social learning
Dreamforce09: Chatter makes it easy
What more could a typical ADD sales rep want? A killer CRM tool in the cloud, all sorts of great apps that integrate with it, and now a social component! Along the lines of Beth's post on the Marc Benioff keynote, I had started to pull a blog ... Read More
Chatter Will Change the Way We Work & the Way We Train
Just watched the webcast of Benioff’s Dreamforce keynote announcing Chatter, and think it will be a game changer: the barriers to entry for Enterprise 2.0 have just been blown away. What is Chatter Simply put, Chatter is “Facebook” for the enterprise, offering real-time feeds, integration, and collaboration between content, apps, and people. ... Read More
To get Twitter you gotta Tweet!
It's always tough to try to explain the value of Twitter to people who have never used it. "It's updates from people in 140 characters." It's like describing this painting by Chuck Close by saying "it's got all these little blobs of color". True, but doesn't really capture the ... Read More
If We Can Crowdsource Products, Why Not Learning?
People are bringing new products to life in a mere fraction of the time it typically takes to get form idea to reality, trusting completely to the wisdom of the crowds to develop both the concept and the market simultaneously. Companies like Threadless and Quirky ... Read More
User Generated Content: not IF, but WHEN
A lot of the people we talk to tell us that they can't imagine turning their learning content production over to a mass of semi-anonymous users. And they shouldn't!! Except, of course, when they should. It seems like whenever any new idea comes around people ask the question "Should we replace ... Read More
How Influence will Transform Learning
A really interesting post from Ross Dawson on Five key trends in how influence is transforming society. I think that as informal and social learning becomes more commonplace in the enterprise, that we'll see a similar trend in the training space across these same five ideas. http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2009/08/five_key_trends.html 1. Influence ... Read More
Top Ten Reasons Enterprise Learning Communities Fail (And How to Mitigate Them)
1. Unclear strategy: Have not clearly defined the business issues you are hoping to address with the community nor how you want your relationship with your participants to change. Mitigation: Obtain executive sponsorship, clearly define (and prioritize) your business objectives, and determine the desired impact the community should have on your ... Read More
Death by Twitter
I'm starting to wonder how many other people feel like they are being Twittered to death? Not just from the hundreds of tools out there to Tweet, search Tweets, or receive them, rather just the constant overload of articles, how-to's, and incorporation of Twitter into just about every topic across ... Read More
Value of Social Media to Enterprise Learning
A colleague recently used his LinkedIn status update to pose a simple, yet enormous question: “Looking at social networking and learning within large enterprise companies. What value does it add to learning and development?” Where to even start? Volumes can and have been written on this topic, but as ... Read More
The Power of Twitter is the Hashtag
I finally get it. I signed up for Twitter more than a year ago, have dabbled with it a couple of times, attempted to follow both people I know and people I don’t, and quickly gave up on it each time. Though my work often involves questions on how ... Read More
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