Social Community Leap Frog And Tips For Retention

[I almost named this article, Why Social Communities Are Fickle.]
There is a trend amongst online social community environments. As new features and functionality are added to the sites, users are “jumping ship” (or more accurately – “jumping from ship to ship”) for the lure of the latest and greatest. This trend seems to have some [...]

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Using Social Networks To Support Training And Competencies

In a previous post, I asked the question: How can social network environments be used to support competency models that include attitudes and behaviors?
With the variety of social network environments (SNEs) available in today’s Web 2.0 milieu, the possibilities for leveraging them in the support of competency models and training initiatives may be infinite. In [...]

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NextGen eLearning And World Of Warcraft®

eLearning, Community development, Technology, and Fun — all these impact and work together in changing the exciting landscape of online learning for the next generation. Often, I talk with organizational leaders who look puzzled when I start discussing the unification of these practices. Most take each of the areas above and put them in separate [...]

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