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Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM GMT

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“A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation.” (Wikipedia)

This is a new group for all members of the Social Learning Centre to exchange thoughts, ideas, resources, etc on general items of interest related to the social learning.

One:

I’ve enabled the Activity stream so you can get a better view of site-wide activity.  You can use this to post into the groups of which you are a member (and these are listed in the pull-down menu), so that group members are notified of it.  Note, if you post into your Profile – it will only be visible in the Activity stream and in your profile.

Two:

Updates in the group and site-wide Activity stream are now editable within 10 minutes of posting – so if you realise you made a typo, you can now easily correct it.

Remember, that to get email notifications from the Centre – of new links, resources and discussions, etc –  you will need to join the relevant interest groups. During January I added a few more interest groups to the list including Google applications for Learning, Social Learning Theory, Meet the ITA Team  and Community Leadership.  But you will find the full list of interest groups here.

What’s coming up in February?

First of all, the Introduction to social learning in the workplace programme begins on 20 February. I want to build a small group of participants with a common interest, and there are a few places left., so let me know if you would like to join this one. Details are on the linked page.

Secondly, on 22 February, I have my first In Conversation with .. webinar, with Jane Bozarth. This is going to be fun. It won’t be the normal presentational-style webinar, but a dialogue where I talk to Jane about her job, her books, and her thoughts about the use of social media in the workplace. Joining instructions once again are on the In conversation with Jane Bozarth webinar page.

I am lining up a number of great guests for this series of webinars; and you can find out who’s coming in the Webinars list.

At the Social Learning Centre I am going to be hosting a number of short online “programmes” about social media, social learning and social business. These “programmes” will use a very informal, social, collaborative approach: there will be no formal classes and no monitoring/management of your learning in a LMS. Rather the programmes will be hosted in dedicated group spaces on the Social Learning Centre (which is powered by a social and collaboration platform).

Each day there will be an “activity” that consists of an introduction to the topic with links to additional reading (if desired), an individual or group activity, and a group discussion question to encourage the exchange of thoughts, ideas, experiences and resources of participants.

Here are three upcoming programmes. Follow the links to find out more about them, their agenda as well as how to join up – currently there is a special launch price available.

20 February – 2 March 10 days (weekdays only)
An introduction to social learning in the workplace
How social media is impacting the way that we work and learn in the workplace, and how L&D can support learning more widely in their organisations.

12-23 March 10 days (weekdays only
How to create and sustain an online community
Guidance on how to set up and maintain an online community

16-27 April 10 days (weekdays only)
Using social media in a formal learning programme
Ideas for how to use social media in a formal learning programme - classroom based and/or online.

More programmes to come.

In my new monthly series of webinars at the Social Learning Centre I will be talking to industry practitioners and thought leaders from around the world about their work with social media and their current thinking about its use in the workplace.

I am very pleased to announce that my friend, Jane Bozarth has agreed to be my first webinar guest. I’m sure you all know Jane, as she has written lots of useful practical e-learning books including the recently published Social Media for Trainers, and speaks widely about the use of social media in the workplace.

I’ll be talking to Jane about her job as the Elearning Coordinator for the North Carolina, USA, Office of State Personnel, about her book, and also about some of the myths around the use of social media in the workplace.

The In Conversation with Jane Bozarth webinar is scheduled for
Wednesday 22 February
18.30-19.30 pm GMT, 13.30-14.30 pm ET, 10.30-11.30 am PT

As these webinars won’t be traditional presentational-type webinars, but a dialogue with my guests, I also want to include questions from the audience.too, so if you’d like to find out more about this webinar, how to register and how to leave your questions for Jane, you can do so HERE. I hope you can join us.

BTW I’m gathering together a line up of future guests, and those that have agreed so far, are listed on the Webinars page.

As a final note, the picture of us together was taken at DevLearn 2010 in San Francisco, as we were just about to start a live #rnchat Twitter session.

If you are interested in exchanging thoughts and ideas as well as resources about leading (aka managing) communities – whether of practice, interest or for  learning, come and join this group

If you aren’t already a member of the Social Learning Centre, you will need to register for an account first.

Rather than use traditional PR approaches, we”ll be talking about the Social Learning Centre in blog posts, on Facebook, Twitter, Googlle+ and other social media channels.

Help us to spread the word!

Meet the ITA Team  NEW Meet the members of the Internet Time Alliance, Jay Cross, Charles Jennings, Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn and Jay Cross. They are five workplace performance practitioners, connected to extensive international networks, spread across nine time zones, who collaborate and innovate in Internet time.

Social Learning Theory  NEW Join this group if you would like to discuss social learning theory and/or share general resources about social learning

See the full list of interest groups here