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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business

Jane Hart

Recognises that formal learning accounts for small % of how people learn in the organisation. Training often outsourced, on-demand access to self-paced learning, f2f networking important, facilitated collaborative/peer-learning available in the workflow. Informal learning. Social learning.

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The Formal/Informal Continuum

Clark Quinn

social, informal, [enter your own bizbuzz phrase here] strategy. They’ve serious needs in terms of deep knowledge retiring, acquisitions to integrate into a streamlined operation, and more. Is this formal learning? Is this social or informal learning? Is this performance support? It doesn’t matter!

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Mzinga is clearly targeted at the learning space, being integrated with an LMS. Vignette , on the other hand, started as a CMS for KM, but then added social media around it. Yet, for a learning group, Mzinga’s integration of formal and informal learning is also plausible.

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eLearning Strategy

Tony Karrer

Clearly, you are going to go around the organization to various business owners, partners such as IT, KM, Corporate Library, etc., Informal learning? Are you focused on and responsible for informal learning solutions? What responsibility do you have after the learning event? This is very hard.

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Words of Wisdom*

Clark Quinn

Our vendor was very helpful, taking the necessary time to have it optimally integrated with our IT system. When someone wants to talk expertise directories, or other KM-type activities, we point them to IT. Our responsibility ends at formal learning. Informal learning is an oxymoron. Wikis and blogs?

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RSS: The new intranet protocol? Learning2.0 behind the firewall

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Because it looks like LMS providers have been wanting to become all things to all people by trying to add KM, eLearning, ILT management, learning2.0, It's not necessary when IT departments are deploying the informal learning tools behind the firewall. all into one package. Also, I really do not like Sharepoint. I do not use it.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. KM Tweeters! Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. Dimensions of Social Groups - Workplace Learning Today , May 18, 2009.