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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

From the business perspective, however, networking isn’t only helpful, it is mandatory. Business networking not only brings new business and new talent, but it supports collaboration – whether it’s collaborating with internal team members or making connections outside of the organization. So big deal, you say.

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They’re not like us

E-Learning Provocateur

We tinker with software, experiment with new ideas, attend conferences, and join local meetups. My poll results from Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector are somewhat enlightening. We crowdsource ideas, invite feedback, ask questions, and proffer answers. The list is endless. No one forces us to do all this.

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ASTD #TK11 – Opening Keynote Kara Swisher

Learning Visions

Yammer, Socialcast, Jive, etc. This is a huge business opportunity…we are on the cusp of a real problem. You’ll see screens – you plug your tablet into a screen with a keyboard…that business is over. No more retrograde person than the CTO in a company…they don’t want these changes. But these changes are coming.

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Crowd source your corporate knowledge

Challenge to Learn

Enabling employees to share their knowledge through video blogs, posts, social media (yammer) or in the form of courses and quizzes is an important part of that. Business processes are changing at an ever increasing speed. It is (almost) impossible to deliver learning and training material at the same speed.

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Flexing Your Tools to Create Maximum-Impact Online Training

Mindflash

Integrate social networks, like Yammer , to allow your workforce to collaborate, communicate, socialize, and create informal learning spaces outside of (but connected to) formal learning spaces. Integration with social networks, like Yammer, allow for after-training conversations, mentoring, knowledge sharing and informal learning.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Chief Learning Officer magazine recently reported that its Business Intelligence Board (BIB) of learning leaders is more optimistic about the outlook for 2011 than they were in 2010. Provide this list, and encourage people to use their local public libraries to get started. Need informal learning software?

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2013

OpenSesame

2013 is rapidly approaching and if you’re like the rest of the OpenSesame community, you’re busy evaluating your successes in 2012 and thinking about ways to be more effective in 2013. SunZu – A network for people doing business that lets you meet, share, learn, trade and grow with other business owners. Still free!