Julie Delazyn is a social media expert and journalist, she has turned the Questionmark blog ( [link] ) into one of the most widely read blogs in assessment. Here are her views on how SharePoint is helping change the way we blog: Social media and social networks have become interlaced with the way we share information as companies, as marketers and even as people.  It has given people a chance to become experts in their field by sharing information online and growing a readership that, if enthused, will retweet and Facebook your thoughts and articles. MORE >>

Thought leader interview with Jim Federico of Microsoft on how Microsoft use SharePoint internally for learning. How does Microsoft use SharePoint for learning? believe we’re the world’s largest SharePoint implementation. From a training perspective, we use SharePoint in a few interesting ways. We’re just wrapping up a project to build a SharePoint search experience for training. This is a really simple thing to do and I encourage all customers running SharePoint to consider doing the same. The list gets indexed by SharePoint once or twice a day. MORE >>

I attended an excellent session by Bill Finegan of GP Strategies at the Questionmark user conference last week. GP Strategies is a quoted company in the performance management, training/learning and consultancy space and one of their specialisms is deploying SharePoint for informal, social and workplace learning. Here is a summary of what Bill suggests are the six keys to success for leveraging SharePoint within a corporate learning environment. You are using SharePoint because you have a business need to solve, a business problem that you want the learning to solve. MORE >>

All are relevant to the theme of SharePoint and Assessments. love this presentation from John Lightfoot which talks about how SharePoint can be used to improve the benefits of training by keeping learners engaged and helping them on the job after training. SharePoint in Higher Education. This presentation by James Lappin dates back to 2009 but has some different thoughts on the use of SharePoint in Higher Education, much of it still relevant and some neat drawings. SharePoint in Higher Education from JamesLappin. ECOA 2012 from Questionmark. link]. MORE >>

Here are the slides from my presentation at the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin last week. The key message is that the way we learn in the workplace is changing rapidly with the 70+20+10 model of learning, and that SharePoint (with assessments) is a key enabler for formal and informal learning in the workplace. Measuring Social Learning in SharePoint with Assessments. View more presentations from Questionmark. Commentary Community 70+20+10 Berlin European SharePoint Conference Informal learning SharePoint Social learning MORE >>