Over at the Social Learning Camp I heard some good tips from Mark Oehlert on using Delicious bookmarking within organizations as a way of creating a knowledge base and a culture of knowledge sharing. The idea that you can turn a solitary action in to a community action is pretty... more
Presented by Aaron Silvers and Mark Oehlert in the Social Learning Camp, I knew this topic was going to be interesting. The discussion started with a question, that was never really answered. In fact, as suspected this whole topic is pretty airy fairy because in order to measure social learning,... more
Mark Oehlert is running the Social Learning Camp at DevLearn 2009 and I just attended his session on ‘The Big Three of Social Media / Social Learning: Fear, Control and Trust’. Here’s a few takeaways from his talk which surrounded corporate culture and their objections to adopting social media, why... more
I just want to share some interesting results I found from a Social Learning poll, designed by participants in the Masie Center Social Learning Lab and Seminar and done March 12th, 2009. It was sent out to Learning TRENDS readers – Global Learning Professionals, to which they received 1069 responses.... more
It looks like Web 2.0 online training and eLearning systems have reached another plateau and they’re in need of the next stage of development: the integration of social and collaborative tools to enhance the learning process. From a technical point of view I find this very exciting because historically Learning... more
It’s been talked about for years, but ‘Social Learning’ is more recently becoming the big buzz word in learning, and you should probably pay attention because it’s being pegged as the next generation of eLearning (heavily debated of course, as is everything in learning). My definition of ‘social learning’ as... more
There’s a great group on Twitter called #lrnchat that meet every week to talk ‘learning’. Learning technology, instructional design, semantics – you name it, it gets discussed. Each week questions are submitted to the Lrnchat blog and one is chosen to be the topic of discussion for the chat time... more
You’ll probably be hearing a lot more of the term ‘electronic water cooler’, if you haven’t noticed it already. It’s a reference to the ideas and discussions that come up while hovering around the office water cooler, that are now happening online. Any social media tool (blogs, wikis, Facebook) could... more
To be totally honest, I didn’t like Twitter when I signed up. I didn’t understand the point of it. To me it was just another social network to waste my time. But now I know that you can’t grasp the full potential of what’s going on in Twitter using just... more
How to Reply to a Tweet Once you start getting followers (which you will if you’re following people!) you’ll need to learn a few of the tricks. If you want to Reply to someone’s update then you can either hover on their update and click the arrow that appears on... more
