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Microsoft Buys Skype: Will it Impact Your eLearning Strategy?

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The big news this week is Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5billion. Since Microsoft has some ownership in Facebook this might open up FB as a more viable corporate solution. Maybe smaller companies would find Facebook an acceptable communication tool with a Skype feature incorporated into the mega-network.

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Facebook for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

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What Can the E-Learning Industry Learn from Omnichannel?

LearnDash

At first, the idea was simple: if a company is going to market in several places (on TV, on the radio, in a magazine, etc.), With customers engaging with a company from any number of platforms (desktop, social media, and in-store), it’s more important than ever for that experience to be the same, no matter what platform the customer uses.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

I have a private Facebook account too, but I hardly use it. We now use Facebook more for announcements and things like that. In our company we use Microsoft Lync (sort of internal skype). I use Skype but lately I use gotomeeting and gotowebinar more and more to connect to people outside our company.

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What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012

Jane Hart

If your organization doesn’t like the idea of using Twitter for company conversations, then the next best thing is to set up some sort of corporate company (Twitter-like) network. The open source WordPress software is also available to download and install on company servers. 7 – Skype. 2 - YouTube. 6 - Dropbox.

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How to Encourage Social Learning within Your Organization

Origin Learning

Informal it is, but nevertheless we are learning all the time- when we see YouTube videos, when we read blogs and news stories on Facebook , when we tweet and retweet on Twitter , when we ask and answer questions on Quora- we are in fact, adding to our knowledge base all the time. And you know what the best part is, it is voluntary.

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Intelligent Content

Clark Quinn

I don’t have a set company I work for, so if I want to know this stuff to be able to help people take advantage of it, I have to earn my keep (in this case, by writing an article afterward). Full disclosure: I will be on a press pass to attend, but they didn’t reach out to me. I’m not in the PR business.

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