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Workforce Development Services: A new framework for providing training and learning support in organizations

By ⋅ 1 March 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

UPDATE: Version 3 of the WSD Framework now available as a PDF under a Creative Commons licence.

In my last blog post, From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration, I talked about how I have been helping organisations support workforce collaboration.â?¦

From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration

By ⋅ 23 February 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that I (temporarily) changed this blog’s title from “Learning in the Social Workplace” to “Workforce Collaboration” Why? Well, to try and avoid the “learning” word or at least the term “social learning”!â?¦

The state of social collaboration

By ⋅ 21 February 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

“Why social collaboration? Based on proximity, people are not likely to collaborate very often if they are more than 50 feet apart”  Thomas Allen, 1977

Here’s an image courtesy of Central Desktop Click the image for the  large version.â?¦

Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer?

By ⋅ 20 February 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

There have been a couple of posts recently on the topic of whether organisations need  to have a new role of a Chief Collaboration Officer (CCO) . This is something close to my heart as I am in fact Senior Director of Collaboration in the Internet Time Alliance,  and I have been working recently with  a few organisations as they grapple with what it means to support a collaboration culture across the whole of their business.â?¦

Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills

By ⋅ 14 February 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

OK, these skills are not actually “new” –  they’ve always been present – but perhaps they have not always been as visible as they should have been, as Oscar Berg explains in The collaboration pyramid (or iceberg). But, as businesses transform into social businesses, the social workplace is going to become more and more reliant on these skills.â?¦

Collaboration in the Enterprise Infographic

By ⋅ 16 February 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

The following infographic comes courtesy of the Socialcast blog, where they say:

“Collaboration is based on the idea that sharing knowledge through cooperation helps solve problems more efficiently. In the enterprise, this principle couldn’t be more true, especially as more and more employees are engaging with one another through asynchronous, socially-geared technology.”

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Grapevine

By ⋅ 6 November 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I've mentioned Grapevine on my Pick of the Day blog before, but Dirk Wood, the CEO has just emailed to tell me about some recent changes:

"We now have a desktop application for even easier access and communication, complete redesign, and a myriad of new features just released to complement our initial web app.â?¦

7 things you should know about Voicethread

By ⋅ 20 July 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Voicethread has become a very popular tool to create collaborative presentations.  It is currently in joint 17th place in our emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.

Educause recently released 7 things you should know about Voicethread in their “7 things you should know about …” series, which looks at its use in teaching and learning.â?¦

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Jane Hart, the Founder, C4LPT and the Social Learning Centre writes about how to support learning & performance in the social workplace.

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