Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Nancy White and John Smith will be doing a session at LearnTrends 2009 (a free online conference – you should definitely go register). And as a bonus, John will be doing another session with Jack Merklien of Xerox Global Services on communities. So, if you don't win the free copy, then you should go buy it.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

Examples (from The Social Enterprise Blog ): Caterpillar 3000 communities of practice = $75 million saved as of 5 years ago. Ace–500% ROI in 6 months in increased sales from connecting dealers to share expertise. Posted in Informal Learning, Learning Communities. Hard/soft benefits.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Plug for ASTD - CPLP Certification includes all of these areas of expertise. Moderator (Harold Jarche): @Tammy does certification = expertise?

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

We addressed this question at the April 2009 Learntrends event. An active community of practice is a different animal from a bottom-up knowledge management network or a corporate news channel. New communities have different requirements than old. Digital Habitats posits the role of the community technology steward.

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