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Not Everyone is a Social Customer | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

The big story last week was how Facebook and Twitter played a lead role in the Egyptian protests against Mubarak, allowing people to bypass the Internet shutdown and post messages via telephone calls. What’s your take on using social media for businesses purposes – be it instructional design, marketing, or otherwise?

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6 Social Media Platforms, and How to Use Them for Your E-Learning

LearnDash

That said, not every social media platform works the same way, and your first step in determining if it’s right for you probably involves a closer look at the options available. Here’s a quick guide through the top six social networks, and how you can use them as part of your online course. Create a course group.

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Should You Use Social Media in Your Course?

LearnDash

Social media platforms update and change in ways that may not continue to be useful to your course. Privacy concerns. Connecting on social media could feel too personal to both you and your online learners. Temptation to add social media because it’s the “thing to do,” even if it doesn’t help your course. Lack of control.

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The Smart Worker : relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues

Jane Hart

What is different though, for many Millenials – as well as (indeed) for many other older workers – is that they now have quick and easy access to a much wider group of friends and colleagues through their online social networks, who they can call on for help. to share and receive ideas, resources and experiences.

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Facebook Platform

Tony Karrer

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. Its privacy policies are questionable and it is giving out user information to applications willy-nilly. Something like the social network operating system , maybe.

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danah boyd ASTD Tech Knowledge Key Note #astdtk13

Learning Visions

Networked Learned: How Tomorrow’s Workers Will Challenge Today’s Organizations. She has been tudying teenagers for the last decade: from Friendster to Facebook to fragmented apps today of Instagram, Tumblr, etc…. Because they are highly social networked. Ability to achieve privacy in these spaces.

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How to Use social media for Online Learning?

Skillquore

As mentioned earlier, not every course or social media platform gels together. Facebook- you must be a caveman if you do not have a Facebook account. Perhaps the best social media platform is Facebook thanks to billion-plus subscribers. Although Facebook is a public forum there are some privacy settings as well.