It’s shaping up to be something pretty special, basically a half-day workshop on social learning and the use of social media / networking within overall learning strategy. Bill Cava of Ektron is covering the basic history of social media and networking.  Ill be introducing social learning models, drawing on the work of Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, and of course my own stuff.  Those of you who live in the New England area and are interested in social learning should really think about attending.  I’m the second presenter.  MORE >>

Say you were looking to find some news about Mzinga’s Social Learning Suite.  Tags: Elearning Social Learning Social Media Social Network Analysis Talent Management Wisdom of Crowds For some time now, I’ve been aware of a couple of projects that Tony Karrer has put together:  eLearning Learning and HR Tech Central.  On the surface, it may seem that these sites are just rollups of the blogs of experts within their repsective industries.  But they are so much more than that. For one thing, these sites are searchable and filterable.  MORE >>

Yet, on the learning side, we know from research that 80% of the knowledge and skills people use everyday on the job comes from informal and social learning, not from the formal stuff we have made. Often the most critical “connectors&# or information channels in an organization are the folks at the lowest level of the org, including administrative folks and secretaries, because our organizational networks are too silo’ed, too fragmented, and too hierarchical. Last year, we decided to go full bore at social learning, and we got some serious pushback from clients.  MORE >>

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Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. Increasingly, learning is migrating from events (think “workshop&# ) to processes (think “social learning&# ). We already know many ways to make networks more effective. For example, take one aspect of a purposeful enterprise network, profiling. Social networks are inevitable in enterprise. Social networks are like telephones. Network analysis. MORE >>