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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

From the business perspective, however, networking isn’t only helpful, it is mandatory. Business networking not only brings new business and new talent, but it supports collaboration – whether it’s collaborating with internal team members or making connections outside of the organization. So how do you build your network?

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JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Not Everyone is a Social Customer by Paul on February 11, 2011 in Development Tools , customer service , social learning A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about the need to train your clients on the various methods of…training.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Can Games Transform the World? Games seem like a really cool way to add some fun to learning and seem to pose little or no risk to the learning outcome. To be effective the game must make work seem like play.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Make Learning An Experience. by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Discovered via Brent Schlenker’s Corporate eLearning and Development blog. Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. Why are they in this training session? Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? At first I couldn’t think whether I actually applied how training was delivered to these different types of learners. Each student selected the group they wanted to be in.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Temporary Staffing Revolution by Paul on December 28, 2010 in Temporary staffing A few weeks ago, I grabbed coffee with a long-time family friend that happens to be a training developer. I think it’s a tough question.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Who’s Building the Social Learning Roads? The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” They both do great work.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Hey, That’s Social Learning! Ive been creating training and e-Learning programs for over 20 years, serving as an instructional designer, writer, developer, and project manager. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Impact of Social Learning: Will You Be The First? Now let’s translate this to a business setting. Software training often follows a variant of the see one, do one, teach one model.

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MAY 18, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military by Jim on May 19, 2011 in Gaming Theory Think game-based training doesn’t have anything to offer your organization in the way of savings?

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MAY 4, 2011

technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. Go take a peek. Can you say future book deal?

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APRIL 5, 2011

In another post, Krigsman writes: Communications in [the context of ERP implementation] means explaining the business impact of technology decisions to a non-technical audience. Without a robust communication and training plan, employees are left wondering how their jobs will look in the future.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? Those of you that enjoyed the non-stop college basketball action, whether at home, at the games, or in Vegas, are trudging back to your offices.

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APRIL 28, 2011

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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MAY 11, 2011

My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? It’s not enough for people within functional areas (clusters) to connect.

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MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. Much scrambling ensues.

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MARCH 13, 2011

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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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Of course, the person “next to you” might just as often be consulted via email or other online tool, but it doesn’t change this fact: the amount of workplace learning done in formal training sessions is a tiny fraction of of the learning that takes place one-on-one, between coworkers. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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JANUARY 30, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Differing notions of how training should be developed have been analyzed and batted around their office for some time, whether for a new ERP system or a change in operational procedures.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Simply put, in most cases failed EHRs suffer from the same symptoms that are seen in countless other IT implementations: insufficient staff buy-in, insufficient training, and an ROI that is often slow to make itself apparent. Better patient outcomes, reduced redundancy, and a little extra cash from the government… Blog this!

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MAY 8, 2011

Maintaining the status quo is no longer sufficient if we, as learning and development professionals, want to stay relevant to the businesses we serve. It has been around for all of my 15+ years as an instructional designer and training developer, and goes back much further than that. We have to evolve, or be left behind.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

SMEs have a ton of work to do and generally keep their heads down until all work is done — defining requirements, documenting processes, testing, collaborating on training content, and training end-users. my spare time I read, play with my kiddos, and train with the Dashe & Thomson running team.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! Another similar (though paid less) group of thousands are the training developers whose jobs are to help others use the software once it’s working.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! We All Did.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

I haven’t read the book yet, but Jay Cross’ latest blog gave me a taste, and now that I’ve referenced the book in my own blog post, I feel obligated to follow through. I believe user adoption or training should be developed with the intent of creating a social epidemic, or should we say ‘workplace epidemic.’

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MARCH 7, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? My goal is to make sure that no matter the size of the project, each company that comes to us gets immediate, attentive, personal service.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Measuring Project Success: Thoughts for the Training Professional by Jim on April 24, 2011 in Project Management/Project Delivery When we think of the concept of “success,” it often seems relatively straightforward.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Freemium Three: Three Free Tools That Will Work Wonders For Your Next Training Project. What do you do? When this happened to us recently, we turned to Vanilla Forums to provide the answer.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

How will organizations get them to adopt new business processes, procedures, or software systems when necessary? This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog. We thought we could train them to do their jobs. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. So now, I resolve to promote interactive, “do-it” training whenever feasible.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom by Jon on March 21, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Where do the most innovate ideas in learning come from?

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