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Effective Community Management: Best Practices for Success

learnWorlds

From defining your community’s essence to choosing the perfect platform, nurturing a team of dedicated moderators, and fostering a sense of belonging, these practices lay the foundation for a vibrant and purpose-driven digital forum. How Online Community Platforms Differ from Facebook or LinkedIn Groups and Support Communities?

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Top 100 eLearning Items

Tony Karrer

Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0

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Social Learning Has Its Place…And Informal Learning Does Too.

Dashe & Thomson

Social learning refers to a class of learning, which includes wikis, blogs, screen sharing, podcasting, photo sharing, social bookmarking, collaborative working, social networking, etc. Social learning (small S, small L) does not refer to the use of social media in top-down, formal learning.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

Students don''t like them because they are impersonal, not easy to navigate, and are a pale comparison of their weapons of choice - social networking services such as Facebook. Teaching staff don''t like MLEs because a whole new set of skills are needed, and it takes time to generate content and maintain the system.

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Learning as dialogue

Learning with e's

Our ideas, when shared, modified, repurposed and amplified , have a value that pertains to entire communities of interest. Extensive conversations with others within one''s community of practice are now easier than ever, thanks to social media such as social networks, wikis and blogs. Unported License.

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Knowledge, practice and community

Learning with e's

In this post, I extend this idea into the work Lave did with Etienne Wenger, which has become known as Communities of Practice. The work of Lave and Wenger advances this concept, turning its focus to the people who make up the learning communities we are all a part of. Previous posts in this series: 1. Knowles Andragogy 24.

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A little more conversation

Learning with e's

The dialogue I enjoy is accessed via my PLN, often through Twitter, but can also come from LinkedIn or Facebook, Google Hangouts or even YouTube and any number of other of the social media platforms I use. All of my learning right now, at this stage of my career, is self determined. Unported License.