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10 LinkedIn Groups for IT Professionals

OpenSesame

You’ve updated your profile, added connections, followed companies, and garnered some endorsements and recommendations – what’s left for you to make the most of LinkedIn? We’ve scoured the thousands of groups for IT professionals on LinkedIn and chose 10 groups that best represent the diversity of the IT community. .

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Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

At the moment I’m celebrating some, online, 10 th anniversaries – in October 2008 I started blogging , I joined LinkedIn in November 2008 and I joined Twitter in January 2009. When I started blogging and tweeting, and connecting on LinkedIn, I was all about the network and conversations.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

As a communication specialist, what are your thoughts on using storytelling as a tool for effective PR? Other trends noted in the Report – as they relate to the larger national markets for online learning technologies – include: In the four years since 2008/09, corporate training expenditure fell.

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Adopt Independent Lifelong Learning to Meet Workplace Challenges - Tip #189

Vignettes Learning

The Stats In a report by America’s Council of Economic Advisers, workers in the country are steadily receiving fewer paid-for or on-the-job training between 1996 and 2008. Here are the details. And, it’s the same situation across the pond: British workers also received less training around the same year range. Skills obsolescence.

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From Corporate Training in a Company to Independent Course Creator with Kurt Von Ahnen from Mañana No Mas

LifterLMS

In 2008 when the economy in the U.S. Then, other people are suspension specialists. Other people are electricians or electronic specialists. I actually had two employees write recommendations on my LinkedIn page. Kurt Von Ahnen: In the power sports field, technician has to do it all. I had never seen that before.