E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 17, 2012

Intrinsic motivation is obvious to anyone who knows the saying “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” In other words, you can unleash your business champions and push all the promotion you like, but if the individuals who comprise your target audience lack a collaborative attitude, they won’t use Yammer.

Yammer 134

Yammer Social Networks Forum Social Network 134

E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

SAS doesn’t just talk about transparency, integrity and collaboration: they breathe life into these principles through their application and approach to internal blogs, customer blogs and external social media. Tags: social media blogging enterprise 2.0 Shouldn’t more companies follow SAS’s lead?

Web 100

Web Enterprise 2.0 Social Media Enterprise 100

E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Imagine interacting with your colleagues across the enterprise, asking questions, collaborating, sharing knowledge. Tags: Twitter informal learning social media social networking enterprise 2.0 I share my knowledge, and I learn a lot more in return. So as a technology, Twitter is really simple. participatory culture.

Twitter 198

Twitter Scanning Social Networks Business 198

E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Loads of new people from disparate areas of the business communicating and collaborating with one other, usually for the first time ever? The point of an enterprise-wide microblog is that it generates value. And this is a wonderful thing. I’m all for it. Having said that, many of the noobs have never microblogged before.

Yammer 110

Yammer Social Media Poll Twitter 110

E-Learning Provocateur

JUNE 10, 2014

Of course the question might not revolve around mobile learning, but rather gamification, or enterprise social networking, or flipped classrooms, or whatever the hot topic may be. Forgive me: it’s a rhetorical question. I know you have. Because everyone has.

Innovation 235

Innovation Social Networks Conference Yammer 235

E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 19, 2012

Organisations whose people embrace collaboration will prosper, while those who don’t will be left behind. One of the recurring themes on my blog is a call for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to share their knowledge with the wider organisation. In my view, this isn’t just an expectation: it’s an obligation.

Expertise 184

Expertise Expert Attitudes Tutorial 184

E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 19, 2012

Organisations whose people embrace collaboration will prosper, while those who don’t will be left behind. One of the recurring themes on my blog is a call for Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to share their knowledge with the wider organisation. In my view, this isn’t just an expectation: it’s an obligation.

Expertise 105

Expertise Expert Attitudes Tutorial 105

E-Learning Provocateur

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Relying on truisms such as “all learning is social&# and on altruistic notions such as “collaborative learning&# is a cop out. It’s important to recognise the role of social media in facilitating social learning in the workplace. However it’s not a panacea.

Social Media 156

Social Media Media Social Social Networks 156

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 8, 2012

The Social Intranet Index is a metric that denotes the degree of social functionality afforded by an enterprise’s intranet. While these apps aren’t components of the enterprise’s intranet proper, they’re accessible from there and thus form part of the network. Which one is more adaptable to change?

Social 214

Social Social Networks Wiki Social Media 214

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2012

I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability.

Social 180

Social Metrics Examples Sample 180

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 8, 2012

The Social Intranet Index is a metric that denotes the degree of social functionality afforded by an enterprise’s intranet. While these apps aren’t components of the enterprise’s intranet proper, they’re accessible from there and thus form part of the network. Which one is more adaptable to change?

Social 100

Social Social Networks Wiki Social Media 100

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 29, 2012

I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability.

Social 100

Social Metrics Examples Sample 100

E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 3, 2009

While Faith recognised that generational attributes are widely disputed (eg online habits are not defined by age but by exposure to emerging technology), her key message is that people across all generations are using technology today to bridge gaps and collaborate.

Blended Learning 105

Blended Learning Compliance Training Wiki Evalution 105

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Help them make the mental leap from what social media is currently being used for (at least in their world) to what it could be used for – particularly in terms of customer service, sales, marketing, public relations, communication, engagement, collaboration and innovation. It’s an arms race.

Social Media 161

Social Media Media Social Propaganda 161

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Help them make the mental leap from what social media is currently being used for (at least in their world) to what it could be used for – particularly in terms of customer service, sales, marketing, public relations, communication, engagement, collaboration and innovation. It’s an arms race.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Social Propaganda 100