Our office has been receiving numerous requests to help incorporate social media tools into a variety of communication and education projects. Our clients want help creating blogs, wikis, collaborative workspaces, and social networks. But we also have to be frank and point out that if you create a social networking space, there is no guarantee that it will be used. You can’t mandate that your audience “be social.”. In several recent cases we suggested our clients survey their intended audience before launching into social media. Are they toes-. MORE >>

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. Tweet This! MORE >>

Learning Circuit’s Big Question this month is &# How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?&# Find numerous people in IT who are already using social media and ask them to use the prototype. Communicating the value of social media and informal learning is far from an easy task and overcoming the challenges of getting management and staff on board differs with every organization…some are more open to it than others. Tags: Social Media Blogging Twitter Management buy-in. MORE >>

As I have been travelling east and west across the UK this week, I’ve been taking a look at Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers on my Kindle. Social media for trainers isn’t really aimed at people like me, even though I’m seriously engaged with social media and, at least some of the time, I qualify as being a trainer. It’s primary focus is on the classroom (or virtual classroom) instructor who wants to enrich their offering with social learning techniques but doesn’t know where to begin. reviews social mediawasn’t wrong. MORE >>

The way she build her course is a great example of combining several relevant Social media to enhance a course. Thanks to the great College20 community started by Eduardo Peirano, I could read a post by Alejandra Pickett that really blew my mind. If you are a member of the College20 community, feel free to immediately surf to her post. btw the membership is free and the community runs on ning.com software). As a way to support her learners, she used Jing, which I covered in a previous post , extensively. link] - podcasted interviews with online exemplar courses and faculty." MORE >>