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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. If we separate the human aspect of social networking from the technology, we can learn a lot more about the power of networks – not just from today’s pundits, but from many years of sociological research on the topic.

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17 Awesome Resources on Micro Learning

Learnnovators

This approach aligns with research that proves we learn better when engaged in short, focused sessions, than hour-long sessions that cause information overload. Schone and John Polaschek at DevLearn 2009) discusses how Yammer was shortlisted and implemented at Qualcomm for encouraging micro learning within the corporate environment.

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

Dashe & Thomson

As most of us in the adult learning community already know, up to this point most workplaces have seen two types of learning: formal learning through training, and informal learning through experience, conversation or random events which, according to research, accounts for about 80% of total learning. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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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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17 AWESOME RESOURCES ON MICRO LEARNING

Learnnovators

This approach aligns with research that proves we learn better when engaged in short, focused sessions, than hour-long sessions that cause information overload. Schone and John Polaschek at DevLearn 2009) discusses how Yammer was shortlisted and implemented at Qualcomm for encouraging micro learning within the corporate environment.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. Anyone can join up for free using their business email address and if a network for their company already exists, they will join it, if it doesn’t it will automatically be set up. In addition it makes sharing files with other people very easy. 7 – Skype. 10 - Wikipedia.

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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. This is not a scientific guaranteed research (by far). Preliminary conclusion.

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