social media
Social Media Enriching MLK Day
It's easy to find people decrying social media as the end of traditional culture. (Never mind that they're ranting on their blog to an audience that wouldn't exist without social media...) But today on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I'm experiencing the opposite going on. This is a holiday that a ... Read More
Realigning Technology for Success
In my last post, I talked about how traditional consulting, implementation, training, and support organizations are starting to realign around a more unified "customer success" team. Unfortunately, the technology to support these teams has not made this same realignment. h4. Siloed Technology The technology systems that support these folks in their ... 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
Key Takeaways from Day 1 of Learning 2009 AND The Power of the Back Channel for Learning
Sat in a bunch of great sessions today at Masie’s Learning 2009 conference (#L2009). Had a chance to tweet some of the things that caught my attention, and would have tweeted much more if my phone battery hadn’t died. (Takeaway #1: cell phone does not get a charge off your ... Read More
The power of social networking for feedback, collaboration, and (let’s just say it) disruption
Facebook recently changed its interface. Again. The rumblings were immediate. My favorite was this: Overheard in the Newsroom #2038: Metro editor: "I don't know how people expect me to get any work done when I'm trying to figure out this new Facebook format." Very soon after the complaints came the ... Read More
Crowdsourcing and Individual Creativity
Beth, I think you had some great points in your last post If We Can Crowdsource Products, Why Not Learning?, but it struck me as maybe too far on the side of the "collective" vs. "individual inspiration". You end with "If the collective thoughts of random strangers can design ... 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
Virtual Meets Social: Great Ideas from Jeremiah
I’ve long been a fan and follower of soon-to-be-moving-on Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang. He blogs extensively about the rapidly changing world of social media. Most of his analysis is from a marketing perspective, but I often find it very applicable to a training context as well. Given that corporate ... 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
It’s not a choice: SCORM vs Social Learning
A recent question on LinkedIn bubbled up a conversation I've been having a lot with myself lately. The question was about whether the new social learning technologies are going to replace SCORM. It seems like our profession is always arguing about something going away, something getting replaced, and creating new terms ... Read More
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