I'm conducting a research project in to the Effectiveness of Social Computing for Workplace Learning (a.k.a, Enterprise Learning 2.0). Here are a few early discoveries from the data gathering phase of my research:
1) 80% of respondents work for organi
Read more…How do we as learning professionals overcome the cultural barrier within business towards integrating social media platforms as learning enabler. The notion that social media is only for Gen X & Y is no longer valid as the use of the popular SoMe pla
Read more…What is the value that social computing brings to workplace learning? This question is at the heart of my dissertation project, and thankfully the data gathered over the past three weeks is providing some clear answers. The essence of Learning 2.0's
Read more…I continue to be surprised by some of the data that's building around my research in to the effectiveness of Social Computing for Workplace Learning (a.k.a. Learning 2.0 in the Enterprise). The number of respondents to my questionnaire has now reache
I posted here on January 12th asking how people have used social media to support existing training initiatives, see link below. Thank you to all who replied.
https://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/group/socialmedia/forum/topics/using-social-media-to
Read more…Hi all,
We have started trialling Yammer but at present we are limiting the trial to members within our Training and Development department so we can become familiar with the tool, sharing links, ideas, commenting on them etc.
Before we plan how we can
Read more…We've had some discussion on this already. But if you are a Twitterer, you might be interested in my How
to use Twitter for Social Learning,
If you have any examples of how you are using Twitter for social learning - that's both formal and informal l
Apologies if this seems like self promo, but a couple of people at Tuesday's conference asked me for the link to my snide and sarcastic slideshow about the risk to information security from the 'telephone' and I didn't actually know it.
So if you're
Read more…I'm having a musing Thursday. I'm currently involved with developing an online community presence which is looking at a number of different touchpoints and engagement techniques to bring audiences in. This includes the experience of registration and
Read more…Ning have confirmed they are to end the offer of free networks and are downsizing considerably. Following LT2008 i created a network for our team which now has over 150 members and is just becoming an integral part of our team after 18 months. Given
Read more…I am looking to deliver an informal learning pilot to support a new area within my business. Currently i'm only looking to use discussion forums and blogs and I'm writing the strategy at the moment. I've found some great resources but I was wondering
Read more…The 2009 Toolbox contains 25 categories of learning tool. Within each tool category are the names of the most popular tools from the emerging 2009 Top Tools for Learning, as selected by learning professionals worldwide. The majority of tools in the T
Read more…As we approach the conference, what are you looking to find out about social learning at the conference? What burning questions do you have?
Read more…In the Cafe session "From E-Learning to Social Learning" on the 9th June we considered a number of the people issues that might need to be addressed when implementing social learning in the organisation, and which of these needed to be tackled first.
Read more…What's you best/main tip for using social media in L&D? Here's mine: Just do it! Don't just talk about it - Get stuck in and demonstrate the value of using different social media technologies/tools/echniques for your own professional practice.
Read more…In the "From E-Learning to Social Learning" Cafe Session at the L&SG Conference on June 9th, we looked at some of the technology choices for supporting formal and informal social learning in an organisation. 81 of the participants in the room express
Read more…In my presentation I looked at two ways that the social pieces could be put together (1) by individuals building their own personal learning/working environment/network (PLE or PLN) and (2) by organisations providing a social media platform for indiv
Read more…UK based group members may be interested in a HR (including L&D) tweet-up in London on 29 March.
I'm revisiting an issue that came up for us last year, and was then dropped for more 'urgent' corporate stuff.Our learning technologies team has some autonomy from our Group IT infrastructure. We host our own websites, which IT allows through the fir
Read more…I've expressed my frustration at the 'what if something incorrect gets spread?' argument in this little presentation.Hope you like it - feel free to copy and use if you want.
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