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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Learning or professional communities are “healthy” and beneficial to the organization when its members are intrinsically motivated to participate and contribute. Members of a learning community must have a desire to network, collaborate, and share information or the community will not thrive and will not drive business value. When I talk with organizational leaders about creating healthy learning communities I am What will intrinsically motivate community members? Which types of rewards are cost-effective?
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Friday, November 13, 2009
I use the internal “knowledge management” and “learning management” systems. My organization deployed a “expert locator” and “social networking” system in order to help employees quickly find and leverage in-house expertise but these systems provide a half baked solution. Activities and interactions that occur in blogs, wikis and social networks naturally provide the cues that are missing from current expert locator systems.
Why is it so difficult to quickly find someone in my organization to answer a pressing question, provide advice about a procedure, explain how to use some software, or tell me where to find an expert, course, or document?
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
A podcast about the BT Dare2Share social learning project.
next generation learning @ work
Tagged: learning, social learning
...Tags: Tags: My Podcasts learning20 social learning learnin
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system. There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations.
We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System” appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
The Business Case for Social Learning
Read the article (by clicking on the URL above) to see how Social Learning will generate better performance from the workforce, a business case from BT, and an approach for bringing Social Learning to your organization.
...Tags: Tags: Ideas social learnin Have you heard of the “capability recession?” 8221; For many organizations, the economic downturn is having a noticeably negative effect on workforce productivity, engagement and performance. Job
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
I created this 16 minute social learning primer (podcast) to address some of the frequently asked questions and concerns about social learning, and to share some of my insights and suggestions gained from my experience helping client organizations with their social learning agendas.
Tagged: learning, social learning, social media, social networking
...Tags: I hope you find this primer useful. Please
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Follow this link to read about BT’s experience with social learning. Yours truly Peter Butler (Head of Learning BT Group) is presenting this case study at the IMPACT 2009 conference (April - Saint Petersburg, Fl).
approaches and technologies that could address the learning and development challenge with a desire to take one forward. Yours truly was involved with this project - read my quote in the case study. Peter http://www.towardsmaturity.org/article/2009/03/20/bt-dares-share/
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning. Such Such companies have come to realize that key to their success are productive and vibrant learning communities.
How healthy are your learning communities……really? Old ways of measuring the productivity and success of a learning community were appropriate for traditional, linear kinds of training, but not for more advanced, collaborative (or social) learning environments.
Would you like
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Ever since i started my studies in HRD i’m interested in social forms of learning, communities of practice are one of them. Especially with the growing attention towards the use of networked technologies like elgg, mahara, twitter and yammer for facilitating learning processes i felt the need to emerge myself deeper in the theory of community of practice (CoP). My customers at Stoas Learning, often come to me from a technological After being “a friend” and lurking for a while, i became a full (paying) member of the CP Square (CP2) community. CP
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Ross Dawson discusses a Gartner report on social software, looking at some particular forecasts for the next three to five years out:
20% of businesses using social media instead of e-mail by 2014
20% of businesses will use social network analysis by 2015
50% of businesses using activity streams, such as micro-blogging, by 2012
70-95% of IT dominated social media initiatives will fail through to 2012
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Getting good at social interactions is vital for social learning.
We live in a social world. To assist with their learning in how to do design. Meta-learning is learning about learning. Every action taken that involves more than one person arises from conversation that generates, coordinates, and reflects those actions. At best, those group actions serve the well-being of the whole: not just the whole of a particular organization, but the whole of life.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
I am often asked by business leaders to describe what we intend to measure in order to understand, manage, and improve the networked (or social) learning eco-system. There is interest in knowing how we will prove networked learning, turn potential chaos into something that is more certain and efficient, and to get some kind of “history” about the learning and development for individuals and organizations.
We do not want to take a traditional ‘Learning Management System” appraoch and treat networked learning as formal training.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Jones and I are doing a session at Training 2010 titled Defining Your Social Learning Strategy . As As prep for this, we’ve put together a comprehensive checklist of Social Learning Strategy topics that learning professionals and executives should consider when thinking through their objectives and plans. Introduction to Social Learning Strategies
Kevin D. Here is a link to the doc, but if you would prefer to read it in-line, the full body of the doc is below. Let
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
I've just completed the third in a series of 3 articles for Inside Learning Technologies magazine . The series looks at three different ways of creating a social learning environment - for free or at low cost:
Part 1 - Using free
public social media tools ,
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2009 0160; The first two appeared in the November and December editions, the third will appear in the Conference Edition in January - but you can preview it here.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
It's been talked about for years, but 'Social Learning' is more recently becoming the big buzz word in learning, and you should probably pay attention because it's being pegged as the next generation of eLearning (heavily debated of course, as is everything in learning). My definition of 'social learning' as I understand it is learning that takes place through the use of a collection of web-based tools like wikis, blogs, and social networks which build community and conversation around a topic encouraging a collaborative knowledge sharing environment.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). Did I miss anything?) We’ve recently seen LMSs shift to include more functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome.
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