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OCTOBER 1, 2015

It was social. Now, with the proliferation of new tools, music is becoming social again. Churches had pianos and organs, and communities had local gatherings of musicians both impromptu and planned, amateur and professional. People gathered together to listen and play. Songs you listen to can be auto-published by products like Spotify.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Many thanks to those who have preordered Social Media for Trainers or purchased it for Kindle. A challenge with writing a book about technologies—particularly those that are continually morphing and evolving – is keeping content as up-to-date as possible. Since the book went to press several things have changed: 1.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

I was delighted that the eLearning Guild invited me to write up the results of their ongoing "Social Media for Learning" report. Results showed great enthusiasm for using social media for learning, and widespread (83% of respondents!) belief that social media for learning was worthwhile.

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MARCH 2, 2012

Jane Hart and I got together to talk about social learning, social media, change management, and measuring engagement in online communities. Here's the recording : Her audio's not great so she let me do most of the talking. I didn't do anything to cause that-- I promise.

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JULY 27, 2010

Amazon has just added the "look inside" feature for Social Media for Trainers so be sure to go take a look! I'm offering daily tips and ideas on social media for trainers via Twitter @SoMeTrainers and weekly-ish tips via a Facebook page. Check "Where's Jane?" at right for my speaking schedule.

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MAY 23, 2011

So many organizations show interest in Twitter and other social tools, but then worry about making online conversations private, or locking them up inside the company's firewall. It's affordable & it will make biggest difference. I think last night's #blogchat is important for several reasons: 1.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

This month's Nuts and Bolts column is the first in a series updating ideas around using social media for learning. I'm looking especially at the rise of new tools for user-generated images and video: “L&D is great at creating and delivering content.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Summer 2010) Social Media in Training. But there are plenty of strategies for using Web 2.0 tools to support instruction as well as inform formative and summative evaluation. Ideas for other activities? San Francisco: Pfeiffer.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The Social Media for Trainers blog book tour begins this Thursday, September 2, with a kickoff post from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies' Jane Hart. Follow "Social Media for Trainers" on the book's Facebook page and on on Twitter @SoMe4Trainers (use #SoMe4Trainers). Is the book right for you?

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MARCH 3, 2012

3 Birds, One Stone Bird 1: I do lots of workshops on using social media for learning, and I struggle to help participants see the possibilities of using images rather than text-based approaches in their work. Thanks to email and discussion boards, we tend to fall into "comment here, post there, respond to that" kinds of interactions.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Thanks to everyone who's been following the blog book tour for Social Media for Trainers ! Stop 2 offered comments from Karl Kapp's Kapp Notes on the variety of activities available to workplace training practitioners wanting to extend and enhance their practice with social media tools. See the complete blog book tour schedule here.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

If you're there, join me Wednesday for a Morning Buzz session on social learning, on Thursday for breakout sessions "What Managers and Executives Need to Know About Social Learning" and, with Kevin Thorn "DesignBoarding: Leveraging Good Treatments for Your Content".

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MARCH 2, 2012

Some highlights: Social learning is learning with and from others by moving within one’s culture, workplace, and world. Social learning is how most of us learn most things: through living in our cultures and interacting with others there. It's excerpted here if you'd like to take look.

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MAY 5, 2015

In my social media workshops I find that participants struggle most with ideas for supporting serendipitous, accidental, and spinoff learning. This month's Nuts & Bolt's column offers tips for that. Among them? Be a curator & connector, encourage reflection, and put rocks in the path. We can’t schedule accidents.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Here’s a true story about physical rehab turned learning turned hobby turned community of practice turned two successful businesses, all via informal, social means. And all within six months." See this month's "Nuts & Bolts" column: [link]

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MARCH 14, 2011

My sessions: Monday, March 21: Foundations Intensive, "Evaluating eLearning" Tuesday: Certificate Program : "Better than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging eLearning with PowerPoint" Wednesday: "Social Media for Trainers" Thursday: ID Zone, "Social Media: Myths & Magic" And the closing "Ignite!"

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JULY 12, 2011

But I do know this, for sure: If tomorrow someone launched the Perfect Social Media Product, which was free, ridiculously easy to use, seamlessly integrated with every other need and tool, and solved every problem we had, then the day after tomorrow there would rise up a group of People Who Hate The Perfect Social Media Product.

