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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

From a community of practice perspective, lurking is interpreted as “legitimate peripheral participation,” a crucial process by which communities offer learning opportunities to those on the periphery. (p. After digging through the references and some old articles I had saved, these are some of the key points that emerged.

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5 long-lasting lessons from 2021 to speed up workforce competitiveness in an accelerated world

CLO Magazine

On one hand, it slowed down businesses in certain areas, but on the other, it caused an over-acceleration of the adoption of unimaginable levels of changes and technologies. Most organizations adopted new technologies, processes and new ways of doing things. Businesses have faced many drastic changes during the times of the pandemic.

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Content is a tyrant.

Learning with e's

But in adopting these communication advances, are we also opening the door for a deluge of content? In 1996, most pre-Google online searching was done using Yahoo! (a Yet connecting into a community of practice can work as a double edged sword. Are we not already swamped by a tsunami of content?

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5 Vital Elements of Engaging Microcontent

Obsidian Learning

Learners not only expect but demand that microcontent be easy to search for, easy to access, and easy to run, see, and interact with on their device of choice. Call things what I call them so I can find them when I search, and be confident that you know what you’re talking about, and that I understand what you mean. Use my words.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

One particularly intriguing feature of Slack is that most chats are archived and available for searching. Here at Obsidian, we use both email and messaging ( Skype ) for inter-office communication, a combination that works just fine for us as a small, woman-owned business. Apparently, though, not everyone agrees. What do you think?

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

In terms of finding people with experience on this, my first suggestion was using LinkedIn and particularly looking through LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers , LinkedIn for Finding Expertise , and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. This is in process. I’ll also reach out via twitter.

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E-Learning 2.0 Research

Experiencing eLearning

Users/Learners are empowered to search, create, and collaborate in order to fulfill intrinsic needs to learn new information.&#. Communities of practice and wikis are highest 2.0. Communities of Practice increased 12.3%. Was surprised that 30% of people were not considering or learning against adoption.