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Command-and-Control Leadership vs. People-Centered Leadership

The Performance Improvement Blog

Command-and-control leadership remains pervasive throughout business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Business leaders today are exposed to every management theory and best practice. Tags: Leadership command-and-control leadership management.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

We managed to let people connect beforehand through a platform (ning ) and afterwards link participants to other networks or initiatives (like the outcome mapping community ). Last year we experimented with a ning platform, a twitter account and a few videos. In ning, there is a new application which is called member-mix.

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More on GROU.PS

Jay Cross

LOL, just look at their Ning migration page ([link] IT’S STILL PROMISING FREE!!!, as an alternative to Ning, so I’d like to get to the bottom of this. Tags: Just Jay. A comment to my earlier post says, They promised over and over and over that it would always be free and that we would have 10gb of space, etc.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Q : If you have unique content for a specific area of business, like brand marketers, is a group on LinkedIn better than creation of your own business to business network ? I often find that Ning isn't that great for specialized content. Q : what's a " hash tag "? I have a tendency to mix business and fun.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course, Learning Tree International's business is selling face-to-face courses, but most of us will have had the Learning Tree catalogue 'brick' of courses dropping onto our desks on a regular basis for many years. Old business models cannot be maintained forever. Learning Tree has been around since 1974.

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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. Social Learning in the Workplace 2 is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog …Tags: Tags: e-learning 4 stage model Lev Vygotsky social learning workplace learning zone of proximal development ZP.

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Creating a Vibrant Learning Community

Kapp Notes

tags: academic community ) My presentation notes: Faculty today are confronted with a very heterogeneous population of traditional and non-traditional students. They are all very busy. But Facebook , LinkedIn , Ning and IntroNetworks are all great tools for having academically focused learning communities in an online setting.

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