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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. These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties. Properly d.

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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The applications everyone from Wired to the Wall Street Journal are talking about are altering the way we interact with each other, the way we purchase goods and services, and the way we learn. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? I do think Thierry is right in many ways, though. Properly d.

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The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe) | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

As you’ve no doubt come to expect from my “investigative journalism” style, I did a little digging (and I mean little), and what at least one source reports may surprise you. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? But is this really the case, I’ve often wondered? My vote to solve this problem?

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The Great Survey Completion Rate Dilemma Solved (Maybe)

Dashe & Thomson

As you’ve no doubt come to expect from my “investigative journalism” style, I did a little digging (and I mean little), and what at least one source reports may surprise you. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? But is this really the case, I’ve often wondered? My vote to solve this problem?

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Facebook to Train Employees on Political Bias

CLO Magazine

Several former Facebook news curators this spring told Gizmodo they regularly downplayed conservative news stories on the platform’s trending news section despite the fact that such articles were trending on their own among the site’s more than 100 billion users. Bravetta Hassell is a Chief Learning Officer associate editor.

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Blogging is journalism

Clive on Learning

If they merely record what a person is doing at any point in time, that activity will first have migrated to Facebook and other social networking sites and will be moving on again to Twitter. It's journalism. Tags: blogging. So regular blogging is for mad enthusiasts and those with a professional interest. It's the same thing.

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

Or in 2005, before Facebook became open to the public? Train your learners to look for a “sponsored” or “paid content” tag when looking for sources. When was the source written, and is it still relevant? Imagine trying to write a guide for citing online sources in 1997, the year before Google was founded?