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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. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? 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

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Professionals immeresed in communities of practice have a larger zone of proximal development.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 11/06/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Characteristics of Formal and Informal Learning Episodes - Learning Circuits. Tough discovered that within each informal learning episode (where the primary motivation is to gain and retain certain knowledge and skill on a task or thing), the average learner interacts with an average of 10 people.

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Training Must Swim to the Current to Survive

Living in Learning

We have to break out of the eddy of traditional training and get out into the current of work to facilitate learning in the flow of work context. Josh also shared that his company’s research showed a dramatic increase in the use of informal learning. Granted it was 2005, but man! This is why I used the word “shocking”.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Did You Know: knol = a unit of knowledge?

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « New Attempt at Conference Polls | Main | Two Very Different Views of Publishing (heres a hint.I » January 09, 2008 Did You Know: knol = a unit of knowledge? Tell them that Google has now defined a knol as a "unit of knowledge."

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LMSs that kick ass - OutStart

Janet Clarey

By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. Tags: Social Media LMS Brandon Hall kick-ass. Thanks Jeff!

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using the Company as the Classroom" (Business Week)

Mark Oehlert

Despite this investment, the reality is that training and coursework account for only a small percentage—around 10%, according to the CCL studies—of the knowledge that managers and executives need in order to develop critical skills." If you find something, just tag it with kurt+lewin to add it to the mix. From the land of Huh?