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

Dashe & Thomson

The power of tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Yammer, are pretty astounding. A lot of the Social Media Mavens , however, are really ranting, not about the technology, but about the human dynamics related to social networking. These tools give us a way to connect with people faster and more easily than ever before.

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The Power of Your Network | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Military May 19, 2011 Give User Adoption the Respect it Deserves May 17, 2011 How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties May 11, 2011 Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ May 9, 2011 Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning May 5, 2011 Gregg Sean: Nice review of the topic , I was seeking to see wh.

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What Makes Yammer Different?

eLearning Cyclops

I have started test driving Yammer. It is a social network for only members of your organization. the training and development department can have its own separate group within the organization's Yammer network). What Yammer does not have: There is no search feature for member profiles. So, what makes it different?

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The topic was: social media as learning instrument. The workshop was quite successful as measured by the people who contacted me afterwards for more information, to buy my book or to ask whether they could share our test Yammer and test Ning with their colleagues. With social media you can brew a powerful mix.

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My professional use of social media and communication tools

Challenge to Learn

I noticed that I use more and more social media tools and different tools to communicate. ELearninglearning is the one I use most intense, but there are more like ‘ Working smarter Daily ‘ Social media. We did setup a community for our free users in Yammer and I like that a lot more. Maybe I use too many of them.

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Some Tools for Social Learning and How they Help Learning

Kapp Notes

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. Text-based messaging systems allow for quickly communicating with someone in a synchronous environment. Social Bookmarking. Social Network. Definition of the tool.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Our conversation centered on whether or not companies should limit their employees’ use of the internet and social media while at work. We All Did.