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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

The meaning of ‘community’ has changed drastically with the spread of the internet and the rise of all the social networks. No longer confined by geography, people who share the same interests can connect, share and grow as a community online. Organizational value of online communities. Social networks focus on relationship.

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Communities of Practice in your LMS: A hidden KM tool

TalentLMS

Extend this to the Subject Matter Experts and popular spokes-person through a defined communication framework and you have a community of practice in action! Engage all learners in a transparent, open-to-all discussion board directly under the course. Knowledge in this wiki is “community managed and owned”.

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Communities of Practice in your LMS: A hidden KM tool

TalentLMS

Extend this to the Subject Matter Experts and popular spokes-person through a defined communication framework and you have a community of practice in action! Engage all learners in a transparent, open-to-all discussion board directly under the course. Knowledge in this wiki is “community managed and owned”.

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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. TorranceLearning has created a kind of community of practice that they call the Torrance Download. Between noon and 3:00 on a Friday, five concurrent, 30-minute discussions were held for a total of 20 topics. Did you learn it?

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Book Discussion Clubs That Can Boost Employee Performance And Engagement

eLearning Industry

In this article, I give you some tips on how you can introduce book discussion clubs as communities of practice that can enhance your L&D strategy and provide great benefits for your organization. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Effective Community Management: Best Practices for Success

learnWorlds

Well, this is where community management swoops in as the game-changer. Companies that build strong learning communities , as found by Salesforce in 2021, are 3.5 The latest study from IBM showed that online learning communities can boost employee productivity by a whopping 20%. But it’s not just students.

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Social Learning vs. Communities of Practice

Janet Clarey

When it comes to the terms “Social Learning” and “Communities of Practice”, many people in the corporate learning realm are confused, myself included. Are Social Learning and Communities of Practice different? Communities of Practice. I think they are, but do you? technologies.