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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. The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. Properly d.

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Bringing learning to the workplace, step 3: People

Challenge to Learn

One of the most effective ways of workplace learning is support offered by colleagues. When you have a question or problem, you find a colleague who knows the answer, you apply what you have learned and you go on with your job. A tool that could support you in this is Yammer. Nothing new here, we all do this all the time.

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Change Management Strategy: Use Social Media

Infopro Learning

In today’s fast-paced world, effective Change Management increases the success of organizational change and project initiatives by applying a structured framework of methods, tools and processes, managing the change from a current state to a future state. Establish an Effective Two-way Communication. Generate Ideas.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

Easy to use and very effective. I have a private Facebook account too, but I hardly use it. We did consider creating a community there for our free edition, but in the end we decided to go with Yammer (see communities). We now use Facebook more for announcements and things like that. I think it works great.

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

Jane Hart

Yammer (on the 2010 list at #20) might be a possibility. It can also be the device to use when you need an immediate answer to a performance problem and you know just the right person who can help you! The most popular social networking site, now with over 1 billion users – everyone knows Facebook! 8 - PowerPoint.

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Impact of informal learning: output learning #LCBQ

Challenge to Learn

It only will be if it has an effect on the learners working skills, making them more effective and productive. If you are able as a manager to apply this model to informal learning you will get more grip on the informal learning processes, while letting the worker free in choosing his own way to the solution of the problem.

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Emerging Asynchronous Conversation Models

Tony Karrer

I also looked at Making Intranet Discussion Groups Effective. However, I've struggled with the problem of destinations vs. social networks and the spread of conversation (see Forums vs. Social Networks ). Patrick tells us: Talkwheel’s design makes class conversations easier to follow, more interactive, and more effectively organized.