spent two great days in Ireland this weekend, and would like to thank my hosts at the Computer Education Society of Ireland for inviting me. We also touched on youth culture, txt speak and digital literacies.

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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business

Jane Hart

A Social Business isn’t just a company that has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. A Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both internally and externally.”. Community management. Now, let’s be clear about what a social business is.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Situated learning (learning within context in a community of practice) grows thanks to augmented mobile reality. Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. My belief is that we'll hear a lot about it in 2011, but that by mid 2012 the focus will change to more actionable information related to doing.

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Clark Quinn – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Use Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Plus, and LinkedIn. It’s very important to have a community of practice that transcends your own organization and reaches out to the broader community. Clark: My answer is like the lottery advertisements: “you’ve got to be in it to win it”. How do you look at this honorable achievement?

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CLARK QUINN – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Use Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Plus, and LinkedIn. It’s very important to have a community of practice that transcends your own organization and reaches out to the broader community. Clark: My answer is like the lottery advertisements: “you’ve got to be in it to win it”. How do you look at this honorable achievement?

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How to Become a Learning Organization (An Interview with Michelle Ockers)

Convergence Training

They had 120 people from 17 different technology companies come in…they had people from Facebook, from Amazon, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, SnapChat. I think they started the work in 2012 and it took three years for them to do this piece of work. So, for example, Maintenance Planners was one community we set up.