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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

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#SoMe for Trainers: Beating the Forgetting Curve This is the 9th stop of the Blog Book Tour for Jane Bozarth's new book, S ocial Media for Trainers. I taught EFL to Japanese learners much before the advent of Twitter or the popularity of Facebook climbed the charts.

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Revisiting My Learning Journey on Social Media

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I discovered the blogs of several of the people mentioned above and was amazed by the power of the platform – a free tool to share thoughts, ideas and get feedback and inputs. I started blogging—albeit very tentatively. It took me a while to realize that blogging is not about other people – unless you are blogging to market something.

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MOOCs in the Workplace and Heutagogy

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In this blog post, I am going to discuss why I think MOOCs are here to stay, and the impact they are likely to have on workplace learning and the way we learn. MOOCs--for all the debate, angst and confusion surrounding them--have changed the face of online education and learning for good. We can love it or hate it, but we can’t ignore it.

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"Working Out Loud": Using the Tools We Already Have

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Facebook : While the platform gained traction as a social networking site where individuals find and stay in touch with lost friends and far-flung family members, I see it increasingly being used as a learning and sharing platform by various groups including passionate photographers, wildlife lovers, travellers, artists and such.

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Micro-Learning: Its Role in Formal, Informal and Incidental Learning

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Whether it’s tweets from the Twitter feed, blog posts and articles, or the latest You Tube video and TED Talk, these essentially comprise nuggets and bytes of content in various forms that we pull from the environment and then string together to make sense and build a cohesive picture. and one can appreciate the varied usage of the form.

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The 21st Century Curator

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We are also curating whenwe choose what to share with our Facebook friends. However, aggregation can be infused with greater depth as described in IsContent Curation the New Black … manyof the world's top websites and blogs are largely curation-based. But I digress. But while useful, it is lower on the valuechain.

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Social Learning Cannot be a Bolt-On Strategy

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An organization cannot bolt on social learning just as it cannot bolt on a few Facebook and Twitter-like tools and call itself a social business. The following excerpt from his blog summarizes it beautifully: A Social Business isn't a company that just has a Facebook page and a Twitter account.