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How to Use Microblogging in Workplace Learning

Upside Learning

As a personal learning tool, Twitter is great but it’s a public platform and what you share on it is available to everyone, some organizations may need tools which can be installed behind their firewalls (Laconica, Yonkly) or that is available as a secure private service (Yammer).

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Social Media vs. Social Learning

Integrated Learnings

Many companies block external sites such as Twitter and Facebook, but a lot of them are deploying their own internal social media sites or corporate-friendly tools such as Yammer. Check with your IT department to see what tools and guidelines may already be available to you for collaboration within your firewall.

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Models for Learning Questions

Tony Karrer

Yammer (internal twittering) is almost impossible to explain to someone who has no experience with any social networking (and probably not with anything more than email lists). My suggestion is that you don't really try to sell Yammer or a Wiki or any other kind of tool. Twitter/Yammer is something new. Strategy still hold: 1.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Top Ten Tools for 2009

Learning Visions

Also really starting to get into Yammer. or status is better, but I stumbled on Yammer first - created T&D internal microblog.not too shabby. Hey Mark, Would love to hear more about how youre using Yammer within the firewall as well as those IJAs youre creating with Articulate. maybe Present.ly

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A truckload of Twitter tools and some peachy keen visualizations.

Mark Oehlert

edmodo : Just like Yammer is an attempt to take Twitter (aka microblogging) inside the corporate firewall, edmodo seems to be aiming at the teacher/class market. Another collection of lists that I am currently plowing through is this growing set of niche Top Tens from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

The parallel concept of Bring Your Own Content (BYOC) has also been suggested and, as mobile devices – smartphones and tablets – have circumvented corporate firewalls, the ability for learners to source, select and consume their own learning materials when and where they choose is becoming a reality.

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Notes from DevLearn and the Adobe Learning Summit

Steve Howard

Can hook up to Yammer too – Yammer is an internal Twitter-like client that allows 2.0 interaction behind the company firewall – safe, secure conversations not visible to the public. ultimately companies will be able to run their own wave server – behind firewall if they want. Some benefits:-.