Saffron Interactive

JUNE 22, 2012

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest. You idiot!”

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Infopro Learning

MARCH 12, 2015

For this blog, I will focus on the use of social media as a strategy to facilitate and manage change for business transformation—to stay competitive and survive in increasingly harder business climates. The use of social media gives a big boost to creating a more collaborative environment for change initiative. Generate Ideas.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

MARCH 4, 2012

What is Yammer? Yammer is booming, especially in the Nederland within Europe. Many companies have started their Yammer groups for rapid internal exchange. 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.

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Challenge to Learn

MAY 30, 2011

Recently a company ask me to to give them an introduction in the usage of social media, by explaining to them how I use it. I actively started using LinkedIn (my first social media site) in 2004. This weekend I read an old but interesting post on LinkedIn strategies. Easygenerator retweets my tweets and vise versa.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2011

The term comes from “web log” which is shortened to “blog.” A blog will allow others to comment on the blog entries but not alter the original entry in any way. Social Bookmarking. Social Network. Older versions are archived. Good for group authored ebooks or collaborative projects. Short Text Messaging.

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Allison Rossett

JULY 17, 2012

An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,

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Allison Rossett

JULY 17, 2012

An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. The information aggregation tools are used to collect and organize information from various resources (websites, podcasts, blogs). RSS (really simple syndication) readers and social bookmarking are two popular information aggregation tools. Social bookmarking tools (i.e.,

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

For me, it’s Word for writing, OmniGraffle for diagramming (as this one was created in), WordPress for this blog (my thinking out loud; it is for me, at least in the first instance), and a suite of note taking software (depending on type of notes) and personal productivity. and Facebook (mostly friends, but some from our own field).

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Blogs, writing and reading. I know that blogs are not as hot anymore as they were 10 years ago, but for me they are still very important. I write this blog and I read lot’s of them. Here are some of the tools I use: I write this blog in WordPress. Following other blogs is much more difficult.

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Marcia Conner

MARCH 28, 2013

Buffer – Providing an easy way to share tweets (or status updates to most every social network) by allowing you to choose set times to post each day. In addition to Twitter, I also use Socialtext Signals , Socialcast , and Yammer with different organizations I work with. Mobile and desktop versions available.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

This post represents thinking from both of us that I've edited heavily to make it more easily consumed here in the blog. However, I've struggled with the problem of destinations vs. social networks and the spread of conversation (see Forums vs. Social Networks ). It can be tried for free at Talkwheel.com.

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Mindflash

AUGUST 8, 2011

Since spring of this year, I have designed several learning programs using Yammer with good results. In this post I’ll show you how I use Yammer in our training classes and how you can too. You must have the belief that any (well, just about any) activity you do in class can be done on a social network.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Instead of sharing my preferences of specific tools ( LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest , Slack , Yammer , etc.), I’m going to concentrate on overall features to look for, considerations, what you might want to learn more about, and my vision for the future of social and community tools and apps.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If your organization doesn’t like the idea of using Twitter for company conversations, then the next best thing is to set up some sort of corporate company (Twitter-like) network. Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. This is the most popular blogging platform. 5 - WordPress. 10 - Wikipedia.

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 30, 2011

Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. We also use tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media. In a lot of cases, we are using internal corporate social media tools to collaborate. By Dean Hawkinson. 3-- Create an Alumni group.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2015

Facebook, is for me, the place I be me. I can see a B2C company using Facebook, but that’s not me, so it’s not a biz place. Oddly, I used to connect to almost anyone related to elearning on Facebook, but I realized that was a mistake. And, of course, this is my blog, for deeper reflections. Like this.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The impact of social media has complicated matters. How we connect — in person, through blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or through other methods of online collaboration — says more about us than we may realize. All leaders today require a brand, whether they want one or not.

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InsiderHub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

However, the application of social learning is slow, and may not even take off at all, over the long term. What is social learning, and will we see more of it in coming years? In a nutshell, social learning takes concepts from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and applies them to workplaces.

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Degreed

APRIL 18, 2019

The post Introducing Degreed’s New Pathways: Helping You Learn Better and Together appeared first on Degreed Blog. We’re especially excited about the new tracking capabilities, which should help your organization get a better idea of consumption metrics so you can continuously iterate and create the best learning experiences possible!

