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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Wanna new job? How about CEO at SocialText?

Mark Oehlert

How about CEO at SocialText? Ross is the founder of Social Text , "the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 Today Im invoking themost powerful inflection point I can for Socialtext. It is time for Socialtext to be taken to the next level,and for that, I want to openly recruit the CEO 2.0

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A Great Example of "Being" Social vs "Doing" Social

Mark Oehlert

BTW, if you''d like to talk about Socialtext/Peoplefluent''s offerings, I''d be happy to ;-)). Find out how far your company needs to go to become social - it''s not about technology. .' I talk to folks all the time though who think that the all you have to do is buy and deploy a social platform and poof! you''re a social business.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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5 Ways to Kick-Start Great On-the-Job Sales Training

Mindflash

Is there a more critical function in most companies than enabling sales professionals to excel their jobs? According to Bersin & Associates , 73% of companies believe their most valuable learning approaches are informal, yet only 30% of resources are focused there. Peer-to-Peer Networks.

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Get Started in Social Learning in 5 Steps (Without Spending a Dime)

Mindflash

Have that discussion on Yammer or Socialtext or other similar, free software that allows people to talk to each other. If your company has any kind of internal collaboration software or even discussion groups on an intranet, use that. That’s right, delete it from the learner guide or slide, if you have to.

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You know, the whole duality of Man thing. #socbiz

Mark Oehlert

Social is not reliant on any one tool, but often tools (like Socialtext for instance ;-)) can lend scale and speed and additional capabilities to efforts to make more of the organization visible and transparent. I find myself saying a lot of things like "social is different" but it is and here are some of the ways it has a dual nature. .

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Your company will install an in-house social network. Imagine that a Senior Executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence.