CLO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2014

Rahul Varma, chief learning officer at Accenture, took time to discuss how the global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company designs and manages its social learning conversations. Q: What should social learning content design look like? Q: Any lessons learned?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rob is Senior Consultant, Organisational Development for Farm Credit, Canada, a government-owned financial institution making loans to farmers across Canada. Communities of practice Rob works closely with the company’s Knowledge Management function to look for any opportunities for the two departments to collaborate.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2009

We’ve got courses, if they want to be social in the classroom, fine, but all this hype about social learning is just a way for consultants to try to sell old soda in new bottles.”. Thriving is going to require continually introducing improvements: new products, new services.”. B: “So you think learning is about courses?”. What else?”.

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Acorn Labs

MARCH 5, 2023

I'm currently leading the function of capability development in a consulting company. And then worked as a system administrator for a couple of years that the university library before moving over to a consulting company. And that was a training program around business consulting skills.

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Acorn Labs

MARCH 5, 2023

I'm currently leading the function of capability development in a consulting company. And then worked as a system administrator for a couple of years that the university library before moving over to a consulting company. And that was a training program around business consulting skills.

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Limestone Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

There are tons of free webinars this month to keep you connected with your communities of practice. Hear from veterans on their transition from military service to training and talent development. Join Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon, and Hannah Harper, Senior Managing Consultant at BrightCarbon, to find out how.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Are you trying to find an eLearning consultant who would help develop learning and knowledge management solutions for your organization? Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. Learn the basic P3 in eLearning to empower yourself to take informed decisions with consultants.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 23, 2015

Are you trying to find an eLearning consultant who would help develop learning and knowledge management solutions for your organization? Take charge of your organization’s learning needs before you appoint an external consultant. Learn the basic P3 in eLearning to empower yourself to take informed decisions with consultants.

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Marcia Conner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

When I lead education at PeopleSoft a gazillion years ago, I shared with the head of all customer-facing services a copy of Training Magazine ‘s annual numbers issue, published each November (now their November/December issue ). training expenditures—including payroll and spending on external products and services—fell 6.5

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. A lack of accountability – the supply and demand of learning services were separated organisationally and in budget terms.

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Performance Support Global vendor Learning 73

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The corporations represented all sectors: IT, services, finance, manufacturing, communications, healthcare, extraction and several others. Most of the organizations that responded are sailing stormy seas without a rudder: • Less than half reported that their professionals and/or teams form communities of practice. •

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 23, 2023

And here’s a bonus takeaway that doesn’t apply only to game design: Our role in L&D (especially for instructional designers) is to act as consultants to our SMEs and stakeholders. The post Learning Games and Gamification appeared first on Scissortail Creative Services, LLC.

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Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Could you please share your alliance story with our readers please? Just imagine.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 113

Limestone Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

In this first Ask Me Anything session, Erin Melvin, Director of Client Engagement, will focus on general best practices in elearning and answer some of the questions you’ve submitted over the past few months, as well as many live questions as time allows. Some topics covered will be: Building a community of practice.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2013

Whereas many CLOs fortuitously find themselves in the learning and development world as their careers progress, Nick van Dam has been a player in the learning sphere in some capacity for as long as he can remember, beginning with his first job in 1985 as a learning consultant.

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Consulting Virtual Classroom Courseware CLO 51

Learnnovators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

He distills lessons from cognitive science, social networking, business strategy, futures research, and psychology to boost sales, improve customer service, and spark innovation. Jay: The Internet Time Alliance is a community of practice. Could you please share your alliance story with our readers please? Just imagine.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Internet Informal Learning 167

Talented Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

EPISODE 19 – TOPIC SUMMARY AND GUEST: On our previous episode , we talked about the increasing popularity of customer success programs among high-growth companies – especially software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors. But new communities of practice are emerging to offer knowledge sharing and support. We’re here to help!

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Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

Rather, we recommend redeploying them in new capacities, serving as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors and performance consultants. An active community of practice is a different animal from a bottom-up knowledge management network or a corporate news channel.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 16, 2014

Clark: I’m a strong believer in social constructivist pedagogies, e.g. problem-based and service learning, whereby a curriculum is activity, not content. What would be your advice to budding learning professionals who aspire to consider consulting as a career option?

