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Social Networking – A Contrarian View

Upside Learning

Sure, lots of companies want to replicate ‘Facebook’ behind the firewall; safe from prying eyes, but open enough for employees to freely express themselves. Has your organization implemented a social networking platform? But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning?

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What does an mLearning participant look like?

Integrated Learnings

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around Mobile Learning, or mLearning for short, and how it is changing the face of learning in organizations. There are always technology challenges with this when trying to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or accessing a closed firewall from outside the office. by Dean Hawkinson.

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Social Media vs. Social Learning

Integrated Learnings

Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. Many companies block external sites such as Twitter and Facebook, but a lot of them are deploying their own internal social media sites or corporate-friendly tools such as Yammer. By Dean Hawkinson.

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The Best Ways to Do Cyber Resilience Training

Cloudshare

Companies in every industry are staying on their toes to avoid the costly consequences of a data breach by installing firewalls, encryption methods, and anti-malware measures. That’s why your organization must focus on cyber resiliency training. Facebook (over 540 million records) – poor security. Desjardins (2.9 What can I do?

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You JUST hired this person.do you even know.

Mark Oehlert

Do you have any idea at all what kind of network that person will be bringing into your organization? When discussions about blocking networks like Twitter and Facebook at the corporate firewall seemed more common (they seem to have settled down but I could be just not hearing the stories), one example I always used was about ROI.

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Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use

Tony Karrer

There are some things that are already pretty clear: Organizations should attempt to adopt tools in concert with what workers are adopting already. In other words, if facebook and del.icio.us are already being used, then try to align your strategies with these tools rather than trying to provide behind-the-firewall solutions.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

ID Reflections

With her focus on the main tools that have grabbed “global imagination” namely, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and Wikis, Jane Bozarth writes a lucid, eminently readable account of what technology has to offer in terms of Social Media tools and their position in the sphere of learning.