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

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. 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. Properly d.

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Top 3 Questions to Ask Before Choosing eLearning for Your Association

Association eLearning

In fact, according to a Department of Labor study focused on adult learners, “enrollment in courses delivered entirely online increased by nearly 250 percent in the three years from 2002 to 2005.” When she is not counting down to "cake time", Amy is busy meeting with folks at national conferences and sharing her love for eLearning.

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Creating Passionate Learners 2005 = same in 2011

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

2005 or 2006, the name Kathy Sierra is probably new to you. moehlert tweeted a reminder of an IT Conversations recording of her keynote from the Tools of Change conference (2/16/2011). moehlert tweeted a reminder of an IT Conversations recording of her keynote from the Tools of Change conference (2/16/2011). Kathy Sierra said.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

Lessig, 2005, p. Fire And Brimstone (>92,000 views, 11 comments) I wrote this post in a beach hotel just outside Lisbon, Portugal where I was an invited speaker at a conference. The post went viral (especially on Facebook) and received more than 40,000 views in the first week of posting. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with e's

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. Steve: Terry, thank you very much.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Facebook on iPhone (Inside Facebook)

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Reflections from Adaptive Paths UX Week 2007 | Main | Quote of the Day: Jenkins on Convergence » August 28, 2007 Facebook on iPhone (Inside Facebook) This story from Inside Facebook hippedme to what has to be one of the slickest apps on the iPhone.

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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business

Jane Hart

A Social Business isn’t just a company that has a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Courses on e-learning course development, LMSs etc; Webinars/Conferences on Training, E-Learning, Learning Technologies. So whilst e-business is about automation, social business is about innovation. IBM describes it succinctly. “A automation).