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Social Networking – A Contrarian View

Upside Learning

We all know social networks promote learning; while the mechanisms aren’t documented or well-understood, that it works isn’t in doubt anymore. But we must ask, are the ‘social media/networking systems’ out there promoting this learning? Has your organization implemented a social networking platform?

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New Hire Onboarding Blog or Social Network

Tony Karrer

How about asking select new hires to keep an inside the firewall blog as they begin their jobs at your company? or If they come into the company in waves, how about providing them a discussion group or better yet a social network tool that has good discussions as a means of communicating with each other and with coaches?

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Business Social Media Benefits

Clark Quinn

For the latter, I was asked to address the question: “what businesses can learn from allowing employees to access social networking sites, and how allowing social networking can benefit businesses?&# It’s the network. As a consequence, I’ve been doing some interviews, some live, some via email.

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Social Media vs. Social Learning

Integrated Learnings

Most of us have Facebook accounts and collaborate with friends, family and colleagues through this media. We also use tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media. In a lot of cases, we are using internal corporate social media tools to collaborate. By Dean Hawkinson. We hope you found this post helpful.

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Global eTraining Announces the Launch of New Revit and Autodesk Construction Cloud Courses

Global eTraining

These tools are an update of Autodesk’s BIM 360 project and design collaboration tools and allow users from different organizations to work without firewall access in real-time. To stay updated on new course releases, product announcements, and training discounts make sure to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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I finally succumbed to Facebook

Clive on Learning

I hadn't intended to sign up with Facebook. Jilly, my wife's daughter, had a look through my first attempt at a profile and pointed out several extremely uncool references (she does work for a web design company in London and therefore qualifies as a reasonable guide of cool) which I quickly corrected. I'm not sure whether anyone does.

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LMS: Strategy or Tool?

Upside Learning

Related posts: Hosted vs. Behind-the-firewall LMS – How To Decide? Reseller program for UpsideLMS launched Learning Management: What does a Training Company need an LMS for? I am sure some providers are already thinking on similar lines and I’d be keen to understand their experiences and opinions on this.

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