Jane's Pick of the Day

Get up to speed with social media, social learning and social business

2012-01-27T16:37:39+00:00

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 a community of practice
Guidance on how to set up and maintain a Community of Practice

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.

Internet Time Alliance Insights: the presentation

2012-01-26T10:26:58+00:00

My colleague Harold Jarche has created the following presentation which brings together some thoughts (in the form of short quotes) about workplace transformation from each the 5 Principals of the Internet Time Alliance (ITA).

ITA Insights 2012

When Mark Britz tweeted about this slideset, he said

ITA Insights 2012 slideshare.net/jarche/ita-ins… via @slideshare / Quote on slide 8 now on my Org email signature. — mark britz (@britz) January 25, 2012

Which quote would you use on your email signature?

We have also integrated our best articles into our new website, in a section called Insights, so if you are looking for more in-depth thinking, take a look there too.

Jane Hart in conversation with Jane Bozarth: Webinar

2012-01-25T13:29:00+00:00

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.

Introducing the Social Learning Centre

2012-01-23T10:05:56+00:00

I’d like to introduce you to my latest venture, which I’ve been working on over the last few weeks with a number of early users: the Social Learning Centre.

The Social Learning Centre is the place where learning professionals can find out more about the use of social media for learning, as well as exchange thoughts and ideas with their peers and leading practitioners and thought leaders around the world. Become a member of this global learning community and get involved as follows:

Take part in scheduled (or on demand) online programmes - which offer a structured approach to learning about social learning
Participate in webinars - where I will be having conversations with leading practitioners and thought leaders
Join a range of special interest groups - for continuous updates and discussions on social learning topics.

In addition to these Community activities, the Social Learning Centre also aggregates a number of resources about social learning, which can be viewed without being a member.

To become a member of the Social Learning Centre‘s global community of learning professionals: register for a free account on the site, and this will enable you to join any of the public groups set up for the interest groups, webinars and some social programmes. Note: a number of the online programmes require a small fee to join.

If you want to keep up to date with what’s happening at the Social Learning Centre, you can read the News here and/or subscribe to the news feed.

I’ll be featuring some of the current and upcoming activities at the Social Learning Centre in further blog posts during this launch week.

Top 20 Tools 2007-2011

2012-01-17T12:06:29+00:00

As you will know I finalised the 5th Annual survey of Top 100 Tools for Learning in the middle of November 2011, and at that time placed the presentation on Slideshare. I’ve just noticed that in the subsequent two months it has been viewed over 200,000 times!

You will also know, Twitter topped the list again for the 3rd year running, although in 2008 it was only ranked 11th and in 2007 it was 43rd on the list.

This made me wonder what the best performing tools were over the last 5 years. Would Twitter top the list again?

So I did some calculations and to see the list of the top 20 tools over the last 5 years, please read the post on my C4LPT blog.

Workplace Performance Services: More than just Training

2012-01-09T11:31:03+00:00

In his recent post, Informal Learning , 95% solution, Harold Jarche provides the reason why many workplace learning professionals can only think about “informal learning” and “social learning” in terms of how they can manage them within a blended training solution – rather than simply support them, as they happen, naturally and continuously, in the workflow.

“Since the latter half of the 20th century, we have gone through a period where training departments have been directed to control organizational learning. It was part of the Taylorist, industrial model that also compartmentalized work and ensured that only managers were allowed to make decisions. In this context, only training professionals were allowed to talk about learning.”

But to be fair, it is not just Training Departments that think like this, there are still many people in other parts of the business that believe that “learning” has to be “organised” or “packaged up” (in the form of “training”) to be seen as a valid solution to a problem … Read the rest of the article heret

2012: The Year of Learning in a Social Business

2011-12-30T10:16:01+00:00

Predictions for an upcoming new year are inevitably based on the “flow” from the current year, so if you have taken a look at my Top 100 articles of 2011 (or even my complete 2011 Reading List), you will not be surprised to hear that many predict that 2012 will be the “Year of Social Business“.

Up to now, for many organisations, Social Business has been about social … Read the rest of this post on the C4LPT blog