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Big Dog, Little Dog

MAY 27, 2006

A three-day conference, hosted by consultant and newsletter writer Mark Anderson, made a point of landing a wide variety of presenters and a diverse group of attendees. Revisiting Communities of Practice: from fishermen guilds to the global village - Knowledge Board (free registration required). May 27, 2006. conference.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

Method Count Percent Alongside Formal Learning 26 63% Process Information / Training 22 54% Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) / Support Information 18 44% Commonly used resources, URL's to applications, documentation, Contact Information, etc.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2012

Consultant and management theorist Dave Snowden has come up with a framework for management practice in complex environments. Snowden’s Cynefin framework has been used in the study of management practice. For example, Google’s ubiquitous GMail service is still in Beta. Self-service, flexible delivery, convenience.

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IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

That means it could include online courses, webinars, reading books or articles, attending conferences or workshops, participating in communities of practice, or engaging in hands-on projects. That means it should consolidate any services your company has such as Udemy for Business or LinkedIn Learning.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Social Network Culture 73

Learnnovators

APRIL 18, 2014

Clark: I’m a strong believer in social constructivist pedagogies, e.g. problem-based and service learning, whereby a curriculum is activity, not content. What would be your advice to budding learning professionals who aspire to consider consulting as a career option?

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eLearning Guild Social Networks Diversity Training Cognitive 124

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Jenna Papakalos: Communities of practice belong to training. Christy Confetti Higgins: Could IDs be community advocates? What I hear right now is a lot about information services - becoming information experts in the organization and connecting employees to people and content to enable their work. Cynan: yeah.

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Convergence Training

APRIL 22, 2019

To make changes in not only how we engage with customers, for instance, and in the service and products we offer, but how we work internally to bring that all to life and to make sure we can deliver something new, something more appropriate, something more effective. So, for example, Maintenance Planners was one community we set up.

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learnWorlds

AUGUST 29, 2023

Collaborative development: you can explore partnerships with external vendors, subject matter experts , instructional designers, and multimedia production developers in collaborative development sessions to accelerate the creation process and benefit from their expertise and cost-effective services.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How to Read the CEO’s Mind and Get Buy-In: A Consultant Explains (Interview) - Bloomfire , August 12, 2010 As Chief Learning Architect at Business Critical Learning, David Glow works with clients to identify key drivers for their company’s success and align performance solutions to optimize results in those areas. Capital Spend.

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Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Consultants and smart-aleck MBAs will tell you if you want to sell a big project internally, you’ve got to talk ROI. Organizations that make decisions based solely on things that are sufficiently tangible to be counted directly might as well consult a Ouija board to set their goals. It’s the language senior managers understand.

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ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

Xyleme

JUNE 5, 2010

In ECM systems, functionality such as digital asset management, document management, and business process management are simply services of the ECM platform and not separate infrastructures. Take a look: ECM Platform LCM Services Collaboration is a great example here.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. How will L&D be of service to such a workforce? Again, I go back to the notion of L&D becoming community managers. On March 1, 2011, IBM announced the IBM SmartCloud framework to support Smarter Planet.”

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Diversity Training Change Blended Learning Cloud Computing 184

Learnnovators

APRIL 14, 2015

The OpenStack project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. How will L&D be of service to such a workforce? Again, I go back to the notion of L&D becoming community managers. Talent will exist in pools and not necessarily belong to one specific organization.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 1, 2009

consulting / coaching acumen (as well as learning acumen) that is focused on performance problems and outcomes. Rather, we recommend redeploying them in new capacities, serving as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors and performance consultants. New communities have different requirements than old.

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Skills Wiki LearnTrends Attitudes 40

Steve Howard

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

e.g. if you are *accused* 3 times of piracy, you get internet service cut off, and your name circulated to prevent access elsewhere. You can invite others… • … for back channel or private consult. this is the ACTA treaty, adopted in a few places like maybe Korea, France. Not in the best interests of consumers! .

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