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Using Social Media to Drive Social Learning

ATD Learning Technologies

Learners of the Future: Taking Action Today to Prevent Tomorrow’s Talent Crisis , the latest research study from ATD and i4cp notes that social media and other technologies provide a foundation for social learning, and asked about the L&D function’s role in encouraging learners to collaborate.

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Starting from scratch

Clark Quinn

My initial step would be to establish a social media system, supporting conversations and collaboration on work teams and communities of practice. They’d also be able to both create and share media, video, audio, and screencasts. Another emphasis would be on developing individual capability for self-learning.

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: David Vance

CLO Magazine

Also, in a lot of organizations, at the same time they switched to virtual, they have emphasized the content they have available on their portal. I hope they’ve also emphasized any knowledge-sharing communities of practice that exist out there. For portal content, you can’t do that.

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Related Terms

Tony Karrer

Here are some terms that are getting more attention the first couple weeks this month (December 2008) include Social Media , eLearning Activity , Mobile Learning , Yugma , Slideshare , SharePoint , Twitter , 100 Conversations , Mzinga , and GeoLearning.

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The Importance of Learning Technologies

CLO Magazine

Many organizations wrap their LMS in a very user friendly portal so the actual LMS may be transparent to the user. The portal may be part of an organization-wide effort to provide access to all HR services and company information through one home page. Used in this way, portal technology increases the efficiency of the LMS.

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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 Social Learning Revolution in eLearning

TalentLMS

The boom in social media and the round-the-clock need to connect in communities is doing wonders for the eLearning industry. Indirect contact is what we do on our social media like LinkedIn, Twitter, online course discussion boards, etc. New product or service designs are suggested, best practices are implemented.