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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

These precocious youths, born after or during the general advent of digital technology, have an inherent understanding of its concepts in a way that their forebears cannot hope to achieve. The result is a lost message, and a lost opportunity.

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It’s Time To Focus On Remote Workforce Management

WhatFix

Some of the more common challenges are: Inability to download files, communicate or collaborate – owing to lack of access to the right video conferencing tools, high-speed internet, instant messaging, or role-specific software. Feeling of being disconnected from the rest of the team – leading to loneliness and low morale.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

With the file open, you simply go to the sharing pane to grant Edit or View privileges, quickly find a colleague’s email address and presence information, and send an IM to begin working simultaneously. But, like most technology, you need to put in a bit of effort to get the most out of Skype. Image: Freepik , designed by Vectorarte.

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Set Yourself up for Productivity

Vitalyst

With the file open, you simply go to the sharing pane to grant Edit or View privileges, quickly find a colleague’s email address and presence information, and send an IM to begin working simultaneously. But, like most technology, you need to put in a bit of effort to get the most out of Skype.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

The use of instant messaging migrated from high school to corporate life. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. Unmanaged technologies introduce security risks.

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6 Effective Ways To Increase Employee Productivity

eFront

For all the improvements in communications, business IT, collaboration tools and technology in general, running a productive team remains as hard as it ever was. For any person-to-person communication that needs to be more “real time”, invest in an business-focused instant messaging (IM) service like Slack.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

Reality: Social media platforms have great organizational significance and will ultimately become part of the enterprise “fabric” just as we have seen with email, instant messaging, and other collaboration tools. Myth #3: Training and development organizations will make stand-alone social media platform decisions.