Last week I posted about the 140 University service that I had set up to demonstrate the potential of Twitter and Facebook as formal learning tools - to deliver and share "classes" in the form of daily knowledge nuggets. In the short time this has been live, it has proven to be a popular idea, and at the time of writing there are now over 320 followers on Twitter and over 120 Facebook fans, with many others simply reading the archived nuggets at the website.
I have now set up a "sister service" that operates along the same lines, but is for people to ...
"discover and share daily knowledge and skill nuggets with interesting links - web pages, videos, podcasts and other free resources via Twitter, Yammer or Facebook- in less than 140 characters - to support their personal productivity and performance in the workplace."
It is the first day of the Learning Technologies Conference in London, where I am involved in a number of sessions, so I thought this was a good day to launch the service formally.
This free service is called the 140 Learning Centre. Follow the link for full information about it.
I'd like to think that it demonstrates the way that L&D departments could use these tools to provide relevant and useful resources in an ongoing way to their employeers, which they can then comment on as well as contribute to, thereby build a useful organisational knowledge base of resources.
