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Yammer

Jay Cross

Yammer is like a private Twitter. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.

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The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list is revealed

Jane Hart

Although security and privacy concerns are preventing many organisations from making significant use of public social media tools, there does appear to be an increased interest this year in enterprise social networking and collaboration tools (viz Yammer and Sharepoint ).

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Open Office, Work Culture, and Productivity

The Performance Improvement Blog

Jason Feifer: I witness an inability to concentrate, lack of privacy, and absent sense of ownership--which is a problem given that I occupy this space for the bulk of my waking hours. Their differing views on the matter do an excellent job of identifying the issues involved in the open-office controversy.

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ASTD #TK11 – Opening Keynote Kara Swisher

Learning Visions

Yammer, Socialcast, Jive, etc. Once people can’t be anonymous, they stop saying bad/dumb things…) Privacy? No more retrograde person than the CTO in a company…they don’t want these changes. But these changes are coming. The Facebookization of the enterprise.” Training becomes a 24/7 things. People are getting blase about it.

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6 Ways to Use Interactive Technology in Your Curriculum Development Model

Hurix Digital

Google Drive, Edmodo, Yammer, Skype), and so on can improve the interactive learning process. We respect your privacy. For more information, check out our Privacy Policy. Incorporation of tools like an online whiteboard (e.g., Lucidspark, Microsoft Whiteboard), effective response systems (e.g., Drop us a Note.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

As Manjoo notes, some have expressed privacy concerns over Slack’s ability to archive employee chats. For example, a major oil and gas company uses Yammer for discussions during a webinar and as a “find the expert” tool (using Yammer profiles). That sounds good. And maybe (sometimes) not. What do you think?

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The Smart Worker : relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues

Jane Hart

And by that I don’t mean heavy-handed social media policies, but advice on privacy settings and common sense guidelines on having discussions in a public space. “ So another significant new role for L&D will be helping teams to set up their own communities and groups to support one another.