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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. From the business perspective, however, networking isn’t only helpful, it is mandatory. Your business networks can be your most valuable resources! Reach out to your network and let them support you.

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Properly d.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

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They’re not like us

E-Learning Provocateur

Or a discussion forum that supports an inhouse training program: 1% of the participants will fall short of the critical mass that is required to develop a rich, diverse and meaningful discussion. My poll results from Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector are somewhat enlightening.

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6 Steps To Creating Learning Ecosystems (And Why You Should Bother)

Learnnovators

In contrast, social and experiential learning continue to be veritable goldmines of productivity, placing learners at the centre of their story and demanding a major shift from Learning & Development professionals. Central to this cultural shift is the understanding that learning happens by learners, not to them.

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5 eLearning Trends Leading to the End of the Learning Management System

easygenerator

Learners need information to solve an immediate need or problem, or decide for themselves where, when and how to complete courses to gain new skills or knowledge. Moreover, Tin Can (Xperience api) makes it possible to track and trace any learning experience on an individual level. Personalized (Adaptive) Learning.

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The Key to Adoption of Collaboration Tools: Process Integration

Dashe & Thomson

As with more traditional IT initiatives, the old “senior executive support” mantra is frequently cited as a key to successful user adoption. Ryser says: You need a champion with clout, supported by a cross-functional team of people with a good mix of experience, credentials and authority. This makes a lot of sense.

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