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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. Here’s how a typical LinkedIn network might look: Your weak ties are smaller circles, not at the center of a cluster I heard more support for the Weak Ties theory while attending a Knowledge Management conference in 2005. Properly d.

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#astd2014 Conference recap and trends

Challenge to Learn

Here is my recap of the Washington ASTD ICE 2014 conference. This was my second ICE conference (did Dallas last year), it was huge and it was interesting. The trends where workplace learning and informal learning. This is the main trend I see at the conference. But I did love this conference.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? Instructional designers would be wise to become versed in basic video production, since its utility and ubiquity as a learning tool will only continue to grow. tool chest.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

This reminds me of a session I attended on emotional intelligence at the eLearning Guild ‘s Learning Solutions 2011 conference last month. The session, presented by Lou Russell , looked at how the mental and emotional stress in the workplace impacts decision making. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Don’t drink the informal learning snake oil

Jay Cross

The 1999 Online Learning conference in Los Angeles was ground zero for eLearning. Yet at the ASTD Conference six months later, dozens of vendors claimed to have eLearning. I fear that charlatans and dummies are taking informal learning down the same road. An Informal Learning Sequel? And so it goes.

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Hey, That's Social Learning!

Dashe & Thomson

I’m not sure I would have seen the concert through the lens of social learning had I not attended DevLearn ’10 last month. The eLearning Guild hosted an engaging, curiosity-inspiring conference focused on social learning. It was at the concert, however, that I fully understood why I must pay attention to social learning.

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Hey, That's Social Learning! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I’m not sure I would have seen the concert through the lens of social learning had I not attended DevLearn ’10 last month. The eLearning Guild hosted an engaging, curiosity-inspiring conference focused on social learning. It was at the concert, however, that I fully understood why I must pay attention to social learning.