Saffron Interactive

JUNE 22, 2012

A couple of months back I made the decision to delete my LinkedIn profile, a decision greeted with incredulity from all quarters. By “one”, Tom was referring to LinkedIn’s classification as a “social media” platform, lumped in with Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and the rest.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Earlier this week, I attended a Twitter Camp billed Twitter is not for dummies. I had the privilege of facilitating one of the breakout sessions, which focused on the business applications of Twitter. In a nutshell, I see the business applications of Twitter falling into three main categories: 1.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 24, 2010

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources.

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Infopro Learning

MARCH 12, 2015

The points listed below facilitate better and faster Change Management strategies through social media: Involve and Engage Employees. Social media facilitates free flow of information in multiple directions. Short nuggets of information are easily shared via microblogging to engage employees in the change program.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

MARCH 4, 2012

What is Yammer? Yammer is booming, especially in the Nederland within Europe. Many companies have started their Yammer groups for rapid internal exchange. If you don't know Yammer: Yammer is kind of Twitter (micro-blogging) service which can be used within organisation, so it is not public like on Twitter.

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Challenge to Learn

APRIL 14, 2011

As any type of informal learning you can’t organize this, but you can facilitate this. A tool that could support you in this is Yammer. It is a Twitter-like tool where you can post tweets, but there are some differences with Twitter. You can have longer messages than Twitter and include files and links.

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Allison Rossett

JULY 17, 2012

A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. RSS readers (i.e.,

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Allison Rossett

JULY 17, 2012

A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). There are two main types of tools for building a Professional Learning Network: information aggregation and social media connection. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. RSS readers (i.e.,

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Mindflash

MAY 13, 2013

On Thursday, May 9, Mindflash hosted a webinar to discuss how Yammer uses Mindflash to conduct training. It was a very informative webinar, and I thought I would recap some of the highlights so you can learn how to use Mindflash and Yammer together to develop and deliver training in your organization. What Yammer Found.

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Challenge to Learn

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

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. I don’t like it at all.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 24, 2011

Collaborative sharing and commenting on information. Social Bookmarking. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. Good for getting information from a multitude of experts on a topic in a conversational format.

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Upside Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Originally built as a software concept, the Android app called “Recongnizr&# is a mobile prototype that allows you to use your phone in order to “see&# who a person is and what web services and social networks they’re connected to. Relevance in Twitter – Feedtrace picks content that is relevant to you from Twitter.

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Marcia Conner

MARCH 28, 2013

Twitter - A commercially available microsharing tool full of short bursts of information allowing you to learn quickly from people around the globe. Take a look at my primary twitter account @marciamarcia if you’d like to see how I use twitter to share and learn from others. I learn from it every day!

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 22, 2011

We also see it in twitter (see Twitter for Learning ). While Twitter is asynchronous, it's not easily used as other kinds of tools for discussion. However, I've struggled with the problem of destinations vs. social networks and the spread of conversation (see Forums vs. Social Networks ).

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 30, 2011

Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. We also use tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media. In a lot of cases, we are using internal corporate social media tools to collaborate. By Dean Hawkinson. 3-- Create an Alumni group.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2015

While your systems may vary, your results should be sources for you to find information, present yourself in your various communities, and to share your thoughts. Facebook, is for me, the place I be me. I can see a B2C company using Facebook, but that’s not me, so it’s not a biz place. Clark Quinn, not Quinnovation.

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InsiderHub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

However, the application of social learning is slow, and may not even take off at all, over the long term. What is social learning, and will we see more of it in coming years? In a nutshell, social learning takes concepts from popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and applies them to workplaces.

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CLO Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Thanks to the proliferation of technology-fueled information, effective leaders need to be able to connect with people in multiple, real and personal ways. For instance, because of the proliferation of technology, leaders have access to more information today than ever before. However, that does not mean they are better informed.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 3, 2011

The question of the month #LCBQ is: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning and performance support initiatives have the desired impact or if they achieve the desired results? Therefore if we want to measure the impact of learning (formal or informal) we need to measure that impact.

