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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. Properly d.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Learning Gets Social by Tony Bingham: Karie Willyerd, vice president and chief learning officer for Sun Microsystems explains the huge opportunity the profession has in informal learning: “One of the things that has happened is that we have focused so much on the 10 percent [formal learning] that we abdicated the 70 percent [informal learning].

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

Jane Hart

LEARNING IN A SOCIAL BUSINESS. E-Learning. Social Learning. Collaborative Working & Learning. e-learning/ OJT. Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Informal learning. Social learning. (automation). innovation).

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The 70:20:10 L&D Model for Developing a High-Performing Workforce

Learnnovators

It also provides a framework for improving and extending traditional training and learning into the workplace where: ‘70’ refers to ‘workplace learning’ and ‘performance support’. ‘20’ 20’ refers to ‘social learning’ (including informal coaching and mentoring). ‘10’ 10’ refers to ‘structured learning’.

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THE 70:20:10 L&D MODEL FOR DEVELOPING A HIGH-PERFORMING WORKFORCE

Learnnovators

It also provides a framework for improving and extending traditional training and learning into the workplace where: ‘70’ refers to ‘workplace learning’ and ‘performance support’. ‘20’ 20’ refers to ‘social learning’ (including informal coaching and mentoring). ‘10’ 10’ refers to ‘structured learning’.

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. To provide a community for learning professionals. To provide a collaborative learning environment among cross-functional groups. For knowledge management.

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Pick of the Month: April 2012

Jane Hart

“Current educational practices that have a set curriculum, norm or standards based assessments and prescribed lesson agendas are often misaligned with an orientation that celebrates difference in learners and learning (Mentis, Quinn, & Ryba, 2005, as cited in Mentis, 2007). Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) skills.