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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

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A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. Instead, they might want to help us build, maintain, and exploit a large network of weak ties. The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

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I have included Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation in every proposal I have ever written, and I wanted to hear from Kirkpatrick himself regarding his take on the current state of evaluation and whether his four levels are still viable. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

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Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. Why is networking so important anyway? People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. So big deal, you say.

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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network by Jolene on April 28, 2011 in Informal Learning , Instructional Design , Training Development , Video , social learning According to the 1996 report from the U.S.

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Vale Don Kirkpatrick

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Last week, Don Kirkpatrick passed away. Performance support interventions or social network outcomes could similarly be measured (at least on levels 3 and 4), yet the language was all about training, which made it easy for folks to wrongly conclude that training was your only tool.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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Learning technologist and university art instructor Anthony Fontana has been developing learning software called QizBox to encourage and stimulate student learning through the use of interactive social media. I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music. Properly d.