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Social networking is king

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Another principle that resonated with me was, in my own words: Social networking is king. Social networking has been around since the dawn of time. Simple: it’s a social network for people who are interested in scrapbooking and crafts. instructional design participatory culture social media.

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Transformers

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Next, I suggest we go social. Posting the video clip to the enterprise social network seeds a discussion, by which anyone and everyone can share their experiences and insights, and thus learn from one another. The consumption of content on the social network, for example, may be difficult to track and report.

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The foundations of innovation in L&D

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Another false idol to fall is the myth that all the information we need is at our fingertips. An enterprise social network covers the “in-betweens”, principally by empowering everyone to ask their own questions to the crowd, and to keep abreast of emergent knowledge in the moment.

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Open Learning Network vs Informal Learning Environment

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Mott’s blueprint is the Open Learning Network (OLN). Mine is the Informal Learning Environment (ILE). Within such a framework, any tool can securely interact with any other tool, passing user IDs and course and role information. It formalises the informal. We can have both.&#. Amen to that. The ILE recapped.

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The dawn of a new generation

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Beyond enterprise social networks – which are hardly universal and face substantial challenges of their own – UGC in the broader sense is beset by concerns about content quality, accountability, organisational culture, job security and power dynamics. OK, a missing link in this solution is a social forum.

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2011: A writer’s odyssey

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Social media. • Social media extremism. • 20 hot resources for customer-facing social media. • The big myth of social networking. • Foching up social media. . • Foching up social media. Informal learning. • Doctoring the Informal Learning Environment.

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Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector

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At the next tier down, informal support resources have some importance. In summary, then, we see that enterprise social networking is multifaceted. In the meantime, bear in mind that social forums grow organically. They must lead by example. There is no silver bullet.

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