E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I had the privilege of facilitating one of the breakout sessions, which focused on the business applications of Twitter. In a nutshell, I see the business applications of Twitter falling into three main categories: 1. So maybe Twitter provides your business with an opportunity to engage with a different demographic of customer.

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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. Share Through a Knowledge Network. Use of Social Media. Build a Collaborative Culture. Generate Ideas.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

- Leveraging Learning , October 6, 2009 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009 10 Tips to Get Started with Twitter - Learn and Lead , April 18, 2009 Coping with Twitter - Learning Conversations , February 26, 2010 Hashtags in Twitter and walls, fountains, ways to keep everyone's remarks in the picture (..)

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Origin Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Why do you think successful business leaders write long notes and share them on LinkedIn? It is our innate nature to feel appreciated and complimented that’s helped fuel the billion-dollar business that Facebook has grown into today. Closed Learning Networks. Reference: Harvard Business Review. Image Credit- Pexels.

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Mindflash

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

The reading could be to read an article from Fast Company or Harvard Business Review. The discussion would be a threaded discussion on an enterprise social network, like Yammer. The Mindflash / Yammer integration is a perfect combination for facilitating the design elements above.

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OpenSesame

MAY 10, 2011

Yesterday, Dan Pontefract published a thought-provoking post on the pros and cons of offering incentives to employees for participation in professional social networks like Yammer or SocialCast. For some background reading on the useful applications of social networks in the work sphere, read our posts on What Is Social Learning?

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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. Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. 2 - YouTube. 7 – Skype.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Google Docs Tools 211

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Personal Personalization 140

Mindflash

JANUARY 14, 2013

Businesses are under pressure to perform and people cannot spend all day in training. If you are really good, host that discussion on Yammer or similar enterprise social network. If you are a Yammer and a Mindflash client, you can install the Mindflash application in Yammer to combine them seamlessly.

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Jane Hart

MAY 2, 2011

Trust and networks , Gideon Rosenblatt, Alchemy of Change, 16 April 2011. “Trust makes networks work. When trust is high among members of a network, there’s a wonderful cohesiveness and capacity to get work done. The cultural imperative for a social business.

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Jane Hart

MARCH 18, 2013

This is often due to the fact that they need to provide quantifiable success metrics for their own activities, and find it hard to isolate the results of their “learning support” activities from overall team or business performance improvements. ECM activities are likely to include.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 14, 2012

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Member profiling. Activity streams. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions. Notifications.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

The organization’s ESN may support this, though (and probably unfortunately) many business units have their own tools. Here we (should) see organization wide Enterprise Social Networks like Jive and Yammer, etc. Communities are large, so we need to start having subgroups, and profiles become important.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 21, 2016

Foster connections through networking events. It is a social experience hosted in a private Yammer group. You’ll come through the challenge with a fresh set of insights for reinvigorating your approach to supporting your business. Empower employee-led learning. Develop new professional learning skills. Highly Recommended.”

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 16, 2012

Since then, she has joined Dachis Group where she and James Dellow write about social business on the Headshift blog. Stephen Colman – To be perfectly honest, I only stumbled upon Steve’s musings after his employer and mine merged and he started banging on about stuff on Yammer.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 1, 2011

May turned out to be a very busy month for me, in ways that I hadn’t anticipated. The case for online social networking in education , Jose Picardo, 14 May 2011. Without workflow, social business is doomed , Agency Collaboration, 26 May 2011. But first a review of May 2011.

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Mindflash

APRIL 30, 2013

The reading could be to read an article from Fast Company or Harvard Business Review. The discussion would be a threaded discussion on an enterprise social network, like Yammer. The Mindflash / Yammer integration is a perfect combination for facilitating the design elements above.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

social networks (yammer, chatter). By putting a measurable business goal — a high-level evaluation — first and making it the center of everything we do, we publicly commit to improving our organization’s performance and demonstrate our value.” – Cathy Moore. just-in-time performance tools (checklists, quick reference guides).

