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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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Informal Learning: People can train you but they can't "learn" you.

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Social networks are vital to informal learning. Social networks are bringing people together; that's why learning takes place. Some steps to take: Legitimizing conversations, make it easy to find one another, read blogs, receive RSS feeds, connect 3. You know when its over. Organizations and Informal Learning: 1.

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Posts that Influenced Me in 2009

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That pondering took me back to all the blog posts by various bloggers that have most influenced my thought process and my posts in 2009. Understanding Homophily on the Web (Bamboo Project: this blog was also my discovery of 2009) What did I learn: The Internet encourages the coming together of like minds. and Cynefin 13.

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Heutagogy, Self-Directed Learning and Complex Work

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He further writes that: “Examples of this type of workplace learning include narrating work and sharing with colleagues – often achieved by micro-blogging on a regular (possibly daily) basis; active participation in professional social networks is another example.”

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Learning Resources from Informal Learning (Jay Cross): Part 1

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Orgnet.com : Social network analysts.also look at their blog: The Network Thinker Quinnovation : wonderful resource site on games, mobile learning, performance support, content models--all based on sound cognitive background, vast technology and business experience. Communication Nation : Dave Gray's Blog.

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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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In response to The importance of being synchronous

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Tags: asynchronous comm synchronous comm social networking sites communication.