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JUNE 11, 2013

It surfaces informal and social learning to help make it visible to the organization and and management, whereas often now it is only opaque." And: showing what we’re doing -- narrating our work in a public way -- work helps make learning more explicit. Join me today, June 11, 2 pm ET, for " Show Your Work ", a webcast hosted by ASTD.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Note: Social Media for Trainers has been out for several months now and I am interested in hearing what you've been trying. This month's "Nuts and Bolts" column for Learning Solutions Magazine focuses on eLearning resolutions for 2011 and features the definitive example of Clicky Clicky Bling Bling eLearning.

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JULY 21, 2015

Such is the nature of social learning. Other trees stand close nearby, contributing in ways that may not be direct, but with roots touching and supporting below the surface, not serving only as onlookers. See also my recent Learning Solutions Magazine piece on "Causing Serendipity".

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MAY 28, 2010

I think this is why it disturbs me to hear some people who are so dismissive of social media and online interactions and distant or "loose" connections. Through social media, especially Twitter, I have cultivated a network of smart, funny, interesting people who have never failed to come through when I asked for something.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Jane Hart weighed in with “social learning is being picked up by software vendors and marketers as the next solution-in-a-box, when it’s more of an approach and a cultural mind-set”. When "learning" started happening online, Training/L & D resisted and let elearning be co-opted by vendors and IT departments.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Take the initiative and work on changing how your organization works - don’t just sit there sulking, saying, “I wish we could do social media here, but we can’t even get on Facebook so there’s no use.” Bringing social media to your organization isn’t something that happens from 9-5.

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JULY 7, 2011

eLearning has evolved so much since 2001, from “CBT” and the early days of “distance education,” through virtual classrooms and virtual worlds to, now, the brave new frontier of handheld devices and mLearning, in an age with so much being created, shared, and curated through the new channels provided by social media.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Readers of Social Media for Trainers will appreciate the challenges of trying to keep print text updated as new approaches and ideas evolve. The ABC network site doesn't leave these episodes up long, and I fear readers in some countries outside the US will be unable to access the site.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Learning is Social Some of Thomas’s best lessons come from the farm’s resident work dog, Flicker the Amazing Border Collie. Learning is social. He wants to do this well and shows visible satisfaction and delight at performing better, often going back for another round even when the rest of us are taking a break.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

technologies and social networking strategies. ask yourself, if it's good enough for a president-elect to deliver messages and information via social media and Web 2.0 Here's what Karl said: ". tools.isn't it good enough for your learning and development department and your company to use these tools?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

It's a fast free-for-all organized around a theme, like instructional design, virtual worlds, social learning, or e-learning myths, structured around 3 general questions. The theme: Incorporating social media into learning events. Every Thursday evening there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

As a presenter at many of their events I love the conversations about how to put a new twist on a popular theme like social learning. Finally: I love that the eLearning Guild wants presenters to try new topics and new strategies. I do hope "Ukulele Learning" grabs hold of a few new players for us to join up with at future Guild events.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

I've just finished up the first draft of my latest book, Social Media for Trainers , due out from Pfeiffer in summer 2010. It's pretty much a quick explanation of some Web 2.0 tools (like Twitter & Facebook) with ideas and instructions for conducting specific training activities with each (see the post from November 9).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

All large-scale, multi-user communities and online social networks that rely on users to contribute content or build services share one property: most users don't participate very much. Often, they simply lurk in the background." See the whole article for ideas on ways of better equalizing participation.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

They exhibit more social cohesion: They are less prejudiced and are more likely to donate money and time. For instance, those with higher education levels tend to be healthier, as do their children, and they tend to live longer and see lower infant mortality. They are more likely to have longer marriages.

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APRIL 20, 2009

A 'social learning' theme keeps kicking dust in my direction, first when the TR-DEV Yahoo group folded (see post below from January 24), and again the other night. Clark Quinn, Marcia Conner, and others have begun a wonderful Thursday-night Twitter gathering (8pm EST; #lrnchat).

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JUNE 7, 2009

Many reports coming in on last week's ASTD International Conference and Expo -- in my world coming from instructional designers and trainers making use of technology and social media -- expressed surprise at the prevalence of attendees who, to quote Cammy Bean , are "Traditional training people for whom most of this eLearning stuff is kind of exotic (..)

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Experienced practitioners will likely be more interested in the information around informal and social learning as well as the excellent profiles of several successful learning architects. Another thing experienced people might need? Perhaps some new perspective on the place of learning in the learner’s world.

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JULY 4, 2009

Take a look at @slqotd (Social Learning Question of the Day): each weekday morning the moderators post a new question related to social learning, and any of the 800+ followers can chime in with a quick response, to the question or to one another.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Leveraging social tools and workplace communities, and encouraging people to show their work, can help to surface and spread solutions and to sustain application of new learning to the workplace.

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