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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. These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties.

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

Learnnovators

social networks (yammer, chatter). By putting a measurable business goal — a high-level evaluation — first and making it the center of everything we do, we publicly commit to improving our organization’s performance and demonstrate our value.” – Cathy Moore. just-in-time performance tools (checklists, quick reference guides).

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To Incentivize or Not: Challenges in Implementation of Enterprise Social Networks

OpenSesame

Yesterday, Dan Pontefract published a thought-provoking post on the pros and cons of offering incentives to employees for participation in professional social networks like Yammer or SocialCast. and Test Driving Yammer.). Time is on Your Side. In my experience, however, the biggest obstacle to adoption is time.

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Pick of the Month: June 2012 – Informal learning, Yammer, collab platforms, change, and keep learning

Jane Hart

This is BS — unless they’ve incorporated business metrics.)” ” And then at the end of the month (28 June) Training Journal reported that Leaders prefer informal learning, research find - something that many of us have known for a long time! 2 – Yammer and social collaboration platforms. ” 4 - Change.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Even in organisations where L&D priorities are closely aligned with business priorities there’s plenty of head-room for improvement. Yammer: Best practice guide #yam - Learning Conversations , April 29, 2010 You walk into a conference room. Confused enough to wonder if there is any point turning my business towards this genre.

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Top Social Learning LMS Features

Talented Learning

But how are these new social business behaviors influencing social learning features of today’s learning management systems (LMS)? But now, progressive LMS vendors are leveraging the recent business culture shift toward social media to fulfill the promise of social learning. Personal activity feeds, journals and news streams.

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Guarding Against Primitive eLearning Programs

Vignettes Learning

In the NPA interview, Carr said: “Our need to be reactive, busy, and constantlyalert and always playing with gadgets has something to do with the part of us that is primitive. Our dream is to make scientific knowledge of the universe at the fingertips of teachers, students, businesses and industry. In " Is Google Making Us Stupid? "he

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