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Key Social Learning Resources: Part 9

A nice selection of posts about social learning and social media for learning this week.

1 – In the first article this week, How the web has powered the Web for 20 years, WebWorkerDaily plots the role of Web technologies in business, summarising as follows:

“The net result of all the technological developments outlined above has been to change the very fabric of how we work. We now live in

… Read the rest of the article here

See you at #DevLearn

I’m just about to start packing to fly to Las Vegas tomorrow for DevLearn 2011, where
I’m going to be hosting the Management Xchange stage  on 2nd and 3rd November:

“The Management Xchange offers practical approaches for addressing the key issues involved in successful eLearning management. The Xchange showcases well-known learning experts, learning and training managers, and executives who will intimately share with you their knowledge, insights, and experiences on a wide range of learning management topics.”

You can view the schedule of presentations HERE.

If you are going to be at DevLearn, please come and say hello.

And for those of you who can’t make it, you can follow the Twitter backchannel at #DevLearn

You can’t manage informal learning – only use of informal media

Recently I’ve been reading more and more blog posts and articles that talk of how to “manage informal learning”, so I thought it was time for another post of my own that tries to explain how this is actually misleading, and in fact misses the big picture in terms of the importance of informal learning in the workplace, and L&D’s role in supporting it.

Read the rest of the article here

Google Plus currently highest ranked NEW tool on the Top 100 Tools List 2011

As voting for this year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 draws to a close  Google Plus has now moved into 26th place on the list, and is now the top new tool on the list.  You can view the current state of the list HERE.

But there’s still time to vote for your favourite tools – voting closes in just over 2 weeks time on Sunday 13 November 2011.  Find out how to vote HERE.

Many thanks to the nearly 400 contributions who have voted so far this year.

Do you really need separate social learning tools or platforms in the workplace? Part 2 - 6 ways to integrate learning into the workflow

In Part One  of this series of blog postings, I asked the question:

“As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?”

In this post I am going to be taking a look at 6 ways organisations are already integrating learning into their workflow systems – so that the same… Read the rest here

Key Social Learning Resources: Part 8

Here are 5 more resources this week that look at social approaches to working and learning – and in particular the new mindset required.

1 – The Six Attitudes Leaders take towards Social Media, in Harvard Business Review, describes the six basic categories that business leader attitudes toward social media fall into.  Why is this important?

“… their attitude matters, a lot. Social media is about people, not technology. Its business

… Read the rest here

Do you really need separate social learning tools or platforms in the workplace? Part 1

We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and  platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace?

As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?

Read the rest of the article here

Do you really need separate social learning tools or platforms in the workplace? Part 1

We are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and  platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace?

As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?

Read the rest of the article here

Key social learning resources: Part 7

Here are 5 more resources I’ve found this week that look at different social approaches to working and learning. 

1 – The first one this week is an article I wrote for the E-Learning Council, Social Media + Learning = more than Social Learning.  I cover quite a bit of ground in this article, but in this quote I focus on the use of the term “social learning”.

“But now with the emergence of social tools, we have moved into the Social Era, and this time the word “Social” is being prefixed to old words to form new terms like Social Business, Social Media Marketing, etc. The same has of course happened with Learning, and this had led to the increasing use of the term “Social Learning”. Unfortunately, there are a few problems with this term. Firstly, it is often used to refer solely to the use of social media within formal courses, but secondly, and more importantly, it also conflicts with the existing term “social learning” which refers to ALL learning that happens socially with others – i.e. not just that in formal learning contexts – both social-media-powered and not.

Read the full posting here

Social Media + Learning = much more than Social Learning

Just in case you haven't seen the tweets about this, my recent article for the E-Learning Council is now  available on their website here:

Social Learning +Learning = much more than Social Learning