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My Professional Learner’s Toolkit

Clark Quinn

Favorite browser and search engine : I use Safari and Google, by default. A number of news and curation tools : I use Google News and the ABC (Oz, not US) in my browser, and the BBC and News apps on my iDevices. A range of social networks : I use LinkedIn professionally, as well as Slack. Qualtrics).

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5 Companies Likely to Buy Coursera

LearnDash

Similar to Facebook, I think we can reasonably expect the user growth to incrementally increase as the “wannabees” drop out or are gobbled up by competitors. Nothing is really “free” (just look at modern day Facebook or YouTube as an example). Google - Let’s start with the most obvious.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Social Network. The members maintain profiles describing themselves and what they are currently doing, interact with each other using network tools and create links with other members of the social network. Google Docs. Apple University. Document Sharing and Document Management.

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iTextbooks? - Apple Gets in on the Digital Textbook Revolution

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

As long as I'm posting about digital textbooks, I might as well mention Apple. Rumors are swirling around the Apple invite that has gone out to press saying, “Join us for an education announcement in the Big Apple.” According to the Mashable article Apple is partnering with textbook publishers. It all makes sense to me.

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Employer Brand Matters for Recruiting Quality Employees

KnowledgeCity

On top of that, LinkedIn reports that a strong employer brand can reduce your cost-per-hire by as much as 50 percent. People don’t clamor to sign on with brand powerhouses like Google, Apple and Facebook simply because they’re passionate about search engines, social networking or minimalist smartphone design.

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4 Implications of Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn

CommLab India

Microsoft’s recent acquisition of LinkedIn has created ripples in the world of technology. I believe the deal between Microsoft and LinkedIn could have 4 major implications for the corporate world. The purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft could alter the shape of the search engine advertising market. billion USD.

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JIVE's clearspace takes social networking behind the firewall

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

USAToday recently said that "Jive Software wants to be the Apple Computer of corporate social networks." The best way to try to describe it may be to say it's like a combination of Facebook, Google Docs, Netvibes/Pageflakes, Meebo and a little bit of Basecamp - for the enterprise.