Once again, it's time to start worrying about a new generation coming into the workforce.  In fact, the worrying has already begun. A recent study showed that managers are not excited to welcome Generation Z, which has already begun to enter the workforce. They're voicing concerns familiar to anyone who has ever read a think […]

If you want to know what the future workplace employee looks like, just take a look at what K-12 educators are doing. I used to think there was very little connection between k-12 education and corporate training. And while I still see significant differences, I look to our education system often to see what type […]

If you want to understand the world of social media there are hundreds of "experts" and "gurus" ready to jump at the chance to help you. But if you want to learn about how social media/networks impact your enterprise and it's learning culture, there is only one...okay 2.  Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham have updated […]

Cindi looks at the screen excited to learn something new. Her professional license is up for renewal soon. She needs 2 more continuing education credits before the end of the week. Thankfully, there are more online learning options than ever before.   She searches a professional web site and finds a course that looks interesting and fairly priced. […]

I've been fascinated with YouTube lately. And not for the reasons you might think. At times it looks like an overnight success, but it's been around since 2005.  And while that's quite interesting, it's not what has me fascinated. Young kids are making millions of dollars with their YouTube channels and that's amazing as well.  But […]

YouTube hit the mainstream pretty hard in 2014. Or maybe I should rephrase that to YouTubers hit the mainstream in 2014. Of course the kids have been watching their favorite YouTubers long before 2014, but it just feels like the rest of the world is finally gaining interest. Youtube's popularity is a great example of […]

Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory indicates that people learn from one another. They accomplish this through techniques such as observation and modeling. With the recent influx of companies incorporating eLearning techniques, what happens to the Theory of Social Learning? Does eLearning mean that Social Learning is no longer important? Social Learning is still a vital aspect […]

Statistics show that 800 million people are on Facebook. Fifty-percent of those users visit the site more than once a day.  As a user myself that makes up that fifty-percent, it makes sense for one to ask why not combine eLearning with Facebook. If you're new to eLearning or Facebook and think this is a […]

Over at the Social Learning Camp I heard some good tips from Mark Oehlert on using Delicious bookmarking within organizations as a way of creating a knowledge base and a culture of knowledge sharing. The idea that you can turn a solitary action in to a community action is pretty cool. Meaning, instead of people […]

  Presented by Aaron Silvers and Mark Oehlert in the Social Learning Camp, I knew this topic was going to be interesting. The discussion started with a question, that was never really answered. In fact, as suspected this whole topic is pretty airy fairy because in order to measure social learning, you have to first […]

Mark Oehlert is running the Social Learning Camp at DevLearn 2009 and I just attended his session on 'The Big Three of Social Media / Social Learning: Fear, Control and Trust'. Here's a few takeaways from his talk which surrounded corporate culture and their objections to adopting social media, why they exist, and how to […]

I just want to share some interesting results I found from a Social Learning poll, designed by participants in the Masie Center Social Learning Lab and Seminar and done March 12th, 2009. It was sent out to Learning TRENDS readers - Global Learning Professionals, to which they received 1069 responses. It's a great snapshot of […]

It looks like Web 2.0 online training and eLearning systems have reached another plateau and they're in need of the next stage of development: the integration of social and collaborative tools to enhance the learning process. From a technical point of view I find this very exciting because historically Learning Management Systems (LMS) offer a […]

It's been talked about for years, but 'Social Learning' is more recently becoming the big buzz word in learning, and you should probably pay attention because it's being pegged as the next generation of eLearning (heavily debated of course, as is everything in learning). My definition of 'social learning' as I understand it is learning […]

There's a great group on Twitter called #lrnchat that meet every week to talk 'learning'. Learning technology, instructional design, semantics - you name it, it gets discussed. Each week questions are submitted to the Lrnchat blog and one is chosen to be the topic of discussion for the chat time which happens every Thursday night […]

You'll probably be hearing a lot more of the term 'electronic water cooler', if you haven't noticed it already. It's a reference to the ideas and discussions that come up while hovering around the office water cooler, that are now happening online. Any social media tool (blogs, wikis, Facebook) could represent an electronic water cooler, […]

To be totally honest, I didn't like Twitter when I signed up. I didn't understand the point of it. To me it was just another social network to waste my time. But now I know that you can't grasp the full potential of what's going on in Twitter using just the Twitter website. You have […]

How to Reply to a TweetOnce you start getting followers (which you will if you're following people!) you'll need to learn a few of the tricks. If you want to Reply to someone's update then you can either hover on their update and click the arrow that appears on the right, then type your message. […]

Customize your PageClick on "Settings" at the top. Most important tabs here are Account, Picture and Design so go through these and fill in the info, upload your picture and choose a background. No need to get too complicated yet, just make it look good. When you're done, click Profile and you'll see what others […]

No one likes to look dumb. But there's new applications popping up all the time, so it's not surprising that Twitter might have snuck up on you and now you want to know how to get involved and make the most of it. Before you sign up for an account, check out this cool CommonCraft […]

While Google indexes historical data, it's unhelpful in bringing through a result if something's very new, or has just happened. This is where Twitter has stepped in, and stepped up the game. An example of this is the recent US Airways landing in the Hudson River, the first reports of the averted disaster came from […]

If you still haven't got your head around Twitter, don't worry! You'll get there. And it really is a lot more simple than you might think. It's basically a free social networking tool that connects you with other people and information. People write