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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

The meaning of ‘community’ has changed drastically with the spread of the internet and the rise of all the social networks. No longer confined by geography, people who share the same interests can connect, share and grow as a community online. Read more: Expanding your company L&D strategy to CoPs.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. For example, bloggers may not communicate well with IM users. This is not atypical when companies adopt new technologies. Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net.

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Social Learning: Key resources from January

Jane Hart

… Informal learning and social learning are no doubt stealing the tarts. ” 2 - A company of one in an architecture of cooperation , Stowe Boyd, 1 January 2012. ” 3 - 10 enterprise social networking obstacles , the brainyard, Information Week 3 January 2012.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Training departments are no more at fault than bankrupt companies like Blockbuster Video, Borders, Silicon Graphics, Nortel Networks, Circuit City, Bethlehem Steel, Smith Corona, Polaroid, Wang Labs, or Underwood Typewriters. After the war, big corporations replaced small companies. Drucker wrote The Practice of Management.