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Social media: Prevention is better than cure

E-Learning Provocateur

My previous article, Social media: It’s not about the technology! focused on the internal use of social media by employees to import and share knowledge inside the organisation. This article shifts its focus to the external use of social media by employees to export knowledge outside of the organisation. Have your say.

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The tail is not yet wagging the dog

Clive on Learning

In The Long Tail , Chris Anderson (formerly a reporter for the Economist) argued that the easy availability to media content afforded by the internet would shift purchasing power away from mass media and towards the previously hard-to-serve niches. Are there parallels in the world of learning?

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/26/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise. The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. Old media certainly are trying new tricks.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up! (and a shocker!)

Mark Oehlert

found via an article in the Wall Street Journal) turns out that a Harvard professor has found out that the arguments put forward by WIRED editor Chris Anderson in The Long Tail, might not be exactly spot on. " Elberse writes that "It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. " Geez.

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

FYI that's what publishers thought about the music industry when it when through it's slide. down 99.58% Media General, down 92.47% Gannett, down 80% I guess that's why I'm not a stock analyst. But that doesn't mean you have a viable business. State of the Business of Learning Oh, those poor publishing people. Lee Enterprises, down 97.3%

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Hot Topics in eLearning for 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Hot Topic #2 - Social Media , Social Networks , Social Learning , and Informal Learning. Social media, social networks, communities for learning both formal and informal is bigger than I think we can even imagine at this point. 7 Creative Ways to Introduce Social Media to Your Team , October 22, 2009. August 25, 2009.

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How Course Creators Get Leads Through Content and Scale Revenue Through Smart Promotions with Marketing Professional Daniel Daines-Hutt

LifterLMS

A big problem with that is we emulate what we see, and what we’re doing is reading news sites and media hubs, and things like that. But the thing is, I only have a post, photos of my cat or music that I’ve been listening to and occasionally I will share a blog post or something on there, like once every four months.

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