Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

I had seen this paper ( Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems ) before, but Jay Cross's take on the implications of the paper in LMS, we hardly knew ye is interesting: LMS create a walled garden in an era when walls are falling down. Further, it causes us to think in LMS terms (course).

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InsiderHub

MARCH 30, 2015

Kenexa Learning Suite allows your people to use their mobile devices for a number of things, such as: Social software for business. Social learning management. Google apps for education – enhanced social learning capabilities and they contain many important security features. Content management and development.

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Social Learning Social LMS Solution 50

Learning with e's

JULY 16, 2009

Neil Selwyn and Lyndsay Grant are to be applauded for bringing together an excellent, very readable special issue of the journal which focuses on Learning and Social Software. The second stand out paper is by Neil Selwyn, who explores students' actual education related use of Facebook.

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Social Networks Wiki Social Network Facebook 77

Mindflash

JANUARY 20, 2011

Provide this list, and encourage people to use their local public libraries to get started. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software. Do you want people to learn new skills? Or buy some of these books and create a library in your company.

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Mindflash

JUNE 20, 2012

as a “system of Web technologies that provide collaboration, information sharing, and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.” collaboration is about making it easier for people to work together, whether using enterprise social software or quite simply getting people together in a room to talk through a problem.

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Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Authoring Tools Enterprise 93

CLO Magazine

APRIL 10, 2014

Often, a mixture of both models can provide the most effective support for organizational talent. Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs.

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Mentoring Coaching Companies Jive 62

Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The The Long Tail which tells us moving from providing best selling products to a wider spectrum of offerings gives an opportunity for larger, potentially more lucrative market overall, if you can service it cost effectively. This is important for things like Social Software Adoption. eLearning Technology.

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Long Tail eLearning 2.0 Corporate eLearning Portal 100

Training Industry

MAY 17, 2016

Phil Antonelli and John Lane wrote in the spring 2014 issue of “Training Industry Magazine” that “it’s as if social software was designed to support the key aspects of social learning theory.” Furthermore, social networking can provide easy access to experts when and where their assistance is needed.

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Social Networks Twitter Social Media Education 42

Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

The Social Web promotes collaboration Collaborative forms of learning are becoming increasingly popular methods of adult education, because they involve all students in the process of learning. MentorBlog: Connecting Students and their Mentors using Social Software. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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Wiki Web Social Education 77

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. But like Q2Learning , they aim to provide visibility into community activities.

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Social Networks Social Network KnowledgePlanet Mzinga 100

Learning with e's

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The adoption of free social software tools has raised questions over corporate branding, security and privacy issues, and legal requirements. Tags: student learning e-learning JISC Edupunk social software UCISA. Your views and experiences will be welcomed on this blog - post your comments here.

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Social Networks Outsource VLE Social Software 40

Ed App

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

An LMS provides “at-your-own-pace” learning, on-demand, via employees’ mobile phones. predict that by the end of this year (2021), the global social software and collaboration market will have increased by 17% from 2020. Tips on using your LMS for knowledge management. Unschedule training to increase knowledge management.

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Knowledge Management LMS Knowledge Virtual Classroom 52

Learning with e's

JULY 12, 2007

Are we providing relevant experiences and contexts, given that 'digital natives' speak with a different accent to 'digital immigrants'? We are the same age, both artistic (he produces a regular satirical cartoon for his national newspaper) and we both have similar ideas about social software and its importance for the future of education.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 14, 2008

Social software tools are overwhelming in number and scope, but applications are becoming friendlier and can be used to build communities. Scalability was an issue – providing training and support for 2500 teaching staff was difficult. When we are using social software, who needs protection? e-portfolios!).

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Tony Karrer

AUGUST 25, 2010

Technical Approaches and Case Studies for Sales eLearning Sales Team Portal for Content and Expert Access - eLearning Technology , October 12, 2009 I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal.

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Blended Learning Sales Case Study Diversity Training 173

Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Encourage experimentation, delegate stretch assignments, provide opportunities to apply new skills in real situations, involve people in challenging projects, and rotate assignments. They need to provide informal feedback and work debriefs. Social software facilitates conversation.

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Compliance Training Social Networks Jive Yammer 62

Mindflash

JANUARY 24, 2011

implementations generally use a combination of social software and collaborative technologies like blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, social networking and wikis. Enterprise 2.0 : Enterprise 2.0 is the strategic integration of Web 2.0 technologies into an enterprise’s intranet, extranet and business processes.

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Enterprise 2.0 Alternatives Groupware Social Networks 68

Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A particular emphasis on Web Enhanced Learning (WEL) approaches will be made and strategies for university-wide adoption of social software (Web 2.0) WEL provides a flexibility of pace and space that was previously unattainable. tools and services will be presented. This is human nature.

