Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

The 148 companies who responded were asked the same detailed questions concerning their usage and measurement of social media that were asked of the Inc. Questions probed the familiarity of respondents with six prominent social media (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis).

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2010

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. Social Networking: The Future. Where is social networking headed next? The Top 50 Leadership Blogs Of 201 0. Read it here.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Various elearning development companies are integrating the popular social media services like Twitter, YouTube etc. A couple of months back, the Adobe Captivate blog demonstrated a twitter widget that can be integrated within a Captivate Flash output to send a tweet (as questions/suggestions/comments etc.)

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version: [link] Access all our podcasts here: [link] Connect with Dr. Keith Keating Email: Keith.Keating@onearchwell.com LinkedIn: [link] The post Evolving from Order Taker to Trusted Learning Advisor with Dr. Keith Keating first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2012

So we thought it would be interesting take a journey down our blog for some of the most popular and noteworthy posts of 2011. We have pulled these up based on social signals (views, comments, twitter and more). So without much ado, here are Top 50 eLearning Posts of 2011 from our blog as determined by you, our readers.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 6, 2012

With our increasing focus on Game Based Learning, each week sees us sharing interesting articles and resources about Game Based Learning on varied social networking platforms. This article from the MindShift Blog underscores the importance of play in learning. Play is an active process that reshapes our rigid views of the world.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

MICRO-BLOGGING: Check if your LMS offers a Micro-blogging feature. The micro-blogging feature is a great way to build a network that can be used for varied types of learning. Twitter is a fast growing and influential social networking service that is being leveraged as a great learning tool.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

As has been discussed endlessly on our blog before, the future of learning is mobile. Social networking booms as individuals use their devices to connect with each other. Learning across employees and through the organization benefits through the growth and development of social network driven by mobile devices.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Delicious – social bookmarking tool. Wordpress – blogging tool. Facebook – social networking site. Some observations: The top 10 is like a who’s who of social and informal learning tools. The complete list has a very strong bias towards social tools. Skype – instant messaging and VoIP call tool.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The system is geared to offer the human face required for social interactions. Users can build an elaborate social network by adding individuals in the enterprise they interact with regularly as friends. Recently, Twitter has emerged as a fast growing and influential social networking service.

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Upside Learning

MAY 3, 2023

In this blog, we will explore what it means to be a mindful project manager and a few tips on how to become one. Topic inspiration is from a LinkedIn course Mindfulness: A Critical Skill for Project Managers by Ruth Pearce The post Mindfulness: A Critical Skill for Project Managers first appeared on The Upside Learning Blog.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

from various spheres of learning and technology on varied social networking platforms. While many of you follow us on Twitter and Facebook , we do realize that keeping a track of all the tweets/ posts, given the high proliferation and dynamic nature of information, is difficult, to say the least. Read it here. Read it here.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Students also regularly use digital media like blogs, Skype and a custom-made social networking site to create projects and share their ideas with their classmates.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. This article on the Brandon Hall blog mentions new statistics on this new technology. Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook Could Fragment Web. Read it here.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Using phones, they browse the web, connect on social networks, share photos and videos, make purchases, play games, and keep track of what they care for through dedicated apps. Mobiles are a way of life and are catching up in the learning domain as well. Your workforce uses mobiles for more than just phone calls or text messages.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2009

How much time do you spend and how did you find time for all the relatively newer things like reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.? I spend between 3-5 hours on new things, reading blogs, blogging, twitter, social networks. I like to think of it as system maintenance and upgrades.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Celebrating Over 15,000 LinkedIn Followers Amidst our year’s highs, we reached an incredible milestone—15,000 followers on LinkedIn! We owe this success to our fantastic LinkedIn family and our fabulous marketing team, the wizards behind our brand’s magic.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2009

How much time do you spend and how did you find time for all the relatively newer things like reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.? I spend between 3-5 hours on new things, reading blogs, blogging, twitter, social networks. I like to think of it as system maintenance and upgrades.

