Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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Introducting social media in organisations to improve the learning function is more difficult than you may think.

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

For some time now, I have an evaluation report of an organization that has experience with the introduction of social media (like wikis and blog) in the organization since 2009. An example: a team had to develop a new program and proposed to use a wiki, as the place for the exchange of all documents, presentations and photos.

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Social media: 4 opportunities for secondary education

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Twitter was popular, but also RSS readers like igoogle were appreciated, to follow a few interesting sites or blogs. A group explored wikis and discussed the idea to put examresults on a wiki up for questions. Using a wiki might be a more efficient way. Now a lot of questions are received by email.

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Various ways to use social media as a facilitator or trainer

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

You may be using a combination of social media that are complementary: Yammer for support and contact, Scrumble for brainstorming, a wiki to collect information and documents, a unique hashtag in delicious to build a joint library. His blog post is worth a read. Online Learning Network : You want to help people blog.

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Switch for social media

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I want to use my blog to see if I can apply the lessons from Switch to the introduction of social media, whether for groups, organisations or networks. It is discouraging if you are starting a wiki not knowing what type of wiki to use. But maybe I already do it unconsciously based on my experiences.

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Any tool can do, culture matters

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I'm writing blogging tips for a book we're writing and one of the tips is to create a rhythm of posting. I had a good blogging rhythm but now I seem to loose it! But let's try to stick to a weekly rhythm and blogging about a past experience still lingering in my head. So I need tips how to keep your rhythm.

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Book review: Social media for trainers

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Unfortunately, Jane Bozarth has chosen to discuss the options tool by tool (Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis and other tools) which leads to some repetition in how it can be used in an online course or in addition to a traditional face-to-face course (hate the word traditional because it makes you feel like it is something outdated!).

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Yammer for internal knowledge sharing for health care and policy making

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

If you don't know Yammer: Yammer is kind of Twitter (micro-blogging) service which can be used within organisation, so it is not public like on Twitter. Someone from KLM told me for instance he was looking for someone who could explain their wiki system to him.

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