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The Social Media Cigarette Break

Clark Quinn

He opined that the new ‘cigarette’ break was the social media break where employees will stand outside with their mobile phone and check in on their social networks. The reason, of course, being that their companies block social media access via their IT infrastructure. Tags: social strategy.

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The Smart Worker : relies on a trusted network of friends and colleagues

Jane Hart

What is different though, for many Millenials – as well as (indeed) for many other older workers – is that they now have quick and easy access to a much wider group of friends and colleagues through their online social networks, who they can call on for help.

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7 big opportunities that MOOCs offer corporates

E-Learning Provocateur

Whether it be via the online discussion forum, on one of the associated social media groups, or at a local meetup, suddenly you are introduced to a world of people who are passionate and knowledgeable about the topic. By educating them, you build up your goodwill and engender a sense of trust in your brand. Networking.

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What is social learning?

From the Coleface

Last week I attended #SLCONF , a conference on social learning. Social learning is a zeitgeisty term which is very much in the early stages of the Gartner hype cycle for most organisations. I participated to find out more about what social learning is and what L&D practitioners should be doing about it/ with it.

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Bad Management Practices

The Performance Improvement Blog

Overdone Policy Manuals. Social Media Thought Police. One is “Social Media Thought Police”. This is the futile practice of trying to control social media, such as Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter, that employees might use at work. Even worse, I still hear about no-email and no-Web policies.

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Drivers of Yammer use in the corporate sector

E-Learning Provocateur

Employees presumably trust their team mates more than they do HR, IT, or whoever “owns” Yammer in the workplace. I guess a formal usage policy is irrelevant to intrinsically motivated users, while prizes, points and other forms of extrinsic motivation are similarly redundant. You would be a clown to behave otherwise!

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4 Ways to Reward Learners for Sharing Your Course

LearnDash

People trust recommendations from those they know, and while some of that will happen naturally through word of mouth, you can help the process along with a few, well-placed incentives. Offer a prize give-away for social media shares. Offer credit points or badges for social media shares or referrals.

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