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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. Properly d.

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Our Marketing team wins Prestigious International Award

Learning Pool

The Business Brilliance Awards celebrate global achievements across various industries and sectors, placing a selection of the best companies and teams under the spotlight in a rigorous and competitive judging process. Event sponsors include prestigious organizations such as LinkedIn, Yammer and Oracle.

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How I use social media professionally

Challenge to Learn

I actively started using LinkedIn (my first social media site) in 2004. I started out very careful only connecting to people I knew really well, later I discovered that there is a value for looser a network as long as it is focused on a certain industry. This weekend I read an old but interesting post on LinkedIn strategies.

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They’re not like us

E-Learning Provocateur

We share knowledge on Twitter, contribute to discussions on LinkedIn, read books, write blogs, comment on blogs, subscribe to industry magazines, share links to online articles, watch videos, and participate in MOOCs. My poll results from Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector are somewhat enlightening.

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Top Talent & Development Trends for 2016

KZO Innovations

Here, we’ve rounded up four trends that we think will make a very big impact on the industry this year. Savvy organizations have found ways to drive informal learning through internal social platforms like Yammer, or by hosting internal resources like videos and other content that employees can consume when and where they need it.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool My LinkedIn Open Connection Approach - Treating LinkedIn like a massive, virtual cocktail party. Other Ways to Tap into the Social Grid In the session, I discussed the use of LinkedIn, Twitter and Blogging as my primary tools for tapping into the social grid.

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10 Tips for Incorporating Ed-Tech Into Your Own Development

ATD Learning Technologies

Skim or immerse yourself in ed-tech reports from a variety of sources, such as ATD, the New Media Consortium (the Horizon Project reports are highly nuanced and cutting-edge), and specific industries. This could be LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Yammer, Slack, or any ATD online community of Practice. Share what you know.

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