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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. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.

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Building a Performance Ecosystem

CLO Magazine

Social knowledge management consultant Harold Jarche suggests there are multiple layers, from collaborating in work teams, to collective learning in communities of practice, to cooperative learning with peers and friends in our networks (Figure 1). The picture is richer than just ROI.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Kirkpatrick levels, Gagne, kinesthetic) when talking to executives. Knowledge management may be two words, but it’s a single concept. Knowledge is inherently unmanageable. It’s better to talk about cost/benefit analysis or meeting specific goals than to speak of ROI. That concept is broken.