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AUGUST 1, 2011

Since its launch in beta format a month ago, Google+ has registered some significant buzz within the social learning community. Whether it turns out to be a game changer or just another useful tool in the social learning arsenal has yet to be determined, but in my opinion, it wasn’t even Google’s most revolutionary social launch that week.

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MARCH 13, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog. We thought we could train them to do their jobs.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Even with the help of the newest technology tools to communicate and educate including social media, wikis, and Google, we still need to transform our ILT classrooms and training sessions into integrated blended learning environments. Introduce your information slowly. To make the transition to facilitator I had to change my mindset.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

On a recent trip to New York, my job was to provide on-the-fly navigational instructions using Google Maps. Two huge problems: I didn’t know how to use my mobile Google Maps app well – at all. At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain-dead easy to use as possible.”. No problem, Right? It’s not 65 mph?”

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JUNE 28, 2011

Google and everything it represents, is facing the first stages of irrelevancy. What do these little kernels of information tell us? This means information will, by default, need to be increasingly bite sized. It now accounts for 1 out of every 8 minutes of online time, as opposed to 1 out of 13 at the beginning of the year.

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MAY 18, 2012

I’m of course talking about Project Glass , an R&D program by Google to prototype and build an augmented reality head-mounted display (or HMD). Well, this short video alone shows six examples of how Google’s new glasses could help us learn: P2P Communication – According to the 70/20/10 rule , 20% of what we learn comes from others.

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