Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning by Paul on May 5, 2011 in Informal Learning , blended learning , social learning Companies are spending next to nothing on social learning, and their frugality is going to come back to haunt them.  Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 Across all US companies, spending averaged $6,463 for informal learning tools and services.  MORE >>

Here on the last day of the year, I offer my predications for the big and shaping trends we’ll see in the enterprise mobile learning space for 2012. Whatever it is, this one is music to my ears after many years of toiling away to make mLearning a reality for the enterprise. Is enterprise mobile learning best delivered via native mobile apps or using mobile web apps? We also think hybrid apps that mix the best of native apps and mobile web apps will have a bigger impact on enterprise mobile learning thoroughout 2012 than just pure mobile web apps for that same market. MORE >>

Don't all our companies have their own walled gardens of knowledge? These questions led me to think that there's perhaps a few fundamental realities that we're missing with the whole enterprise social learning practice. This explains the low uptake of enterprise intranets. Parallel Social Universes need Common Sense Aggregation "People's time is a zero sum game." - Mark Oelhert , Defense Acquisition University The drive to mimic social software in the enterprise is a well intentioned one. For example, a lot of enterprise 2.0 Why was anyone doing this? MORE >>

The tools DON'T matter if you don't have the Right Environment Last year, I'd written a post that talked about how little things can help your enterprise 2.0 The concept of self-organisation is pretty cool, but in my experience of working with a strongly self-organising company, I can say a couple of things: To self-organise, the first thing people need is a shared objective. In the initial stages of an enterprise 2.0 If you liked my post today, you may also like my other posts on the topic of enterprise 2.0. The other group believed that the tools didn't matter. MORE >>

The most powerful approach to strategy development, from my experience, is to develop one that is business-driven – aligned to larger company goals like increased innovation, increased collaboration across traditional organizational silos, reducing reliance on the aging workforce, compressing time to performance, etc.  I advise you to conduct a proof of concept and pilot test before committing to an enterprise wide implementation. Step 1 – Strategize : There is no one “right” Social Learning strategy, and there is no one right way to develop one.  See step 4. MORE >>