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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Lurking and its role in communities has been on the forefront of my mind for the past few days. It has received a lot of attention in the past from the thought leaders in the realm of learning and the role of communities in personal as well as organizational learning. This is especially true of communities in enterprises.

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

I’ve used examples from the lending assistants as well as other benefits of the tool to demonstrate how its use would benefit the bank and these work groups. They see the benefit of the tool in a strict learning environment, but have difficulty seeing its use in an expanded role. I found a lot of great stuff.

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Learn Informal Learning Informally

Jay Cross

Focus on a project for your company that delivers $100,000+ in benefits. Form an on-going community of practice. experience learning hands-on through collaborative work, community, search, social software, blogs and tweets. implementation plan, change management, cost/benefit. You will receive.

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DevLearn ‘09 Keynote: Andrew McAfee #dl09

Learning Visions

is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” This is common in open source community. Build communities that people want to join – that are interesting. Benefits of 2.0 The benefit of 2.0 Definition: “Enterprise 2.0 With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shelved.

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Breaking eggs

Learning with e's

My chapter appears in an edited volume by Stylianos Hatzipanagos and Steven Warburton on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. It is a solid reference manual for best practice of social software tools in teaching and learning. As is the case with all IGI Reference books it is very overpriced.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. But the rise of online communities based on self-affiliation may be putting technology on your side. Social Software: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of social software?

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The Emperor's new clothes?

Learning with e's

I also seem to have stirred up some passion from the edublogging community, judging by some of the blog responses to my Edupunk rant on VLEs. Not everyone wants to ditch them in favour of a patch-work, do-it-yourself approach to using social software, even if it could ultimately benefit learners more.

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