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Best Ways to Use Social Networks in eLearning

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Social media is playing an ever-increasingly important role in all of our lives. Each day, hundreds of thousands of us use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and a whole host of other social networks.

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

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The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me. In fact, the competition wasn’t close; the computer came away with nearly four times as much money as the closest nearest competitor. A lot of people, apparently, agree.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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As I write this blog, the man now has 94,894 followers on Twitter and every major news outlet in the world is scrambling for an interview. Going beyond this anecdotal story on the power of social media, however, my colleague Jim Thomson’s latest blog post describes how companies using Web 2.0 Can you say future book deal?

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What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? | Social.

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We all know that social media will be a major driver in the 2.0 In about a week, he has amassed more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and his catch phrases (“ winning ,” “ tiger blood ,” etc.) have become some of the top trending topics on the site, repeated by thousands of people. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. I learned that the Target Center in Minneapolis is the 28 th busiest building in the nation via Facebook today. That’s right, FACEBOOK! That’s right, FACEBOOK! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you. How do you keep your learners motivated and engaged? Please feel free to post your suggestions! Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d. Properly d.