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 24, 2016

the more I’m working and talking with other businesses, professions, and industries outside L&D, it’s becoming painfully obvious that we are falling behind”. Helen is the recipient of the inaugural Jay Cross Memorial Award, and has wide experience both of working within L&D and more recently as a external consultant.

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Social Networks Yammer Social Media Courseware 100

InsiderHub

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you like to have your own private Facebook or Twitter network for your company? That is the main idea behind Yammer. This simplifies the learning process and is a good way to help employees learn things for business. CollectMyThoughts provides user reviews on business solutions. out of 5 stars). out of 5 stars).

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. and learning networks. You’re a learning leader.

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Obsidian Learning

MARCH 24, 2015

Here at Obsidian, we use both email and messaging ( Skype ) for inter-office communication, a combination that works just fine for us as a small, woman-owned business. And we’ve also looked at using social learning to build communities of practice and personal learning networks. Messaging Apps in the Workplace.

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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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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. Instagram and Path.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. and learning networks.

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Mindflash

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Integrate social networks, like Yammer , to allow your workforce to collaborate, communicate, socialize, and create informal learning spaces outside of (but connected to) formal learning spaces. Integration with social networks, like Yammer, allow for after-training conversations, mentoring, knowledge sharing and informal learning.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 3, 2012

The four themes were business acumen and leadership, social learning, rapid instructional design, and experimenting with innovative ideas. Business acumen and leadership skills. Business acumen and leadership are about workplace-learning leaders spending more time gaining a deep understanding of the business constituents they serve.

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Social Networks Evernote Instructional Design Yammer 87

CLO Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

A collaborative system note (perhaps on Jive, Slack or Yammer). These could consist of messages in SMS, Messenger, Slack, Jive or other social networks. Nudges can also be driven by data from systems, business results and customer feedback. Imagine gentle nudges coming to your employees. A text message.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Category: Social Networking Platform. Elgg is a social networking engine and publishing platform for running your own social networking site on a public or private server. VoiceThread has a professional version for businesses that provides features for secure sharing and management of threads for staff and clients.

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Rob Hubbard

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Clive Shepherd in ‘The Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual’ describes elearning as ‘ when we use computers and the networks to which these are linked, to in some way support the learning process’. So what exactly is eLearning? Let’s go back to basics…. What is eLearning?

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Virtual Classroom Social Networks Corporate eLearning Simulations 94

CLO Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

A collaborative system note (perhaps on Jive, Slack or Yammer). These could consist of messages in SMS, Messenger, Slack, Jive or other social networks. Nudges can also be driven by data from systems, business results and customer feedback. Imagine gentle nudges coming to your employees. A text message.

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Jive Social Networks Yammer Pattern 36

Mindflash

JULY 23, 2014

Business simulations and case studies: Create real-life stories related to business issues. Micro-blogging through social networks like Yammer can extend the conversation and make learning real. Quizzes: Test your learners’ comprehension. Ask learners to collaborate, post solutions, and discuss.

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microlearning Social Networks Blended Learning Online 89

Mindflash

APRIL 25, 2011

Most businesses realize this already — but many often allocate sales training resources in the wrong areas. Peer-to-Peer Networks. Get set up on Yammer , SocialText , Jambok , Clearvale , or an equivalent network. After all, a high-performing sales force is the lifeblood of most organizations including non-profits.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Today’s top leaders know that every business is a social business. Many businesses have been launched over the last decade to support these goals, making it much easier for a leader to shift into this new employee motivation paradigm. Embrace the social enterprise. Focus on employee growth.

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Mindflash

JUNE 13, 2012

It could be during team meetings, casually by the water cooler, or in a group over an enterprise social-networking platform. If you don’t already have an enterprise social-networking tool in your organization, don’t worry. Yammer , Clearvale , and Socialcast all offer free versions. Try a Free E-2.0 Gather people.

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OpenSesame

DECEMBER 10, 2012

To make the most of Twitter for professional development and learning, you need to build a network of people with shared interests, unique experience and insights to network with and learn from. Great networking opportunity. Getting “on Twitter” is just the first step. Still not on Twitter? J ay Cross ?(@jaycross) Steve Nguyen

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. To me, LinkedIn is very limited in it's ability to set up communities.

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