Social Learning — namely, the use of social media in the workplace to foster learning, collaboration, networking, knowledge sharing, and communications — has taken on a kind of religious fervor among learning practitioners during the past couple years.  And not without good reason: It often creates more powerful and enduring learning experiences; it helps people establish and leverage social connections to accelerate the distribution and sharing of experiences, content and guidance; and it allows learners to be more productive, learn faster and work smarter. MORE >>

Recent advancements in social media make it possible for you to take peer-to-peer learning to a new level with a surprisingly low commitment in terms of time and money. Is it safe to use social media for learning? The good news is that social media will bring many discussions and content exchanges, good and bad, to the surface where the information in those exchanges can be seen and appropriately addressed. Good social media policies will help contain corporate risk and liabilities. Is peer-to-peer learning safe? Guess what? MORE >>

Organizations are either actively considering or have recently started deploying enterprise social media to enable social learning. Old ways of measuring the productivity and success of a learning community were appropriate for traditional, linear kinds of training, but not for more advanced, collaborative (or social) learning environments. Tagged: learning, learning community, social learning. Tags: Events social learning learning learning community How healthy are your learning communities……really?  MORE >>

An interesting exercise is to “map” a social media solution to the framework and then think about what would happen if you extend it to other “realms.”  will spend more time thinking about how we might improve the social learning experience whilst we “consume”, “contribute”, and “interact” with others.  Tags: Events Ideas social learning virtuality My colleague ( Teemu Arina ) recently attended the Mobile Monday conference in Amsterdam.  He suggested that I view a presentation made by Joe Pine II called “Multiverse.”  link].  . For example:  . Tagged: virtuality. MORE >>

I recommend this podcast to individuals who are very interested in “social learning&# and who have a desire to get a bit deeper into the subject. and Social Media technologies and approaches into a “learning journey&# that is historically “delivered&# in a formal way. would appreciate hearing your comments and feedback – and hearing about your experiences using social media to enable learning in your organization. I made this podcast in Dec 2008 in order to describe a “vision&# for the future of learning in a business setting. MORE >>