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Keys to Hacking Virtual Networking

Learning Rebels

Let’s face it – networking is a PAIN in the best of times and when it comes to virtual networking – it’s even more painful. What are the “hacks” to make virtual networking more palatable? Generally, the reason we look to networking is to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.

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Championing Social Learning in Communities

Logicearth

Digitally supported learning communities support networking, innovation and knowledge and experience sharing. Creating an events calendar. Engagement in learning communities can be challenging to maintain. People tend to deprioritise community involvement, to focus on “real work”. Organising live gatherings.

Community 105
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Conference Outcomes?

Clark Quinn

Our social events, networking and trivia, didn’t do quite so well. The networking night did have a small attendance but the trivia night didn’t reach critical mass. As a faculty member opined, they wished they could’ve loaded all the sesssions into their calendar with one click.

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Supercharge your digital training

E-Learning Provocateur

Add reminders into your participants’ calendars; schedule learning blocks; benchmark progress by declaring where they should be up by now; and host a complementary social networking group to keep the flame alive. So make time. Provide context.

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Social Network Tools

Tony Karrer

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

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Social networking is king

E-Learning Provocateur

Another principle that resonated with me was, in my own words: Social networking is king. Social networking has been around since the dawn of time. Over 5000 enthusiastic members chat online, comment on the blog, post messages, upload photos, and keep track of their calendar of events. The goal posts have moved.

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Integrating Social Learning In The Workplace

Learnnovators

I have been writing about social learning and its related concepts – communities of practices , working out loud and skills for the networked world for quite some time now. Social learning has become a buzzword in the workplace learning space, and every other organization is claiming to have “social learning” as a part of the mix.