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Upside Learning

MAY 28, 2009

There’s more talk about Digital natives going around; Jeremiah Owyang blogged from the Corporate Social Networking Conference in Amsterdam. Time and again, this talk about Digital natives and the millenials comes up, and there still isn’t much agreement about the key issues at hand.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 2, 2011

It’s been a trying time of the year; erratic schedules, vacations and finding time to introspect has meant I’ve not blogged over the last month or so. As I get back on track, it’s time to start blogging in earnest again. Lifestreaming – Persistent and Always On – Twitter, facebook are only the first wave of lifestreaming.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2011

For administrators/managers robust analysis tools for social network and generated content analysis will provide a truer picture of the ‘knowledge state’ of the organization than an LMS could ever hope to represent. Learning is about content and bums-in-seats?

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I trawled through multiple blogs. I participated in discussion forums on Linkedin. That’s primarily because it has the potential to change the paradigms of workplace learning by tracking and recording learner data outside the traditional elearning environment. How did I learn about the Tin Can API.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 30, 2010

A few things that I really like about the Dare2Share platform are: - There is a tag cloud presented in the right panel (similar to what you see on this blog) which helps users select their areas of interest. Goes on to show that the fears of people posting inappropriate content on social networks are really baseless.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 29, 2010

The LMS also includes a WordPress blog that learners can post to, and postings can be viewed both from within and outside the system. Further, while the system’s wiki resembles Wikipedia, the discussions section looks similar to LinkedIn group discussion pages. They also can see their friends’ tweets from outside the system.

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Upside Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

She lists four key additions to PLE that can enhance user experience, which, in brief, include: An interface that can be manipulated to meet end-user’s needs and preferences – like freedom to bring blog, YouTube, Twitter feeds, LinkedIn forms at one place for viewing – which they can utilize to develop and hone expertise anytime, anyplace.

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Upside Learning

AUGUST 20, 2010

Upsidelearning Blog -Read series on IPhone-User interface guidelines 1-3. Developing advance IPhone app like BASIC twitter /facebook client. Regarding videos : After registering to free iPhone development program you can download and view related videos through iTunes. IOS Development Quick Start -Hello World App. Simple application.

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Upside Learning

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Increase Learner Engagement through Social Media. The younger generation of learners is more inclined towards Blog, Facebook, Twitter and instant access to information on the Internet, preferring self-paced web-based training, available anywhere and anytime.

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Upside Learning

JANUARY 11, 2011

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. 15 Fabulous Blogs Should Follow By Game Addictive. 100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration. 11 Ways to Learn in 2011.

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Upside Learning

JULY 2, 2012

Tom Spiglanin blogs about his mLearnCon experience here. Very similar to what I was thinking , for me, there were three key themes at the conference – learning management – Tin Can API, the inclusion of gamification in learning, and the impact of social networking and large mobile platforms that will dominate computing in the years to come.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Some posts that were interesting related to mobile learning on our blog: 1. The Social Media and Mobile Computing Explosion. Interesting posts related to games on our blog: 1. Social Learning – Social learning has made it big this year. Blending Learning with Social Technology Components. Happy New Year!

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Upside Learning

APRIL 25, 2012

We’ve shared some of our thinking on mobile learning through blogs posts in the recent past and thought it worthwhile to collect the information into a single booklet for you. Feel free to tweet about it, share it on Facebook, email it and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Basics of mLearning Strategy.

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Upside Learning

JULY 10, 2012

Social Learning – Learning Management Systems have started offering tools that mimic social media/network software. The LMS and SNS – now have a fine balance with systems handling both- the elements of training and the ‘networkedness’ of the social learning. But this is changing.

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Upside Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2010

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. How to Back-up Your Blog and Why You Should. Find directions for creating offline back-ups of Blogger blogs, Edublogs blogs, and WordPress.com blogs.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

The key - this is a social game, your attack and defense points are implicitly related to how many people are following you on Twitter and how many of those you manage to convince to join the game. The “become a vampire/werewolf/zombie/banker/whatever” game apps on Facebook got old quickly–their scope was too limited.&#.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

The key - this is a social game, your attack and defense points are implicitly related to how many people are following you on Twitter and how many of those you manage to convince to join the game. The “become a vampire/werewolf/zombie/banker/whatever” game apps on Facebook got old quickly–their scope was too limited.&#.

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