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

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Summer Camp starts Monday 16 July

Jane Hart

Our Summer Camp provides an opportunity to learn with peers and gain some of the essential skills needed to support learning in the networked world. Be prepared for a more productive September with our Summer Camp. informal learning. social learning. mobile learning. We’ll be discussing.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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Mobile Learning: e-learningnext

ID Reflections

The importance of being connected to networks (both the hyperlinked and the human kind) to have access to information at the point-of-need 8. The emergent ones are those that are likely to have the greatest impact on Human Performance Improvement and Personal Knowledge Management.

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Mentoring Results

Clark Quinn

Expressed by my colleague was a concern that there was a conflict between&# (a) supporting someone’s learning and (b) being invested in the success of their work product&#. And I would think that the management is NOT directly invested in the product, only in the producer.

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The Pros and Cons of User Generated Content

Trivantis

But as more and more companies embrace informal learning, user generated content is going to pop up more often. Sign up for a free trial today and discover the benefits of user generated content and knowledge sharing! when you get negative feedback about a course? Well… What if you did just that? Cons of User Generated Content.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

learn from mistakes. create new products/services/offerings/markets/businesses. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. conduct useful research. experiment. create new processes. solve problems.

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