Learning 2.0 – Jeff Marmins

Blog, Social Business, Social Business Strategy, Social Media Policy, Social Media Risk Management

Portland high schools block social networking, video streaming sites #Fail

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Over the next two weeks, Portland’s school district will install filtering software on laptops issued to high school students, in order to block access to pornography, social networking sites and video streaming sites when the laptops are at home.

The district will install filtering software made by Sophos, an Internet security company based in Boston. The software will be downloaded automatically when students boot up their computers at school. Only when students get home will they discover that their lives have changed in a big way.

No longer will they have access to social networking sites like Facebook and video-streaming sites like Hulu and YouTube. Also blocked will be forums and news groups, games, dating sites, gambling sites and chat rooms. – The Portland Press Herald

This will prove to be the wrong approach. It is incredible how a School District can make this kind of decision. It is further evidence that migrating from old ways of thinking in business and education will take considerable effort and visionary thinking. Today learning can be reinforced online.

Blog, Business Thought Leadership Series, Corporate Culture

Social Learning and Employee Development by Halelly Azulay

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Here is the recorded version of a valuable presentation and discussion with Halelly Azulay, CEO of TalentGrow from the 2012 Business Thought Leadership Webcast Series. Halelly Azulay discusses the realities of employee development and leveraging social networking and media for learner-driven, learner-generated employee education.

Halelly brings over 19 years of professional experience in the fields of workplace learning, performance, and communication with regulatory, corporate, government, non-profit, academic, and entrepreneurial clients. She is the author of Employee Development on a Shoestring (ASTD Press, 2012).

Social Learning and Employee Development by Halelly Azulay

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Blog, Business Process Reengineering, Change Management, Employee Community, Social Business

Social Learning as an Employee Development Solution

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Guest Post by workplace learning, performance, and communication expert Halelly Azulay, President of TalentGrow and author of Employee Development on a Shoestring.

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What is Social Learning?

Social learning, or Learning 2.0, is a general name given to multiple collaborative online tools for sharing knowledge, building relationships, and interacting with content and with other members of the online community. These tools allow learners to learn independently, more quickly, and more efficiently, and to be more productive and effective as a result. Most of the content in these systems is user generated and user rated for interest, relevance, and helpfulness. The tools most commonly used by organizations for social learning purposes are wikis and social networking tools such as discussion boards, blogs, video uploading platforms, and podcasting.