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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

What L&D specialists need to understand when setting on the quest to set up professional communities of practice is that even though they may overlap with social communities, they are not the same. Main difference between social and professional communities. Read more: The power of the spoken word: including podcasts in training.

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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

One of my earliest jobs back in the 1980s was managing the educational technology and learning resources for several nurse education centres across the South West of England. Image from Torange A lesser known fact about my career is that I have worked intermittently in medical science for quite several decades.

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50 Posts and Articles that Made Me Think in 2011

ID Reflections

and Social Business Initiatives Are Likely to Remain Difficult by JonHusband Community Management CommunityManagement: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability by DionHinchcliffe Communitymanagement: The 'essential' capability of successful Enterprise 2.0 approaches?

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine)

Mark Oehlert

" March 26, 2008 in Application Becomes the Platform | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface" (D-Lib Magazine) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed.

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John Seeley Brown Keynote at #ASTD2013

Learning Visions

10,000 or so training and development people here to extend their practice. Stocks = assets that we packaged (the old order of corporate training). Tacit knowledge can’t be delivered by traditional training techniques. Using simple social software to create a network of practice or a community of practice.

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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? We’ve been tasked with converting their Retail Sales Training seminar into an eLearning package. Data Driven - eLearning Technology , December 10, 2008 Will the retail sales training change behavior in ways that improve customer satisfaction? Specifically, the web.

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10 Tips on How to Use Your LMS for Knowledge Management

Ed App

Current employees must have refresher training about this topic from time to time. Unschedule training to increase knowledge management. Training can take place at any time, in any time zone. An LMS has a variety of gamification elements to bring fun and motivation to training. Knowledge management can make this happen.