I followed the link and found myself entranced by Mike VanDervort’s Confronting Social Media at Work.  It’s a great blog post that warns HR professionals about the need to get ready for the social media invasion.  Those Those who left comments about the post asked “how do you communicate the importance of social media to a leadership group that has no concept of its relevance in their personal or professional lives?&#   I get this type of question all the time.  Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team. Social Media in Plain English. MORE >>

At next week’s Learning Technologies Exhibition Saffron Interactive (Stand 33) will be demonstrating Saffron Share, a corporate social network, personal portfolio and community knowledge base for collaboration and ‘just-in-time’ learning. The product is based on the open source Elgg social networking engine. Essentially, it’s a Moodle approach to the corporate social network with clear benefits for global organisations with tens of thousands of learners.’. Events management to facilitate live training and social events. MORE >>

Today I ran a short session where I shared how I use social media to enhance my learning. I've blogged previous about this topic in the post Social Media for YOUR learning but now I've refined my thinking and developed a better presentation about this I thought I'd share my thinking again. I've started using it as my main bookmarking site. It took a bit of getting used to but its good if you want to group things and is certainly more visually appealing than a normal bookmarking service. Making sense of how I use social media to aid my learning is a tricky business. MORE >>

If, like me, you like the simplicity of information presented in graphical form (Infographic) then this might interest you: CMO’s Guide to the Social Media Landscape. With the impact of the (limited) list of social media outlets / social networks broken down into key marketing objectives, it wouldn’t take too much imagination to use the information for the education sector(s), and how the social network can be used for, and what impact it can have: Customer Information. Policies for Staff use of Social Media and Social Networks. MORE >>

This presentation should be of particular interest to educators for tips and tricks for using Social Media in education environment (Twitter, Facebook, blog, wiki, social bookmark, etc). SlideShare: Social Networking. Presentations eLearning iPod mLearning Mobile Learning Presentation Social Network Technology Twitter Web 2.0 MORE >>