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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Grounding our work usually involves outreach to find the research studies and theoretical models that can help us clearly conceptualize a practice and give us guidelines to ensure effectiveness.  I am a card-carrying member of the scholar-practitioner special interest group in the Academy of Human Resource Development and a big advocate of grounding my everyday work in the research and theoretical underpinnings of our field.  But I’ve caught myself maybe not doing that when I should. 
 
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Intel Guidelines Document is light touch and well thought out. The January edition of Learning Technologies Magazine was launched at the conference last week I wrote my third article on the topic of social networking and there is so much buzzing around that theme that it is worth mentionning here.
 
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
is effective - Use blogs, use search engines, integrate it into the culture, assign "wiki gardeners" to review posts, have well document policies and guidelines. 8:15 :: Jim (committee chair) takes the stage. Tells a great joke about limiting his speech to 140 characters. Gets a laugh at the show, but not as big.
 

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This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Not surprising - it goes a long way to protect the company from fallout if/when staff do ignore the social media guidelines in place.  Behavioural and Etiquette Guidelines for Organisation Managing staff who participate in social networks. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government,
Use active verbs and clear subjects (not ‘several' but ‘three', not ‘somewhere' but ‘in the Maritime region of Canada ' Make every sentence useful, no blabla Explain abbreviations before including them Help the editor by using the format (style sheet) journals prescribe Write the first draft without hesitation, editing comes afterwards Guidelines on figures and tables: http://www.sfedit.net/tabfig.pdf Step 1: references – always start with the literature/research that is already out there The references are the backbone
On the issue of whether or not employee social media guidelines are necessary, I tend to believe that nothing new needs to be spelled out--behave in social media as you would in other professional arenas. So back to the question of guidelines for the use of social media. Do we need special social media guidelines for employees? I've written before about some of my thoughts regarding the responsible use of social media and whether or not we can count on people do the right thing when it comes to blogs and Facebook and Twitter.  In general I tend to believe that if you can't
Tags: integrated develpment environment my top 25 e-learning blogs instructional design usability guidelines UA As discussed in yesterday's post, here are my Top 25 blogs for 2008. Hopefully there's enough detail, laid out in a usable fashion, to encourage you to try out a few of the links. Blog... Blog... The
Social Media Guidelines & Policies ...Tags: Tags: Elgg Social media guidelines Social media platfor A recent survey by OfficeTeam , a staffing service specializing in the placement of skilled administrative professionals, asked 150 randomly selected senior executives in the 1,000 largest companies in the US the following question: How comfortable would you feel about being ‘friended’ by the following individuals on Facebook: Your boss, your co-workers, people you manage, clients, vendors?
Apparently, even then, organizations have to tell their employees how to use social media : “These are the official guidelines for social media at Intel. If you’re an Intel employee or contractor creating or contributing to blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds, or any other kind of social media both on and off intel.com—these guidelines are for you.& You’d think that certain things are obvious and don’t need to be explained. For example, a company like Intel deals with pretty cutting edge technology.
The latest trends in mobile technology and content were given in speed tempo at the conference future-of-mobile.com . There were a bunch of speakers (17!) who each got between 15 – 30 minutes and the format worked. In just one days time I got updated on some of the trends in mobile design and development.
Intel is working on a set of voluntary classes and guidelines to follow suit." If ANY company in the world was going to create useless guidelines this early in the life of a technology I should have known that it would be Intel. So, now corporations are creating guidelines for activities that can ONLY occur on your OWN machine on your OWN free time. IBM leads the way in utilizing SL within the corporation as a viable tool. IBM has embraced the possibilites of emerging technologies as a tool for internal employee productivity and development.
One of the barriers commonly cited during my presentations around eLearning 2.0 (use of Web 2.0 / social media for work and learning) is that organizations often have not established their policies or guidelines around the use of these tools. And most corporate guidelines out there around social media are fairly similar. I think Unfortunately, companies sticking their head in the sand doesn't do any good. Employees are using these things in some way.
After a lot of experiences, we came up with a few guidelines on audio: Script! Insert instructional activities to keep the students active and motivated If you know any other guidelines, please let me kno Click To Play There is nothing easy about making a presentation using your voice and some slides. You need to be able to keep the learner interested whith nothing but your voice.