{"id":16645,"date":"2011-03-18T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=16645"},"modified":"2011-03-18T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:13:48","slug":"in-case-you-missed-this-last-year-from-jane-hart-10-steps-for-working-smarter-with-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/18\/in-case-you-missed-this-last-year-from-jane-hart-10-steps-for-working-smarter-with-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you missed this last year from Jane Hart–>10 Steps for Working Smarter with Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 Steps for Working Smarter with Social Media<\/a> <\/strong> — from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies by Jane Hart
\nWebinar for\tLearning & Skills Group, 17 March 2010<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt below:<\/em><\/p>\n

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10 Steps for Working Smarter with Social Media<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span>Webinar for \t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearning & Skills Group,\u00a0 17 March 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Workplace Learning is changing!<\/p>\n

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A number of people, my \t\t\t\tInternet Time Alliance (ITA) colleague \t\t\t\tCharles Jennings<\/a> in particular, have highlighted the fact that\u00a0 \t\t\t\ttraining that simply involves filling people\u2019s heads \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\twith knowledge, is \t\t\t\tineffective and inefficient \u2013 as most people forget what they \t\t\t\thave learnt very quickly.\u00a0 And that online courses, which do \t\t\t\tpretty much the same, take time, effort and money to develop.<\/p>\n

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Many are also \u201cover-engineered\u201d solutions \u2013 and this often leads \t\t\t\tto resentment by those who have to spend time to work through \t\t\t\tcourses \u2013 when the material could have been provided in a much \t\t\t\tsimpler way. But in fact this whole approach to workplace \t\t\t\tlearning is not sustainable in a world that is moving very fast \t\t\t\tand where there is need for access to constantly changing \t\t\t\tinformation.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, although we have now realized – due largely to \t\t\t\tthe \t\t\t\twork of (my ITA colleague) Jay Cross<\/a> –<\/span> that most of an individual\u2019s \u201creal\u201d learning \t\t\t\ttakes place outside formal learning .. continuously \u2026 in the \t\t\t\tworkflow \u2026 by reading or listening to things, or more \t\t\t\tsignificantly in conversations and interactions with other \t\t\t\tpeople, L&D have struggled to understand how to harness informal \t\t\t\tlearning, and perhaps understandably often try to force it into \t\t\t\tthe formal model they feel comfortable with it.<\/p>\n

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But it is in fact, the emergence of social media, that has \t\t\t\treally begun to make us think\"\" differently about the way work and \t\t\t\tlearning is happening.\u00a0 For an increasing number of individuals \t\t\t\tand groups are using these new technologies in the workplace to\u00a0 \t\t\t\tconnect with colleagues both inside and outside the organisation \t\t\t\tin order to share \t\t\t\tideas, resources and experiences \u2013 often under \t\t\t\tthe radar of IT and L&D.\u00a0\u00a0 \t\t\t\tThis use of social media has become a revolution in the sense \t\t\t\tthat these tools are now in the hands of the employees.\u00a0 \t\t\t\tSo the question is what role does L&D play in all this?<\/p>\n

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One key \t\t\t\tthing to remember is Learning is not \t\t\t\tthe end goal; but is a means to an end.\u00a0 It’s about \t\t\t\tPERFORMANCE; people doing their jobs (better).\u00a0 In fact \t\t\t\tit’s all about working smarter.\u00a0 So what is working smarter? <\/span><\/p>\n

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