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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. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve.

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Evaluating Training – Capturing the Benefits Aspect of ROI

Obsidian Learning

Return on investment (ROI) is a quantification of the relation between the benefits of a program and its costs [benefit-cost ratio (BCR)]. Impact objectives should align with the gap or problem that exists at an organizational level instead of an individual level. Calculating ROI. Reduced customer complaints and returns.

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Everything’s Coming Up Networks (except learning)

Jay Cross

Solving problems and making progress require continuous learning. I wrote about it in Informal Learning in 2005: ENGINEERING THE INDIVIDUAL’S LEARNING NETWORK. Cultivators of learning environments can borrow from network engineers, focusing on such things as: • Improving signal-to-noise ratio. Networks were made for learning.

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APUSH Quarterly Ch 8-11 (2nd Quarter)

ProProfs

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