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party. There's a lot there, so if you were going to choose two, probably Crowdsourcing in the Small and Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities would be the two.

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Jane Hart

MAY 2, 2011

Lots of interesting articles and blog postings appeared last month – but here are are few I’ve marked as must-reads. Trust and networks , Gideon Rosenblatt, Alchemy of Change, 16 April 2011. “Trust makes networks work. My 2011 Reading List.

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OpenSesame

JANUARY 24, 2011

Social media has made me better at my job. Not just because it’s part of my job to use it, but because social networks make it easy to surround myself with new ideas, great information and useful resources. Blogs/RSS Readers. Facebook. I use Facebook for general learning.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 7, 2011

Here are some of the tried and true apps for information sharing, collaboration, social networking and staying organized: Evernote and other note-taking apps that sync information among all of your devices, making it easy to track your to-do list, add photos, clip webpages and share information with your colleagues.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. subQuark , June 14, 2009 Twitter Collaboration Stories eLearning Technology.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 12, 2014

We share knowledge on Twitter, contribute to discussions on LinkedIn, read books, write blogs, comment on blogs, subscribe to industry magazines, share links to online articles, watch videos, and participate in MOOCs. My poll results from Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector are somewhat enlightening.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 1, 2011

I didn’t know whether this would prove useful or popular, but as it happens my blog stats seem to suggest that they have been some of the most popular postings I have made, so I shall continue to do this. The case for online social networking in education , Jose Picardo, 14 May 2011.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow.

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Logicearth

MAY 26, 2022

In a recent article for this very blog, I wrote about the importance of cohort-based learning as a way to motivate and empower learners. Cohort-based learning programs usually combine instructor-led live sessions and learning resources, with a significant focus on social learning.

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Origin Learning

MAY 22, 2018

Earlier blog posts have stressed on how workplace learning has evolved over the years and L&D managers are re-inventing the wheel to meet the demands of the ‘millennial audience’. In this blog post, we examine ‘informal learning’ and see how it can play a major role in modern workplace learning. Understanding Informal Learning?

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 26, 2009

Yammer (internal twittering) is almost impossible to explain to someone who has no experience with any social networking (and probably not with anything more than email lists). My suggestion is that you don't really try to sell Yammer or a Wiki or any other kind of tool. Twitter/Yammer is something new.

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MobileTrain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Recently, people asked me to give a keynote speech on social learning and a debate afterwards. I will try to elaborate on those questions in this blog. When can we use social learning? Is our company’s culture ready for social learning? However, launching an Enterprise Social Network will not make the culture shift.

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Logicearth

MAY 26, 2022

In a recent article for this very blog, I wrote about the importance of cohort-based learning as a way to motivate and empower learners. Cohort-based learning programs usually combine instructor-led live sessions and learning resources, with a significant focus on social learning.

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KZO Innovations

JANUARY 28, 2016

More employees are taking advantage of learning and professional development opportunities outside the workplace, taking to social networks like LinkedIn, listening to podcasts and TED Talks, or even accessing free or low-cost online courses such as those available through Lynda, Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Category: Blogs. Blogging to teach others is common in the public domain, but not so within an organization. This software provides a way to centralize and manage blogs within an institution by hosting them all on one domain. Internal experts could blog about their areas of proficiency. Edublogs Campus.

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mLearning Trends

OCTOBER 31, 2010

It has certainly been a "month of Sundays" since I last posted to this blog and I offer apologies for not sharing more throughout what has proved to be a very busy and productive summer and fall season. Social Networking. The real trick is to harness the power and potential of the popular social network methods and sites (e.g.,

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Learning Visions

JANUARY 25, 2012

These are my live blogged notes from the opening session at ASTD’s TK12 in Las Vegas. Sharing lots of stats…800,000,000 on Facebook, iphone sales, tablet sales, etc. 2012 is the year of collaboration. Opening video produced by video – Search on in 2011 – the year in review. 2011 was the year of…” – go Google it and watch it.

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Mindflash

JULY 23, 2014

Blog posts and articles: Encourage learners to create articles that teach how to do something, answer FAQs, or tell stories about lessons learned. Micro-blogging through social networks like Yammer can extend the conversation and make learning real. Follow her on LinkedIn or Google+.'

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