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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Why is networking so important anyway? People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. So big deal, you say.

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Supporting workplace learning in the network era is more than delivering courses through a LMS

Jane Hart

. “It takes much more than courses delivered through a learning management system to support workplace learning in the network era.” People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues, will be an asset to any work team.

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Why your Enterprise Social Network is your most valuable social learning platform

Jane Hart

Social learning is a natural everyday phenomenon; simply put, we learn from our colleagues as we work with them. For this reason the new enterprise social platforms (like Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) that underpin social collaboration are your most valuable social learning platforms.

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To optimize your learning, optimize your networks

Jay Cross

The Internet Time Alliance has been brainstorming models of learning networks. Harold recently posted this model: Workers collaborate in Project Teams to get the job done. People cooperate in External Networks to meet a shared goal. These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., research chemists).

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Clear out the tumbleweed

Jane Hart

During my recent presentation at WOLCE on embedding learning in the flow of work, I talked about how leading L&D departments are making use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) to support workplace learning in all its forms – both formal learning activities as well as helping work teams share their knowledge and experiences with one [.].

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3 – L&D roles to support learning at work

Jane Hart

Coordinating content and campaigns, but also small events for team discussion and innovation as well as large-scale cross-organisational learning and networking events. Facilitating roles. Advising roles. c) helping to address individual learning and performance problems.

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Detailing the Coherent Organization

Clark Quinn

I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. And in Social Networks I had put: share, contribute, listen, care, interact, and discuss values. Within each were separate elements.