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Success Formula for Discussion Forums in Financial Services

Tony Karrer

I received a question this week related to Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank : I successfully launched a discussion forum for a small group of lending assistants within my bank. That forum is still up and running. I could go on… but I’m sure you get the picture. Great question.

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Business applications of Twitter

E-Learning Provocateur

With upwards of 20 million Twitter users around the world, companies should at the very least be scanning this massive public forum to keep tabs on what people are saying about them. Tags: Twitter informal learning social media social networking enterprise 2.0 I share my knowledge, and I learn a lot more in return.

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Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector

E-Learning Provocateur

Nonetheless, some sort of management of the forum is considered important in driving its use. In the meantime, bear in mind that social forums grow organically. Otherwise, why would they bother? The placement of Community Manager at this tier pleasantly surprised me, given the pool of respondents.

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Introducing the Social Intranet Index

E-Learning Provocateur

An intranet with an SII of 6 integrates social media elements such as a discussion forum, blogs and wikis into a single sign-on solution. The profiles are rich (including photos, contact details and subject matter expertise) and integrate with the other components of the intranet (eg the discussion forum) to facilitate social networking.

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Rise of the smart cities

E-Learning Provocateur

Participate in discussion forums. Tags: m-learning enterprise 2.0 But they could also… Catch the breaking news in their industry sector. Read blogs. Explore wikis. Exchange knowledge on Twitter. Watch vodcasts. Complete online courses. Show me the money. challenges positives connectivity wireless.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms, discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated as part of the learning experience. This is the same problem that Andrew McAfee discusses ERP vs. Enterprise 2.0.

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See the wood for the SMEs

E-Learning Provocateur

My point is, when we seek subject matter expertise for a project, a forum, a working group, an advisory board, or merely to answer a question, we might not see the wood for the trees are in the way. She also recently emigrated from China – you know, that consumer market you want to break into.

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