Social Learning Systems

Twitter Handles for Fast Company's List of Top On-line Influencers

They aren't who we would think they'd be...

 

The top 10 on-line influencers according to Fast Company's The Influence Project were:

1. Jeremy Schoemaker
2. Shefqet Avdullau
3. Tod Sacerdoti
4. Cory Boatright
5. Greg Clement
6. Frank Kovacs
7. Sebastian Saldarriaga
8. James Dunn
9. Richard Lee
10. Pace Lattin

Read entire article here.

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Twitter Tips for Corporate Learning

One of the most common misconceptions about Twitter is that people are just posting what they had for breakfast and other miscellaneous (dare I say useless?) facts. Well, those people are out there, but the fact is, they are likely not a part of the numerous substantive conversations taking place on Twitter. 
 
Twitter offers you the opportunity to curate a community in which you can share bite-size, high-value tweets as part of an ongoing conversation around a particular topic. So how does this apply to corporate learning? A few uses just off the top of my head…
 

• Have learners “livetweet” classroom training
• Set up a course “hashtag” so participants can keep conversation going
• Have learners identify and “follow” virtual mentors to learn from
• Network, share best practices and find answers to your greatest HR and training challenges

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One of the most common misconceptions about Twitter is that people are just posting what they had for breakfast and other miscellaneous (dare I say useless?) facts. Well, those people are out there, but the fact is, they are likely not a part of the numerous substantive conversations taking place on Twitter. 
 
Twitter offers you the opportunity to curate a community in which you can share bite-size, high-value tweets as part of an ongoing conversation around a particular topic. So how does this apply to corporate learning? A few uses just off the top of my head…
 

• Have learners “livetweet” classroom training
• Set up a course “hashtag” so participants can keep conversation going
• Have learners identify and “follow” virtual mentors to learn from
• Network, share best practices and find answers to your greatest HR and training challenges

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

Twitter for Those Who Don't Get It

Here's a great blog about explaining why we love Twitter to those who don't understand its value. The article is from Diana Adams and the entire text can be found here.

Here is a summary of her 5 Tips for explaining Twitter:

1. Remember that just because Twitter is special to you doesn’t mean it’s going to be special to everyone you talk to about it. Not everyone will love Twitter like you do... so don't try to convert them.

2. Explain Twitter by describing it as sending short emails that lots of people can see. I like to share information and links related to my business, and I follow people that have the same interests, and I learn from them. It is about much more than tweeting what we had for breakfast, but because we do tweet what we had for breakfast, there is a very personal aspect that is light-hearted and fun.

3. Next, I explain that if they are going to get on Twitter, they will probably want to plan to devote at least 15-30 minutes each day to it, otherwise it’s tough to build those new relationships. Why is that? Because Twitter is REAL LIFE and you cannot build real life relationships by always doing the “tweet and run”.

4. There is a wealth of information on Twitter.  It’s all about who you follow!

5. Last but not least, explain that Twitter is fun. Twitter is a fun distraction that does not ask for a lot in return.

Great Tips for How to RETWEET

Here is an excellent article from Ruhani Rabin full of suggestions for retweeting on Twitter.

Some suggestions on why you want to RETWEET:

• A post has any news or information that you want to share with others
• A post that has helpful information that can help out other users of similar interests
• Information exchange and appreciate good tweets
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The most important part - don't forget the limitation of 140 characters. Every time you re-tweet, it can easily add up to 10 characters into the topic. He recommends setting your re-tweeted or tweeted post limit to 120 characters. That way you will have free space if someone wants to re-tweet your post.

http://www.ruhanirabin.com/