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Listen: Upwork’s Zoe Harte makes the case for freelancers as core part of talent development strategy

CLO Magazine

Before you joined Upwork, you spent some time in HR at Yahoo! Justin: So what would you say to a CLO who’s working in a company that brings in freelancers regularly? It’s like, “I can’t send this person an instant message because I don’t know if they’re open to that or not open to that.”

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

Reality: Social media platforms have great organizational significance and will ultimately become part of the enterprise “fabric” just as we have seen with email, instant messaging, and other collaboration tools. Myth #3: Training and development organizations will make stand-alone social media platform decisions.