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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

The senior exec called you to his office and explained: “We’re going to experiment to find out how in-house social networks might strengthen learning and development and a few other areas in the company. Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software. Rather than spend the money upfront, start off by using using free social software services like Yammer or Social Text or Wikispaces. Reduce instructional design costs.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

The senior exec called you to his office and explained, “We’re going to experiment to find out how in-house social networks might strengthen our L&D and a few other areas in the company. Several vendors of social network suites have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days.

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LMSs that kick ass - OutStart

Janet Clarey

By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. Many vendors are turning to Talent Management.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

and the Social Social software phenomena, Saba has long held the point of view that these are meaningful technologies and philosophies that can and do drive real productivity. In short, social software tools & philosophies can be powerful enablers of true peer-to-peer learning and people productivity.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

How to effectively architect information for your elearning course - Free as in Freedom , February 6, 2010 As Instructional Designers, its always a challenge to balance meaningful instruction with information. I’ve been ranting about informal and computer-supported learning in organizations for twelve years now.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

However, those vendors who rely solely on this argument are very likely to find themselves quickly marginalized. To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite.