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Learning Decathlons, Circles and Other Conversations at Accenture

CLO Magazine

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. Varma: We are designing and coordinating conversations around various subjects rather than designing social learning content.

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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

adoption case study " Inside out , February 20, 2009 How to kick start a Community | Connie Bensen , May 20, 2008 Cisco on Collaboration: Know Your Enthusiasts & Laggards | Future Changes , October 2, 2009 Essential reading for online community managers - FreshNetworks , January 5, 2010 Insight from online communities: 2. .

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The Collapse of a Community of Practice (CoP)

bozarthzone

While a true community of practice is usually characterized by its lack of formal oversight, the moderators did a good job of blocking out blatant marketing attempts and people phising for email addresses, and refocusing/refereeing discussions when needed. The conversations have raised some points to ponder on the matter of CoPs.

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Social Learning: How to Build Conversations into Your eLearning Courses

Mindflash

In fact, adult learning theory and communities of practice address the important of social interactions and learning. A simple example of this is that before a customer service training course, ask enrollees to describe a prior good and bad customer experience they have had. eLearning Helps Deliver New Content.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

should be followed by a non-punitive conversation between manager and employee about what happened, what was learned, and what should be done to be successful in the future. This learning cannot be left to chance. At a minimum, mistakes (errors, failures, screw-ups, etc.)

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Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

Tony Karrer

And as a bonus, John will be doing another session with Jack Merklien of Xerox Global Services on communities. He coaches and consults on issues ranging from event design and community facilitation, to community design and evalua tion, and technology selection and configuration.

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Guff: a conversation in 3 parts. Part 1

Clark Quinn

Thriving is going to require continually introducing improvements: new products, new services.”. B: “Caterpillar’s got communities of practice generating ROI, Best Buy’s getting a lot of advantage through internal idea generation, the list goes on, and those are only the ones we’ve found.”. A: “About time.”.