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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. I put reflection underpinning all of these, as a core practice.

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Blog Book Tour: Social Media for Trainers--stop #9

ID Reflections

Today, a trainer/ID/L&D director can ask a group of learners on Facebook or Twitter (or any other micro-blogging service that operates within the company firewall if security is an issue) how useful they find the course, what do they like or dislike, which aspects are most relevant to their real work, what could be removed, and so on.

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Breaking Up with “Yeah, but…”

Learning Rebels

Why can’t our tired argument of “Yeah, but…” be flipped to the more improv friendly, “Yeah, and…” Yeah, blended learning is the more effective way to go… and …this is how we might start taking baby steps. . Some people do some reading. Some watch video’s.

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Profile of a learning architect: Sebastian Graeb-Konneker

Clive on Learning

Communities of practice have been established for more 12 years, with well-defined policies and systems. This bottom-up approach has proved to be effective, although the degree of success does vary from area to area. Sebastian is part of the Learning & Organisational Effectiveness team in Shell Project & Technology.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Saba’s primary market is corporate learning with just more than half of all implementations installed behind-the-firewall (largest implementation 2,000,000 learners). The sixth LMS in the LMSs that kick ass Friday series is Saba. Their total number of registered users/learners worldwide is 17,000,000 at over 1300 organizations.

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Idea nodes & innovation

Jay Cross

It’s grounded in the shared ideas, ideals, practices, preferences, values, and training of a community. Communities of practice, scientific paradigms, and the culture of the internet are idea spaces. Abandoning the MITH myth eradicates the age-old firewalls we have erected around our minds.

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7 Challenges to Social Learning

Origin Learning

The focus should be on encouraging communities of practice, discussion groups etc. Issues like firewalls and security may be major concerns when you launch an enterprise-wide social learning project. Truth is, the best organizations play lesser emphasis on documenting every form of learning. without necessarily measuring them.