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March 14, 2012
Social Learning Starts with Online CoPs

Two key characteristics of online CoPs set them apart from all other traditional methods of group collaboration. Unlike apprenticeships, brown bag lunches, or other informal methods of collaboration where information can be lost unless individuals take it upon themselves to spread knowledge, online exchanges allow you to capture, tag, and categorize information to easily search for later use. Secondly, this information can be accessed from anywhere around the world at any time.

By Brandon Williams, Consultant, The Educe Group

If you build it, will they really come? Drive the adoption of enterprise-wide social learning technology by creating thriving online communities of practice.

What Is a Community of Practice?

February 7, 2012
Conference Highlight: Get in with the Crowd: Engaging through Social Media

Learning is a social process, so consider social media to support your training process.

 

Training 2012 Conference & Expo speaker Allison DeTitto shows how social media is as easy as Marketing 101.

January 17, 2012
Training Gets More Social

Training’s 2012 New Year’s resolution is to expand its presence throughout social media. This January, you will see rich content published on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+, all linking back to our new “Daily Update” tab on www. Trainingmag.com. To help you join the conversation, here are a few tips for a positive social media experience.

By Lorri Freifeld, Editor, Trainingmagazine

Training’s 2012 New Year’s resolution is to expand its presence throughout social media. This January, you will see rich content published on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+, all linking back to our new “Daily Update” tab on http://www.TrainingMag.com. To help you “join the conversation,” here are a few tips for a positive social media experience:

December 1, 2011
Harnessing the Power of Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing enables a company to broadcast an issue to a diverse audience using Web-based collaboration solutions and asks them to contribute ideas to solve the problem. Organizations that have tried this have developed surprising solutions to internal problems and innovation needs.

By Diane Youden, Principal, PwC

October 7, 2011
Training Today: Social Work?

More than half (51 percent) of chief information officer (CIO) respondents said they permit employees to use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook on the job as long as it’s for business purposes, according to a Robert Half Technology survey of more than 1,400 CIOs from companies across the U.S. with 100 or more employees. This is up from 19 percent in 2009.

September 20, 2011
The LinkedIn Success Secret

The best measure of a good networker is not how many connections you have but how many you create. And this is the easiest thing you can do for anyone. You don’t need any ability to sell or goodies to give away. All you need is the willingness to find valuable connections and pass them to others. So as you approach all of your actions on LinkedIn, think about how you can make yourself more valuable to those you engage.

By Flyn Penoyer, Founder, Online Business Networker

There is one thing I have done from the first day I was on LinkedIn that I think is a big part of my success.

I made myself invaluable!

I have no idea how you would measure the amount of success this type of activity has brought me over the almost six years I’ve been on LinkedIn.

September 13, 2011
Social Media: Is It Worth Your Time and Resources?

The answer is a resounding “Yes.” The Internet and various social media platforms give us the ability to interact with anyone who chooses to engage with us. There are many tools available today to use in communicating with your customers. Consider asking members of your team who are already knowledgeable or engaged in social media to assist you by being a voice of the company.

By Dulce Gonell-Holderby, Training Account Manager, Signature Worldwide

Did you know that Skittles candy has more than 16.7 million likes (fans) on Facebook? California Pizza Kitchen has more than 112,000; just five months ago, the number was less than 30,000. And what about Under Armour? It now has 700,000-plus fans and its Facebook pages have some of the best graphics I have ever seen for fan pages…talk about “Charged.” Check them out.

July 25, 2011
Having Fun While Learning in So-Lo-Mo

Technology is like air—we only become fully aware of it in its absence. If the Internet is down at work, we wander around aimlessly until it comes back up. If we can’t get a signal on our Smartphone to check out our Facebook page, our blood pressure rises to peak levels. Today, technology has become so pervasive in our daily lives that we have become desensitized to how much it is influencing how we connect, communicate, collaborate, and learn.

By Tony O’Driscoll

Technology is like air—we only become fully aware of it in its absence. If the Internet is down at work, we wander around aimlessly until it comes back up. If we can’t get a signal on our Smartphone to check out our Facebook page, check in on Four Square, or play Mafia Wars on demand, our blood pressure rises to peak levels. Today, technology has become so pervasive in our daily lives that we have become desensitized to how much it is influencing how we connect, communicate, collaborate, and learn.

June 6, 2011
How-To: Reinforce Training

Training is not an end to a means. It’s part of the journey. When you’re going on a trip, typically you plan ahead and buy tickets, make reservations, and line up transportation. With training, you need to do the same thing. You must choose your destination before you plot your course. This is why you should include behavior reinforcement in your training design—it’s part of planning how you’re going to get where you want to go.

By Kendra Lee

Training is not an end to a means. It’s part of the journey.

When you’re going on a trip, typically you plan ahead and buy tickets, make reservations, and line up transportation. With training, you need to do the same thing. You must choose your destination before you plot your course. This is why you should include behavior reinforcement in your training design—it’s part of planning how you’re going to get where you want to go.

May 18, 2011
4 Ways to Make Social Technologies Relevant to Your Business

If you want to be the training Zen master of social tools, says Scott Klososky, a former CEO and author of the new books, “Enterprise Social Technology” and “The Velocity Manifesto,” “then first understand the need to implement elements of social technology that will both drive revenues, and cut back office costs. Too many people think of social tools as only being for sales and marketing when, in reality, there are valuable uses in the back office.”

By Margery Weinstein

May 3, 2011
3 Social Networking Channels Managers Must Master

Don’t make the mistake of thinking social networking is all about telling the world what you had for breakfast. Or only an obsession of geeks. Just the opposite: Social networking has reached a tipping point. It’s transforming the way managers gather information, inform, negotiate, motivate, inspire, instruct, empower, forecast, and sell. Here are 14 principles you can use for effective networking.

By Bill Rosenthal, CEO, Communispond Inc.

April 22, 2011
6 Proven Principles of Workplace Learning

These six foundational principles are mission-critical learning and development levers for any business struggling to make heads or tails of the current learning climate. They are ground rules that can be built upon as business scenarios shift.

By Elizabeth Griep, Vice President, Advanced Workplace Learning, The Forum Corp.

Business’ rapid pace and the workforce’s changing face increasingly are altering the way in which we learn on the job, raising new organizational challenges best met by development opportunities based on proven principles of workplace learning.

April 12, 2011
Using Social Media to Evaluate Training Results

Prior to the training, create a forum for communication between participants and trainers. For example, create a Facebook Group with restricted privacy settings or member-only LinkedIn Groups. Continued communication after training allows you to assess participant attitudes and hear about successes or frustrations. The relaxed feel of these sites overcomes the challenges of finding time for a conference call as a post-training activity due to conflicting work schedules.

By Claudine Trontin, Training Account Manager, Signature Worldwide

October 1, 2010
Are You LinkedIn?

Professional connections can win you a job. It turns out they also can win your employees a top-notch learning organization. Find out how four Training Top 125 winners are making the most out of social networking.

By Margery Weinstein