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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

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Make Sure Stakeholders Understand the Potential Business Uses of the Technology My blog Tech Dimensions contains a series of posts about how blogs, wikis, RSS, Twitter, and other Social Media tools can be used to address business needs.

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The High Art of Reusability

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Try this.look at the diagram and imagine substituting in corporate or academic stuff: A research scientist's blog provides material for an idea which is then critiqued and expanded as it appears in a collaborative wiki. The scientists tweak their work based on the feedback and, again, post the changes to the collaborative wiki.

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Informal Learning: Tools for Informal Learning

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It explains some thoughts I have about informal learning as it relates to wikis, blogs, IM and RSS. Here is a whitepaper I wrote about informal learning. You can read it here. __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide

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A Pharmaceutical Leveraging Web 2.0 --In a Big Way

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For those of you who wonder about regulatory and legal issues, even Pfizer's ultra-cautious regulatory affairs group is using the wiki to generate ideas. According to one article, one clever thing that Pfizer did to promote the use of Pfizerpedia was to create a series of small slide shows to indicte how Pfizerpedia would work.

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Some Questions and Answers

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Since learning is a process, many people are beginning to understand the value of creating communities to foster the exchange of information and to use tools like blogs for capturing expert knowledge, wikis for collaboration and RSS feeds to help manage the overwhelming flow of data inundating employees in organizations and students in classes.

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Show Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for June

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Wikis Explained. Scroll down to the entry Airport Security, RSS Explained, Bluetooth Marketing and Updates __ Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide This can be used for many different training applications using the world of Second Life as a platform for creation of the learning.