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Business applications of Twitter

E-Learning Provocateur

Earlier this week, I attended a Twitter Camp billed Twitter is not for dummies. I had the privilege of facilitating one of the breakout sessions, which focused on the business applications of Twitter. In a nutshell, I see the business applications of Twitter falling into three main categories: 1. Active tweeting.

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My Personal Knowledge Management Approach

Clark Quinn

Seeking is about information coming in, that is, what you’re looking for and the feeds you track. First of all there’s the ‘as needed’ searches for specific information. If there are multiple hits and not a definitive one, I’ll scan the sources as well as the title, and likely open several.

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MADCAP FLARE: QR Codes

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

If you've got a QR code on your mobile device, scan the code above and you'll end up on my web site at www.hyperword.com. Let any users jump to your web site from a PDF or print manual by scanning a QR code that you add to a manual. But if you select Contact Information, fields appear for Name, Company, etc.

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Information Radar

Tony Karrer

You need information radar that continuously scans for new, quality information that you should be aware of. Information Addiction Let me start this topic with a word of caution. When you find new nuggets of information, you get a chemical reaction in your brain much like an opium hit.

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Applying Usability Techniques to eLearning Documents

Integrated Learnings

If you have ever designed online support documents that are used for quick online reinforcement learning, you know that not only do the documents need to contain the right information, but they must also be usable online. Can users find and use information quickly and easily? Do they need information or direct instructions?

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A new methaphor for e-Learning

Challenge to Learn

It uses the metaphor of a newspaper to present blogs, Twitter Facebook and a lot of other stuff. The beginning of a post or a tweet is presented, so you can quickly scan them. This way of presenting this information really adds value. It enables you to scan all this post in a faster and more attractive way.

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How Research Informs My Work

Experiencing eLearning

If you’re not active in L&D Twitter, you might have missed the big debate recently about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals. These are my reflections on some of the ways research informs my work on a nearly daily basis. I already do a lot of that!”

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