In the past several years, in the area of "social" tools and technologies, I've witnessed the rise and fall of various related concepts and terms, both in the Learning and Development industry and in the business world more broadly. Several years ago, learning professionals followed the broader trend and adopted the term  Web 2.0  to describe Internet technologies that provided for much greater two-way interaction, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and so on. Twitter) arose to great prominence, the term "Web 2.0" But "Web 2.0" MORE >>

The meme forest fire of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business is blazing wildly across all geographies of opinion. We’ve got Enterprise 2.0 in one corner with no shortage of opinions and Social Business in the other corner with even more opinion. The ‘phrase-father’ of Enterprise 2.0 Individuals in roles that are coined community managers, social media/networking/learning leaders, consultants, VC’s, 2.0 bleeding edge personalities et al, can easily drift in between the terms Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: There are those who can’t avoid the temptation of beer, salt and sugary snacks at night and there are people like me who treat new learning and collaboration platforms infectiously. Perhaps at the core I yearn to learn, but that’s another post for another day. Brought to you by the makers of Grockit – an online social learning test prep service for items such as GMAT, SAT, ACT and GRE – Learnist is an attempt to crowd-source knowledge, information and content into a manner that is a cross between Web 2.0 MORE >>

Now is the time for learning professionals to embrace social learning as an emerging and engaging way to enhance an organization’s learning strategy. Budget cuts, staff reductions, travel embargos, and facility consolidation have left many chief learning officers and learning professionals clamoring for the emergency brake. Add to this the rising inferno (and demand) of social media, informal learning, and anything to do with a 2.0 According to IDC, the ratio of company employees to learning professionals has increased. MORE >>

I was at DevLearn 2010 last week - I had a great time presenting and I learned from some true masters. Conferences like this are a great experience in terms of actually meeting people in your personal learning network and getting to know them first hand. 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. People are Already Sharing Out There We're born with the fundamental desire to share and learn from peers. For example, a lot of enterprise 2.0 MORE >>