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

Dashe & Thomson

Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work. One friend mentioned that her company doesn’t allow her to use the internet, period, because they expect her full attention to be on patients for the entire day. And she felt this to be acceptable.

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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. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles

Tony Karrer

- Leveraging Learning , October 6, 2009 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team - Learning Putty , October 22, 2009 10 Tips to Get Started with Twitter - Learn and Lead , April 18, 2009 Coping with Twitter - Learning Conversations , February 26, 2010 Hashtags in Twitter and walls, fountains, ways to keep everyone's remarks in the picture (..)

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Social Learning – A Transformational Shift in Workplace Learning

Origin Learning

The distractions on offer from one’s mobile devices, the Internet, and one’s colleagues are just a few. Why do you think successful business leaders write long notes and share them on LinkedIn? Solutions like Yammer, Slack, Chatter, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and Google Hangouts go beyond messaging and video-calls.

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The next normal

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s only been a few months since lockdown, and everyone’s been scrambling to keep business continuity ticking over. There will never be a better opportunity for tapping social tools like Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Jive, etc to unlock the knowledge trapped in the LMS and other stores of information all through your organization.

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Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills

Jane Hart

But, as businesses transform into social businesses, the social workplace is going to become more and more reliant on these skills. And Maria Ogneva agrees in her blog post, This is not your parents’ software training , when she talks about how organisations should approach Yammer “training”.

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