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2010 in Retrospect: Top Few Blogs and Books

ID Reflections

Why we need to kill "social media" by Rob Key 7. Generations, Social and Enterprise: adopt vs adapt by Martijn Linssen 9. The Evolving Social Organization by Harold Jarche 10. Wicked Problems 17. The “New” Social Learning isn’t a New Thing by Sumeet Moghe 18. Designing Training for Organization 2.0

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

One of the things that this group has identified as one of their “problems” is that they receive too many emails. They see the benefit of the tool in a strict learning environment, but have difficulty seeing its use in an expanded role.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Although this is not the entire story, I believe we will need to adopt these and other new technology mediated approaches widely if we wish to secure the future of higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology , 39(6), 987-995.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Active lurkers also include those people who may visit a customer support community and find a solution to their problem without contributing to the community. Those people derive a lot of value from that community interaction and so does your company since they do not clog up your customer call center.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. The social learning revolution has only just begun. The problem? This is not atypical when companies adopt new technologies. Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

The problem lies not in this goal, but how learning vendors are choosing to get there. Companies will choose best-of-breed social business software vendors for enterprise social learning deployments, not niche players Below is Gartner’s 2009 Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, G00171792 [see note at end of post].

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

No problem. Thus, limited education resources would better be devoted to adopting other educational practices that have a strong evidence base, of which there are an increasing number. Were you too busy to read the reviews, analysis and opinions? I summarized the gist of it in a quick handy dandy rating system focusing.