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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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The Blog Evolved

The Learning Circuits

After nearly a decade and 500+ posts, we are shuttering the Learning Circuits Blog and posting exclusively on the ASTD Learning Technologies Blog. Well, ASTD’s website redesign in April enabled us to publish blogs through our own Communities of Practice—rather than externally house them.

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Jay’s blogs fork

Jay Cross

Ten years ago I was writing several daily blogs: In 2001, these joined together to become the Internet Time Blog, one of the earliest blogs about learning: Five years later, writing my book on Informal Learning, I added a blog of the same name. That left me with two nearly indistinguishable blogs.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): HHS and Federal Government Blogs

Mark Oehlert

Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think" (WIRED) | Main | The e-Learning Guilds Call for Presenters at DevLearn 2008 » May 14, 2008 HHS and Federal Government Blogs Did you know that the Secretary for Health and Human Services has a blog ? federal government blogs here. of Transportation blogs.

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Top 100 Learning Game Resources

Upside Learning

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. So here they are – a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. What Makes a Learning Game? Serious Games Blog. Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009.

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Top 100 Learning Game Resources

Upside Learning

I’d been mulling posting these to the blog. So here they are - a Top 100 Learning Game Resource list. If you are already developing learning games, these links will broaden your horizons, as they did mine. What Makes a Learning Game? Serious Games Blog. Digital games and learning gains (PDF), June 17, 2009.

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Research Shows Companies Should Encourage Social Learning

TOPYX LMS

Employees Learn Best When They Learn Informally. Informal learning is the polar opposite of formal learning. In the article What Is Informal Learning? , Jay Cross explained, “ Informal learning is the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way most people learn to do their jobs.