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A great business story starts with you

OpenSesame

But in the era of social media we’re accustomed to the idea that we constantly curate our lives to present a story and create different versions of that story for friends and family versus dating sites versus professional networking sites. A company blog. Social media. Among the ways to do it: .

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Where Social Learning Thrives

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Read this inspiring Fast Company blog post by Marcia Conner. A social learning culture requires design, training, guidance, leadership, monitoring and celebrating successes, large and small. She nails what I have been calling learnscaping. Growing a culture of service is more like planting a garden than building a shed.

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What Businesses Can Learn From Nonprofits

The Performance Improvement Blog

For-profit companies have much to learn from the nonprofit sector.   This is the topic that Nancy Lublin, nonprofit leader and social marketing consultant to   corporations, addresses in an article she wrote for Fast Company Magazine that is adapted from her new book, Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business.

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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. They learn it experientially and socially. There’s a chemical addiction involved. In fact learning is behaviour change above all else. Again and again.

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70-20-10 : No longer applicable to online learning – and here’s why

eLearning 24-7

The “20” Learners learn from others via various activities, social being one of them. And my take on how to find and select a mentor via Social Q/A is quite different than what the systems who have embraced it have done. A couple of vendors mention “Quora” as a great example of the whole Social Q/A experience.

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Emerging Technologies for Online Learning 2015 Presenter Profile – Dr. Ulanda Forbess

TechSmith Camtasia

I teach a technical writing course, and have changed the curriculum to include writing for social media. Because one of my former students came back to me after graduation asking for help on how to build a company blog. We have a very supportive and innovative administrative leadership and for that we are extremely grateful.

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10 Ways Digital Technology Impacts Employee Engagement

Ed App

Regular mentoring sessions allow employees to develop their leadership skills and help in self-assessing their limitations. Blogs and social media: Another platform where employees can engage in an open discussion are company blogs and social media pages.

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