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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Smarter Uses for Social Media

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One of those social media users is bound to be in your industry so it’s time to get smarter about how we use social media to connect to followers, members, prospects, thought leaders, and board members. Recently, Maddie Grant at Social Fish presented on the topic of engagement in online communities.

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

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A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. If we apply the ‘weak ties’ theory, we might be able to spot people in our network who are both: a) Loosely tied to us (i.e., Blog this!

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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by Paul on April 20, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , social learning Over the last few months I’ve discussed with my brother, a professor at Bethel University here in Minneapolis, how to incorporate social media into his classes. I’m merely attempting to show how confusing this new world of social media is.

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Social media extremism

E-Learning Provocateur

Since I wrote my article last week about critical theory , I have been more attuned to the messages being propagated by my peers. For example, some of them have been blogging and tweeting about the role of social media in driving the pro-democracy protests in Egypt. Good centuries-old social networking. in world affairs.

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

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by Paul on April 20, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Informal Learning , social learning Over the last few months I’ve discussed with my brother, a professor at Bethel University here in Minneapolis, how to incorporate social media into his classes. I’m merely attempting to show how confusing this new world of social media is.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Last week I had a phone conversation with Ian Huckabee of WeeJee Media. It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning.