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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange of Information by Paul on March 14, 2011 in social learning Most of us in the adult learning industry have already found and incorporated Twitter into our everyday lives.

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Supercomputer's Win on Jeopardy: Little Comfort to Those.

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The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me. In fact, the competition wasn’t close; the computer came away with nearly four times as much money as the closest nearest competitor. A lot of people, apparently, agree.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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Like many enterprise learning companies, we are actively brainstorming ways to incorporate collaborative Web 2.0 technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. In dollar figures, spending is minimal.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. That’s right, FACEBOOK!

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Make Learning An Experience. Blend It! | Social Learning Blog

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by Michael on March 7, 2011 in blended learning If you still believe that “classroom learning is the best learning” for your training and learning programs, I have some news for you. How do you keep your learners motivated and engaged? Please feel free to post your suggestions! Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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What Can Charlie Sheen Teach Us About Internal Marketing? | Social.

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Six months from now, I doubt Sheen will still be in the news, because the ultimate lack of substance will begin to bore his current following. Make it interesting and unexpected, and your employees will take notice. That said, neither you nor Sheen can live on zany comments alone. You can avoid this mistake by blending the approaches.

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Microsoft So.cl: An Experiment In Social + Search + Learning

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Is it the next Facebook? starts by offering Facebook credentials as a log-in choice but not Twitter, replaced by Windows Live. Microsoft has an investment in Facebook so it wouldn’t want to create a competitor to Facebook. Fox news says “So.cl distinguishes itself by focusing on learning and education.