Skilful Minds

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Word of mouth communities and networks using social software are increasingly spread over regional, national, and international borders, making them much more important to those who market branded products and services, online and off.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 30, 2009

This morning I received an email asking… How are people using social software to support learning? I think most of us agree that there is an important social dimension to learning. But in what ways do social software applications such as LinkedIn and FaceBook help people to learn?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

I also talked to Social Text, seeing if they supported user-generation of video (no). Also, I’d been pinged by the CEO of MangoSpring via the social software for the conference (which didn’t obviously give me a way of pinging back!?!?), so I stopped by the booth for their product, Engage.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Performance Learning Productivity , August 22, 2009. Podcasting for E-Learning: Introduction to Audio Production - The E-Learning Curve , August 11, 2009. The following are the top items based on social signals. Social Networks (118).

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Jay Cross

MARCH 26, 2010

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. Social Software: Get Affiliated. What is social software?

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 19, 2009

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. Podcasting for E-Learning: Introduction to Audio Production - The E-Learning Curve , August 11, 2009. Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings For Kids? Featured Sources.

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Mindflash

JANUARY 24, 2011

Organizations of all sizes are moving so fast, that as soon as we finish learning something new about products, customers, a change in the competitive landscape, or how to use a new software system, something new comes along to replace it. New learning is once again needed. Enterprise 2.0 : Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Enterprise 2.0 Alternatives Groupware Social Networks 68

Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Long Tail eLearning 2.0 100

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making.

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Janet Clarey

DECEMBER 19, 2008

When social media tools caught our attention, we asked: How can we make use of this stuff with LMS technology in order to push the evolution of learning? That said, there are a lot of products, features and functions coming into the LMS market that, honestly, have no value to a learning and development pro.

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Meridian Social Networks Cornerstone OnDemand Social Media 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. Improve the ease of free-flowing conversation and you improve the quality of learning across the 70, the 20, and the 10.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Jive Yammer 62

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MARCH 30, 2009

Jay Cross posted an interesting story this morning about his reply to this email question, "How are people using social software to support learning?" I don’t find much value in arguing classroom versus network-based learning or formal versus informal because it’s always a case of a little of this and a little of that.

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Social Networks Teach Social Network Network 36

CLO Magazine

MARCH 13, 2013

They will want to go the extra mile, are willing to stay and will recommend their place of employment and its products and services to others. In a 2012 study conducted and sponsored by Domo and CEO.com, researchers found 70 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs had no social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Google Plus.

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Suite Social Authoring Tools Social Networks 63

Janet Clarey

JANUARY 2, 2009

Director, Product Strategy who is responsible for Saba’s Social Media strategy about their product “ Saba Social.&#. Q: What social media tools has Saba incorporated into their LMS? Q: What drove your decision to incorporate social media tools into your LMS? I interviewed Ben Willis, Sr.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 3, 2008

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « A Couple of Lists of Sites to Start the Day. Dion Hinchcliffe, as per usual, has a good solid explanation of the social graph (and a lovely graphic). Think of it as the study of people and their connections.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

. #1 was Mark Zuckerberg founder of facebook). is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals.” Overuse the word “social” -- this word is not helpful. Executives don’t want to make business more social. They want to make it more agile, lean, productive, etc.

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DevLearn Enterprise 2.0 Toolkit Web 100

Jane Hart

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

” 3 - 10 enterprise social networking obstacles , the brainyard, Information Week 3 January 2012. “Given how successful Facebook and other social experiences are on the consumer Web, why wouldn’t every organization flock to this vision of agile, spontaneous, transparent, and people-centered corporate collaboration?

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Xyleme

JULY 21, 2010

Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.

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Social Networks Social Learning Social Blended Learning 109

eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Buzz and Facebook - elearnspace , February 10, 2010 Google has more to fear from Facebook than Microsoft. Microsoft is gifted with an inability to deliver products for the web (I actually liked Popfly, but it has since been discontinued). Social learning: all talk and no action? I found this graphic quite interesting.

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Case Study SharePoint Association Learning Management System Taxonomy 40

eFront

AUGUST 4, 2015

This is being fueled by the redesigning of workplace productivity from email to social networks, our adoption of smartphone and tablet platforms, and our repositioning of services from Enterprise to SaaS (Social, Mobile and Cloud). Technology Enhanced Learning is going through a dramatic change.

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eFront

AUGUST 4, 2015

This is being fueled by the redesigning of workplace productivity from email to social networks, our adoption of smartphone and tablet platforms, and our repositioning of services from Enterprise to SaaS (Social, Mobile and Cloud). Technology Enhanced Learning is going through a dramatic change.

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Global Teams Business Social Networks 40

Big Dog, Little Dog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

The Social Networking Landscape - Dave Pollard. Because they are so easy to build, there is a temptation to design Social Software to provide many Social Networking and Knowledge Management functions in a single tool. The consequence, often, is an over-engineered, unintuitive, overwhelming product.

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Social Networks Cognitive Knowledge Social Network 32

Janet Clarey

APRIL 2, 2009

Goals pretty evenly spread among rapid e-learning (consumption and development), reduce costs, support informal learning, improve productivity. Other notes: Definition of social media vary among attendees (~160). Challenges to SMBs: resources, culture, loss of control of information, fear of loss of productivity/abuse, security.

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Brandon Hall Social Learning Blended Learning Learning Technologies 36

Jane Hart

MARCH 1, 2012

And what can you do to speed not only adoption, but the adoption of productive practices in your organization? To understand the challenges of using collaborative or social software inside business organizations, begin by thinking about the use of similar technologies in your personal life.” Why is it proving so difficult?

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Resources Wikipedia Metrics Social Media 191

Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Training departments are no more at fault than bankrupt companies like Blockbuster Video, Borders, Silicon Graphics, Nortel Networks, Circuit City, Bethlehem Steel, Smith Corona, Polaroid, Wang Labs, or Underwood Typewriters. They all offered great products. Goofing off, Facebook, the football pool. Better to Say. Ineffective.

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Corporate eLearning Compliance Training Blended Learning Training 71