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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

There is special emphasis on developing communities of practice (both within the organization and outside it) to encourage the professional development of employees in a friendly, effective and non-invasive manner. Community events that members participate in also make for a great way to improve and learn.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

1) " EduTech gEEks.We're a new brEEd Still new on campus, social software tools can support students and staff beyond the classroom, reaching around the world for learning and communication 17. We Learning, Part II Second part of an interesting article - We Learning: Social Software and E-Learning, Part II.

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Camtasia - LMS - LCMS - Best of eLearning Learning August 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

–( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Social Media: Trends and Implications for Learning <!–( –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Increasing Virtual Learning And Webinar Effectiveness With Your Social Learning System <!–(

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

This morning I received an email asking…”How are people using social software to support learning?” Everybody knows about network effects: the value of a network increases exponentially with the addition of each new node. I’ve learned a whale of a lot from these events over the last twenty years. Too much technology.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

Social mobile computing. Social software. Social accounting tools. Pushing lessons is not very effective; it’s a poor investment. Learning professionals will be helping to bake sound learning practices into these evolving structures. Self-organizing mesh networks. Community computing grids.

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Social Learning: Key resources from January

Jane Hart

. “Given how successful Facebook and other social experiences are on the consumer Web, why wouldn’t every organization flock to this vision of agile, spontaneous, transparent, and people-centered corporate collaboration? The explosion of social software tools is a source of great innovation, but also a lot of confusion.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

How to effectively architect information for your elearning course - Free as in Freedom , February 6, 2010 As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. It’s a good reminder of the level of effort that is required to make online learning effective and valuable for our students!