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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

We managed to let people connect beforehand through a platform (ning ) and afterwards link participants to other networks or initiatives (like the outcome mapping community ). The evaluation was quite positive about the effect of using social media. Last year we experimented with a ning platform, a twitter account and a few videos.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Despite moving some activity onto the Internet and getting its journalists blogging the company is still struggling. Alternatives to ILT events The Internet has not only changed the way we communicate but also our concept of 'freely available'. Learning Tree reported a decline of 31.2% in earnings compared to 2008.

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Design - Audio - Podcasting - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Seeing The Invisible: How To Identify Early Indicators Of Gaps In Instructional Design And Training Effectiveness <!–( from McKinsey - Internet Time , September 6, 2009. Ning apps for your Ning network , September 10, 2009. –( eLearning Events Calendar )–> Thursday, September 24, 2009.

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Five Barriers to Effective Learning in Organisations - Performance Learning Productivity , April 7, 2010 Very few of us would argue with the proposition that a lot of organisational learning and development activity is sub-optimal to the extent that it provides little value to participants and their organisations. Is it a fad?

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Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2013

OpenSesame

2013 is rapidly approaching and if you’re like the rest of the OpenSesame community, you’re busy evaluating your successes in 2012 and thinking about ways to be more effective in 2013. Reddit – The best (and worst) of the internet, with upvotes and downvotes. Ning – Don’t like Facebook? You don’t have to go it alone.

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Transforming Lives Through Courses And Coaching With Yoga Healer Cate Stillman

LifterLMS

So I was pretty early to the like, you know, getting that if you had an internet connection, and a computer and a good, you know, and just wanted to be useful to people that you could do something, and I think that helped a lot. Was this your first dollar on the internet kind of thing? And that was in 1996. That mindset helped a lot.

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2009 Edublog Award Nominations

Janet Clarey

.&# His topics go beyond education and cover information design and data visualization, interface and navigation design, learning technologies, social networking, video-Internet television, with easy-to-understand guides and comparisons. For the record I did listen to heavy metal music while in labor with no adverse effects.