Top 10 social enterprise tools
Editor’s note: A useful list of 10 of the offerings in this space, including Salesforce Chatter, Moxie Software,Telligent and IBM Connections.
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Social media – the followership
Editor’s note: A ‘follower’s’ perspective on why leaders should tweet their heart out.
What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012
Editor’s note: Some interesting insights and analysis into how social tools could be better used in corporates based on Jane Hart’s latest list of the top 100 tools for learning.
The Glass Wall: Managing the social network for 21st century leadership
Editor’s note: An interesting experiment that combines an action learning set with social networking. Can organisations develop ways of integrating 21st century phenomena, such as crowdsourcing, with cutting edge learning and development techniques, such as action learning?
Enterprise social media: Why CIOs are doing it wrong
Editor’s note: This quote sums up this analysis: ‘Underneath social media is a culture change and a mind change. And in order to have a culture and a mind change you have to be willing to do things differently and think differently and solve problems differently.’
Three questions to Dr Jane Bozarth
Following her session on social media for trainers at the 2012 Learning Live conference, LearnPatch…
A quick case for social technologies
Editor’s note: Harold Jarche has pulled together a 13-slide deck making the case for social technologies. If it is a case you are having to make then this is a must-read.
Make the most of #LearningLive backchannel
Editor’s note: What is an event Twitter backchannel and how useful is one if you cannot attend an event? Find out in this article and follow the event tweeters from the event over the next two days.
Social networking: the benefits outweigh the constraints
Editor’s note: ‘You are in the process of change in order to add new dimensions of performance: to do what you do better, or do radically new things.’ Now is the time for organisations, and learning professionals, to embrace social media technologies to help support performance and deliver that change.
Social media’s productivity payoff
Editor’s note: Researchers from the McKinsey Global Institute lift the lid on the potential value to business of social technology – and that is the potential to vastly improve collaboration, communication and learning.
The current state of social networks
Editor’s note: A great infographic based on more than 50 social networks. A good at-a-glance reference to what’s popular and for whom.
Yammer introduces in-site training services with Mindflash
Editor’s note: While Yammer and Microsoft get to know each other, the enterprise social network has agreed a deal with online training company Mindflash to deliver its training content. This is just one of a set of developments at Yammer – expect more to come soon.