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Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0 tools to improve your performance as a knowledge worker.  One of the questions that always comes up is: How do I find more information to help me get started? The answer is that this information is a bit hard to come by.  There’s a lot out there, but it’s often hard to find information that helps you get start.  This was a major reason that I started down the path with Work Literacy .  That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help Knowledge Workers improve their performance using Social Media. Overview of Knowledge Work and Social Media Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Knowledge Work Framework Sense-making with PKM Keeping Track of Information Better Memory Keep track of information Handling the Flow of New Information Information Radar ...

In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set . But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources. Twitter and Teaching Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators - Don't Waste Your Time , May 9, 2009 Twitter in the classroom: 10 useful resources - Social Media in Learning , August 12, 2009 Presentation: Twitter in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 12, 2009 Adding Facebook and Twitter to student participation - Don't Waste Your Time , November 4, 2009 Twitter in your Teaching - eLearning Acupuncture , September 24, 2009 Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool How to use Twitter for Social Learning , March 20, 2010 Teaching with ...

As part of the Big Question this month Open Content in Workplace Learning? , I’m exploring whether Open Content can be used by for-profit companies.  And, since Open Content comes in under the Creative Commons license structure.  Actually, I’m curious if Open Content ever is not Creative Commons?  It’s by definition Open, but theoretically you could choose a different open license. I’ve just never seen it. In any case, to understand the use of Open Content, it’s important to understand Creative Commons licensing. Creative Commons Licensing Terms Creative Commons licensing terms.  All CC licenses start with: Attribution   (CC-BY) – Allows others to copy, distribute, display and perform a copyrighted work – and derivative works based upon it – but only if they give credit. All CC licenses contain this condition. Licenses may have one or more of the following permissions or restrictions: Non-Commercial (NC) - Allows copy, distribute, di...

Background / Requirements I’m just starting consulting with a company that has a single course (might eventually be broken into a few different course) that needs to be delivered to an audience of 600-1000 partners as part of a larger certification process.  Thus, they need to be able to report back out who’s completed the courses.  Courses will be authored using a Rapid Authoring Tool .  This may grow to be a little bit more than this, but likely not much. So, that’s a pretty simple set of LMS requirements.  It worries me just a bit that I might be missing something important that will turn into a Learning Management Systems (LMS) Selection Gotcha ? Fast Selection And while this wasn’t the basis for the post One Week to Select an LMS – No Way , it’s a situation where I’m not seeing the need to spend a lot of time going into a detailed selection process. But it’s almost like my background with and knowledge of all the different LMS products (see LMS Satisfact...

I’ve been facilitating the Big Question on ASTD’s Learning Circuit’s blog since sometime in 2006.  Last month’s big question was Instruction in a Information Snacking Culture?   The question was all about how we consume and work with information: People seem to be spending less time going through information in depth and less willing to spend time on information. We seem to be snacking on information, not consuming it in big chunks. In Stop Reading - Skim Dive Skim and that seems to be how people consume blog posts much more these days. I've also noticed a trend towards more twitter mentions of blog posts, but less deep commenting behavior much less thoughtful blog responses. One of the comments was really telling: Reading this blog has been an example of snacking for me. I am very interested in the post and thoughts it provokes and read down the comments (skimmed) but when it came to links to other blogs I did not use them. And since many of the respo...

Most of my experience has been in adult learning and performance.  Recently I’ve been working with a startup that provides content and tools to teens and is sold through high schools.  The first course is fairly well defined and is based on a couple of books/workbooks that have been used offline. What’s been interesting to me is that it’s been hard to find just the right person to help them with designing interactive exercises and writing content in order to bring this to life online.  Actually, the first interesting question is: What do you call this role? When we’ve called it either an instructional designer or writer we often find ourselves talking to people who have a hard time envisioning the online interactions.  I’m currently calling it an interactive writer, but I’m sure there’s a common term for this in the industry. The second challenge has been that we want to find someone who can write for today’s teen audience.  The style and voice of ...

There has been fantastic comments around Learning Management System Easy of Use .  This post was based on an inquiry that I received from someone who manages their current LMS implementation that is based on Moodle with some customization.  They do customer training around products that the company sells.  They are doing a combination of virtual classroom training (via WebEx) and self-paced eLearning.  And the person who asked the question tells me: My managers have asked me to find alternatives to Moodle that are more user friendly and that are easier to update and manage. Well two days later I’m told: You will get a kick out of this though.  My supervisors told me to research LMS possibilities and narrow it down it down to about 3-5 and report back in a week and present the pros and cons of the top ones I found.  And it’s not like I have all day each day to work this either, I have little pockets of time between now and then as normally I am ...