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OpenSesame

JANUARY 24, 2011

Not just because it’s part of my job to use it, but because social networks make it easy to surround myself with new ideas, great information and useful resources. In this day and age of doing more with less, social networks enable the (free) creation of a strong personal learning network. Facebook.

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OpenSesame

APRIL 7, 2011

Here are some of the tried and true apps for information sharing, collaboration, social networking and staying organized: Evernote and other note-taking apps that sync information among all of your devices, making it easy to track your to-do list, add photos, clip webpages and share information with your colleagues.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2009

Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work. Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party.

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OpenSesame

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Social learning is knowledge acquisition that occurs in communication between people. Not just the act of using social media to ask a question – but the act of communicating with peers, colleagues and the larger world to seek information. The tools for creating those workplace social networks are almost infinite.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 12, 2014

As learning in the workplace becomes increasingly informal, the motivation of employees to drive their own development becomes increasingly pivotal to their performance. My poll results from Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector are somewhat enlightening. This is a point that I fear many of our peers fail to grasp.

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Jane Hart

JUNE 1, 2011

First of all, although I had been a regular, if not a daily blogger, I found that I was spending more and more time sharing resources and links in Twitter that I didn’t have time to do my daily posts. So I decided to try an experiment and that was to use the Twitter Tools plugin in WordPress to create a daily digest of my tweets.

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Mindflash

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Teaching Formally vs. Informally. People tend to have a preference for formal learning (instructor-directed) or informal learning (experiential, self-directed, impromptu learning). The LMS should not force designers to choose formal over informal learning—both should be supported. What features in the modern LMS support it?

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 26, 2009

1) Two issues that come up, at least in the world of training in a government environment, is that of a) security of information, and b) control of the information given to the learner to make sure it is accurate. Security of the information is something that hopefully your IT organization is already dealing with.

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MobileTrain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

When learning for the first time When you want to learn more New social learning tools can make the learning journey more efficient and effective as they enable agile and versatile learning through Social Apps such as Yammer, Twitter or ESNs. However, launching an Enterprise Social Network will not make the culture shift.

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Rob Hubbard

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I get nul points; no poxy bit of paper; no recognition for the time lost, opportunity cost and not even a chance to go back in and waste another couple of hours of my life because of error x2032 – as if I’m supposed to know what to do with that bit of information f%$H, f%!£, Online collaboration.

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The eLearning Coach

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Category: Social Networking Platform. Listing is alphabetical.).

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mLearning Trends

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Information Access. In many cases, learning while mobile may not be about assigned content at all and be much more about providing just-in-time access to a variety of on-demand resources and reference materials which can be read and mined for relevant information at the time of need. Social Networking.

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OpenSesame

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Diigo – Online information management for the highlighter and sticky note type. build your personal learning network? Twitter – What would we do without it? Not on Twitter yet? LinkedIn – Facebook for careerists, with better conversation. Ning – Don’t like Facebook? Still free!

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OpenSesame

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Getting “on Twitter” is just the first step. To make the most of Twitter for professional development and learning, you need to build a network of people with shared interests, unique experience and insights to network with and learn from. Still not on Twitter? Still not on Twitter? Tony Karrer ?(@tonykarrer)

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Twitter, Yammer), wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. Learning leaders will be more focused on relevancy of information. Of course, you can’t look at learning in 2011 without mentioning mobile learning.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 29, 2009

For example, if you build something that integrates with Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you can integrate with Facebook, Twitter, or similar products and you have some kind of viral aspect, then that could make you more interesting. But interesting market entry can also be things like the strategy that Yammer took.

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OpenSesame

JULY 27, 2011

A community approach to learning is the opposite of traditional one-way information distribution models. You will find, create and share the most relevant information while building connections between your community members. You’ll introduce people who can share information to one another. Be the icebreaker.

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From the Coleface

MARCH 13, 2012

Social media includes technologies like Linkedin, Twitter, Yammer; a list which is constantly evolving and expanding. In broad terms the answer “what should L&D do about/ with Social Learning” question seems to depend on whether it’s informal or formal social learning we’re dealing with.

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