Social Learning Systems

An Introduction to Social Media - Jane Hart's Great Resource

Jane Hart provides a fabulous resource about Social Media on her C4LPT (Centre for Learning and Performance Technology) site.

Check out this fabulous reference!

Introduction to Social Media

Knowledge Management and Collaboration Create Knowledge Sharing - from Baseline

A very good series on knowledge management and collaboration.

Knowledge Management and Collaboration Create Knowledge Sharing

Baseline recently conducted a study of 342 managers knowledgeable about their company’s usage of knowledge management and collaboration technologies.

According to the survey results, 47 percent of companies have formal knowledge management initiatives or are planning them.  

 

 

 What’s the downside of using social networking to power knowledge sharing? Loss of control. “You have to have a tolerance for a certain amount of chaos or disorganization,” says AIIM’s Mancini. “You can’t anticipate many of the outcomes, so don’t try to over-engineer the whole thing.”

 

Goodbye to the Office - Seth Godin

 I enjoyed this article by Seth Godin. For years, I have worked in partly or fully remote roles and have managed staff located in various locations around the world. I am amazed that there are still many managers and executives that don't "trust" the idea that employees can be perfectly productive (maybe even more productive) without commuting and sitting in "the" office all day.

Seth provides some excellent points about WHY we work in offices in the first place, and why, in the 21st Century, this doesn't make nearly as much sense as it did before.

SETH's BLOG - GOODBYE TO THE OFFICE

eLearn Magazine - A great resource - On Designing, Launching, and Teaching an e-Course

eLearn Magazine is a terrific resource for our industry.

Teaching an e-Course The recent July 1 interview with Linda Formichelli talks about teaching an e-Course. "The benefits are that you get to work one-on-one with students and feel inspired as you watch them learn and succeed. And of course, I can't forget to mention that e-courses do bring in income! "