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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

From a personal perspective, networking builds new relationships through which you can share information, answer questions, and make new connections. People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. Keep contact information updated – yours and those in your network.

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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. After reading this, I started thinking about this new LinkedIn utility I recently installed. These tools give us a way to connect with people faster and more easily than ever before. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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What Makes Yammer Different?

eLearning Cyclops

I have started test driving Yammer. the training and development department can have its own separate group within the organization's Yammer network). Like LinkedIn, it allows one to view a member's employment and educational background, skills, interests, contact information, etc. Groups can be set-up (e.g.

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

Dashe & Thomson

by Paul on April 13, 2011 in Informal Learning , social learning Last week my girlfriend and I ate dinner at Darbar Indian Grill in Uptown Minneapolis with another couple (good food, but overpriced), and we got on the topic of surfing the net on the job. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

These streams can be fed by other tools like Twitter, Linkedin and Google reader and I love it. Zite will show you information based on keywords you give in. It also has a magazine like interface and the advantage is that you will get information from outside your standard network. You can browse through the blogs very fast.

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The workshop was quite successful as measured by the people who contacted me afterwards for more information, to buy my book or to ask whether they could share our test Yammer and test Ning with their colleagues. Some trainers were still at zero, a few were halfway, being a member of a few Linkedin groups and maybe on Facebook.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Collaborative sharing and commenting on information. Text-based messaging systems allow for quickly communicating with someone in a synchronous environment. Carrying on a conversation over time in a non-synchronous manner without limits to text size. Sharing information, interests and areas of focus. Online mentoring.