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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Properly d.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. I learned that the Target Center in Minneapolis is the 28 th busiest building in the nation via Facebook today. That’s right, FACEBOOK! ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Bringing learning to the workplace, step 3: People

Challenge to Learn

When you have a question or problem, you find a colleague who knows the answer, you apply what you have learned and you go on with your job. A tool that could support you in this is Yammer. The most important is that you can control who has access to your Yammer, based on email address or invitation.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

I have a private Facebook account too, but I hardly use it. We did consider creating a community there for our free edition, but in the end we decided to go with Yammer (see communities). We now use Facebook more for announcements and things like that. We now use Facebook more for announcements and things like that.

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Change Management Strategy: Use Social Media

Infopro Learning

Social mediums such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Yammer may be used as Knowledge Networks to share information related to change within the organization, as opposed to receiving information through more formal and traditional training methods. Share Through a Knowledge Network.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. It can also be the device to use when you need an immediate answer to a performance problem and you know just the right person who can help you! The most popular social networking site, now with over 1 billion users – everyone knows Facebook! 8 - PowerPoint.

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The 10 Commandments of Microblogging

E-Learning Provocateur

As microblogging solutions such as Yammer sweep across the corporate sector, a melting pot of social media veterans and newbies inevitably begins to boil. Some don’t even have a Facebook account, let alone Twitter. This in itself isn’t a problem. And this is a wonderful thing. I’m all for it.

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