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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

People in your network become the portals to knowledge, opportunity, and information you might not find on your own. Networking comes naturally for some people, but not-so-much for others. So big deal, you say. Why is networking so important anyway? From the business perspective, however, networking isn’t only helpful, it is mandatory.

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How to Use Microblogging in Workplace Learning

Upside Learning

As a personal learning tool, Twitter is great but it’s a public platform and what you share on it is available to everyone, some organizations may need tools which can be installed behind their firewalls (Laconica, Yonkly) or that is available as a secure private service (Yammer). All these tools have functionality that’s similar to Twitter.

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What’s Your Learning Tool Stack?

Clark Quinn

There’s also probably a need to save community-specific resources like documents and job aids, so there may be a portal function as well. Here we (should) see organization wide Enterprise Social Networks like Jive and Yammer, etc. Also enterprise wide portal tools like Sharepoint. Finally, we get to the org level.

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The Key to Adoption of Collaboration Tools: Process Integration

Dashe & Thomson

Along comes an internal collaboration tool like Yammer, or the aforementioned Yakabod, and employees have to launch a whole new workflow to get engaged. If an official portal is the place to get news, updates & find information – your social platform must seamlessly be an integral part of that experience.

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Can Learnist Hold the Key to Enterprise Social Learning?

Dashe & Thomson

Some have even been fairly successful, such as Yammer , Bloomfire , or Microsoft SharePoint. Learning companies like ours have been pushing the idea of “bite-sized learning chunks” through a performance support system or learning portal for quite some time, too.

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The Smart Worker : relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues

Jane Hart

Once again, there are many teams who have already done this using private networking tools like Yammer , which provide quick and easy networking within organisations, as well as the creation of groups and external networks.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

Collaborative learning also can be informal discussion groups in Yammer, rating content on SharePoint or mashing up a video. To remove the confusion, companies are turning to learning portals so learners can search and access information. As learning evolves from an event to something systemic, learners need guidance.