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. Social media such as blogs 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?

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

Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning.  Such 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. Tagged: learning, learning community, social learning Such companies have come to realize that key to their success are productive and vibrant learning communities. How healthy are your learning communities……really? 

10 ways universities (should) share information using social media Continuing my reading and searching on QR Codes, and before I start getting into how I think we can use them in learning, education and HE Institutions, etc, I think it’s worth looking into how you can create them, how you read them, and some other interesting facts. Creating your QR Code There

I’ve recently had occasion to try to conceptualize some pretty tricky activities in our work – how we create a business case, how we “do” instructional design, how to use social media for learning, how we think about questioning in the context of consulting… What I have been able to do, I think, is craft solid explanations that are very practical and easy to understand.  I am a card-carrying member of the scholar-practitioner special interest group in the Academy of Human Resource Development and a big advocate of grounding my everyday work in the research and theoretical underpinnings of our field. 

I'm also currently working on an "Orchestration" series that addresses Chapter 5 in our book about orchestrating your social media activities . By the way, I had a great local meetup today with a group of folks in a local social media group called the Social Media Mastermind group, Orange County (SMMOC) . Below is one of the tutorials I posted in the Success Modules topic series on MindBridj . This one helps some of our members --and at least three of my friends who specifically asked for it--to modify their profile on Twitter.