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Social Networks Authoring Tools Social Network Web 74

Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

She argued from a similar perspective, in a very much 'wait and see', don't 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' stance: "Designed for learning, they keep everything in one place and provide for a variety of ways to teach and learn, at a variety of levels of expertise.

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Wiki VLE Skype Social Software 45

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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KM Social Networks Authoring Tools Case Study 38

E-Learning Acupuncture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Some have extended the discussion to the concept of understanding and there was a very interesting discussion on how knowledge or learning can take place in a ‘non-human appliance’ – be it social software or a robot! The topics that appeared made for quite a philosophical week in the course. Note: image attribution here.

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Cornerstone eBook Social Software Brain 40

Janet Clarey

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Frankly, some buyers fear that social software makes it more difficult to communicate, not less. They see social software as the purview of co-eds, gamers and nerds. In fact, they believe social software makes controlling a message or providing a consistent set of instructions impossible.

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Meridian Social Networks Cornerstone OnDemand Social Media 36

Learning with e's

JUNE 26, 2009

Interest is growing about how social software tools can provide added value to the learning process, and this is reflected in the growing literature on the topic. Blogs can encourage greater reflection on learning and enable students to enter into dialogue on specific topics (Kop, 2007).

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Learning with e's

DECEMBER 11, 2007

By weaving 'evidence based practice' into each chapter, the book will provide extensive guidance, practical advice and insights into working in the 'digital classroom' for all primary and secondary school teachers."

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Classroom Digital Social Software Project 40

Learning with e's

APRIL 7, 2008

Tomorrow I'm in Bristol on the invitation of the JISC to present two papers reporting on recent research we have been doing on social software at their regional support centre conference. Third comes Explanation - here they describe in deeper terms their ideas and provide other group members with more detail.

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Wiki Activities Cognitive Social Software 40

Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 23, 2006

The use of social software (Web 2.0) Steps to provide more structure to informal learning. A learner who is connected to other learners, experts and information services can tap into a widened pool of resources that can vastly enhance their capabilities and understanding. Includes podcast and PDF.

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Case Study Authoring Tools Knowledge News 32

Trivantis

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

While Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn lead the way as some of the most popular social networks, the informal, public nature of these outlets does not necessarily meet the needs of working professionals operating within businesses and corporations. In fact, according to a McKinsey survey, 75% of companies are integrating web 2.0

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IBM Lectora Social Networks Social Learning 40

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Cheap, simple conferencing tools let workers meet wherever there’s an online connection. Presence-awareness systems route calls to people wherever they are now, not where they used to be.

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Social Networks Wiki IBM Metrics 40

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MARCH 30, 2009

Jay Cross posted an interesting story this morning about his reply to this email question, "How are people using social software to support learning?" We need to stop thinking of social networking as something bright new and shiny. How come nobody asks the same social networking question of traditional universities?

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Social Networks Teach Social Network Network 36

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2009

This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using social software to support learning?” Conferences have traditionally provided foundation knowledge for instructional designers, trainers, CLOs, and others in the field. In these explosive times, I’d like to see more of all forms of learning. Too much technology.

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Informal Learning Informal Instructional Design Blogging 38

Janet Clarey

JANUARY 23, 2009

By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. This week’s featured system is OutStart.

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Outstart Cornerstone OnDemand Social Media Brandon Hall 36

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. Mzinga is going a different direction focusing on collaboration and social media capabilities. I'm not sure I buy what some of the other LMS vendors are providing around social software.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 109

Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

. “Given how successful Facebook and other social experiences are on the consumer Web, why wouldn’t every organization flock to this vision of agile, spontaneous, transparent, and people-centered corporate collaboration? The explosion of social software tools is a source of great innovation, but also a lot of confusion.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Resources 196

Tony Karrer

APRIL 7, 2010

My contention (as expressed in LMS and Social Learning ) is that most of the vendors are getting this wrong. Instead of looking at providing tightly coupled Social Learning Tools, they should instead be looking at how their offering can integrate or leverage Enterprise 2.0 Or should they be separated? Adoption - What's the PU?

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Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise Social Learning SharePoint 104

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The question you have to face is not whether or not the university needs to provide the social networks that can supplement our educational offering whille at the same time bringing us together to operate more effectively. Most students, faculty, and administraters use social networks extensively outside of school.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 79

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But virtually all the evidence I’ve seen over the years convinces me that people (whether employees, partners, or customers) can be trusted, and do predominantly use the new social software platforms in ways that provide benefit and credit to the companies that establish them.

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Enterprise 2.0 Harassment Training Firewalls Sun 50