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Yammer

Jay Cross

If you’re assembling a far-flung collaborative team or bringing together a community of practice, here’s a way to help people stay connected. Yammer is like a private Twitter. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#.

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The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list is revealed

Jane Hart

Although security and privacy concerns are preventing many organisations from making significant use of public social media tools, there does appear to be an increased interest this year in enterprise social networking and collaboration tools (viz Yammer and Sharepoint ).

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6 Ways to Use Interactive Technology in Your Curriculum Development Model

Hurix Digital

It essentially refers to an online learning forum where educators and learners collaborate and participate in active learning sessions, just like in regular classrooms. Collaborative distance learning system. There are multiple tools to collaborate for distance learning virtually. We respect your privacy. Gamification.

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Open Office, Work Culture, and Productivity

The Performance Improvement Blog

Jason Feifer: I witness an inability to concentrate, lack of privacy, and absent sense of ownership--which is a problem given that I occupy this space for the bulk of my waking hours. Supposedly, by all of us being mushed together instead of provided the pleasure of private ­offices, we''re to form a beating heart of collaboration.

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Will chat replace email? Slack thinks so.

Obsidian Learning

” The app, called Slack , is intended to facilitate group discussion and collaboration, and it works across a wide range of devices. As Manjoo notes, some have expressed privacy concerns over Slack’s ability to archive employee chats. This makes Slack a powerful tool for managing knowledge and understanding team dynamics.

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The Smart Worker : relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues

Jane Hart

And by that I don’t mean heavy-handed social media policies, but advice on privacy settings and common sense guidelines on having discussions in a public space. “ So another significant new role for L&D will be helping teams to set up their own communities and groups to support one another. .

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10 Social Media Tools For Learning

The eLearning Coach

Each tool fulfills at least one of these criteria: encourages collaboration; enables user-generated content or input; provides a way to share; and facilitates informal or formal learning. The collaborative feature lets participants get in the act with capabilities for marking up documents as well using as a shared, multipage whiteboard.