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• Social learning is not a new training trend
• Social Media + Learning = much more than Social Learning
• Do you really need separate social learning tools and platforms: part 1
• Do you really need separate social learning tools: Part 2: 6 ways to integrate learning into the workflow
• 10 steps for working smarter with social media
• Top down implementation of social media won’t work

• Enterprise Learners v Entrepreneurial Learners (0)Jane HartA few days ago I made a posting in which I shared an animated video of a keynote presentation by John Seely Brown in which he talked about the concept of an entrepreneurial learner, and today I’d like to follow up on that post.â?¦

• What corporates can learn from the Top 10 Tools for Learning 2012 (0)Jane HartOn 1 October I released the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list, and in my introductory analysis I said
  “Whilst there is a clear differentiation between the personal/professional tools and the enterprise tools being used by workplace learning professions, in education teachers are frequently making use of the same toolset for both their teaching and their own personal learning. ...
• Pick of the Month: August 2012 (0)Jane HartAugust is typically a quiet month, but there have been plenty of good blog posts and articles around.  Here is my pick of the month’s reading - together with a snippet from each one which shows you why it caught my eye.â?¦
• Introduction to PKM Workshop & FREE Webinar (0)Jane Hart“PKM: A set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world & work more effectively.”
  Supporting self-managed learners with their Personal Knowledge Management is going to be a key new skill for workplace learning professionals in a social business.â?¦

• The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business (0)Jane HartIn my recent webinar, Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace, I shared a slide that showed the 5 stages of workplace learning.  This has attracted a lot of interest, and I’ve been asked to talk more about the differences between “learning” in Stages 1-4 and Stage 5.â?¦
• Facilitating collaborative learning: a recipe for success (0)Jane HartDuring 2012 Harold Jarche and I have been running a series of online workshops at the Social Learning Centre; these have proved to be very popular. In a recent article to be published in the September edition of e.learning age magazine, I describe how we have been doing this, and what I think are  the ...
• Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace: the presentation #socolearn (0)Jane HartToday I gave a webinar presentation on Social & Collaborative Learning.
  Below is the slideset I made available on Slideshare, but if you would like to read the slide notes and get the links to further resources, you will find them here: Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace
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• Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace (0)Jane HartOn Wednesday 22 August at 5 pm BST –  that’s 9 AM (PDT) / 12 PM (EDT) – I will be presenting a webinar, hosted by Citrix Online, on Social & Collaborative Learning in the Workplace.  Ã¢?¦
• Supporting workplace learning in the network era is more than delivering courses through a LMS (0)Jane Hart
  Harold Jarche, in his recent post, Supporting workplace learning, uses a great  little diagram to show that -
  “It takes much more than courses delivered through a learning management system to support workplace learning in the network era.”
  Harold goes on to explain:
  “The basic building block, in my experience, is personal knowledge management.â?¦

• From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management (0)Jane Hart“If you look closely at people who are succeeding in this new digital world of work, you’ll notice they have something in common: they’re fast learners and they’re willing to adapt.â?¦
• Learning in the Networked Era: A year of online professional development opportunities (0)Jane HartThe Social Learning Centre is  a Learning Community for learning professionals (in both education and the workplace) to support their ongoing professional development by learning from their peers as well as leading industry practitioners and thought leaders from around the world.â?¦
• Survey: Are you ready, willing and able to support learning in the new social workplace? (0)Jane Hart
  UPDATE: Survey now includes “None of the above” options
  Some time ago I wrote a blog post about how I believed that as social businesses emerge, and new social and collaboration platforms (or social intranets) are introduced into enterprises, L&D will have an extended role in the organisation in order to support the new community and ...
• Pick of the Month: July 2012 (0)Jane HartJuly was chock full of great articles and blog posts so here are just some of the articles that I bookmarked –  together with a snippet from each which showed you why they caught my eye.â?¦
• Do we need “career coaches” rather than trainers? (0)Jane HartMy Internet Time Alliance colleagues and I constantly talk about the need for continuous learning and how we all need to direct and manage our own learning – here’s one of my articles that I wrote in 2007.â?¦
• “How can I convince others about the value of social technologies in an organisation?” (0)Jane Hart“How can I convince others about the value of social technologies in an organisation?” That’s a question that I am often asked.
  I usually say that a good way to start is to demonstrate the value of social media for you professionally – after all if you can’t show how you use it effectively for your own ...
• Summer Camp starts Monday 16 July (0)Jane HartThe online Summer Camp at the Social Learning Centre runs 16 July – 17 August and is led by Jane Hart and Harold Jarche.
  Learning is changing. Learning professionals need practical tools and techniques to integrate work and learning while adapting to an increasingly complex environment.â?¦

• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012: 6th Annual Survey (0)Jane HartThe Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 list has now had over 100,000 views on the C4LPT website and over 500,000 views on  Slideshare.
  I am currently compiling  the 6th Annual, Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 list based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide – and invite you to share your own Top 10 Tools for Learning.â?¦

• The role of the Enterprise Learning Community Manager #elcm (0)Jane HartIn my recent webinar presentation for the LSG online conference, Using a collaboration platform for brilliant learning, rather than giving a PowerPoint presentation, I took the participants on a web tour of the Social Learning Centre.  Ã¢?¦
• Pick of the Month: June 2012 – Informal learning, Yammer, collab platforms, change, and keep learning (0)Jane HartJune is now over – and for us here in the UK it’s been one of the wettest Junes since records began! But fortunately there’s been plenty of good stuff to read on the Web.â?¦
• Web Tour of the Social Learning Centre (0)Jane Hart
  In my webinar presentation today for the LSG Online Conference – entitled Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning –  I didn’t use PowerPoint slides but instead gave a web tour of the Social Learning Centre.â?¦

• Using a collaborative platform for brilliant learning (0)Jane HartThat’s the topic of my webinar at the Online Learning & Skills Conference that will take place on Thursday 28 June from 1 pm – 1.45 pm .  The presentation like the whole event is FREE to join.  Ã¢?¦
• From “learning technologies” to “social technologies” (0)Jane HartSocial technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them  get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job.â?¦
• Supporting the Social Workplace Learning Continuum (0)Jane HartIn my previous blog post I explained how I recognized it is difficult for a lot of organisations to support informal and social learning in their organisations, because they are unable to jump the two mindset hurdles of (a) thinking that learning only happens in training courses, and (b) that all organisational learning needs to ...
• Pick of the Month: May 2012 (0)Jane HartHere is my pick of the resources that I shared on Twitter and in my Pick of the Day in May.  Note, for easy reference, ALL the links in my daily Picks  are collated monthly on my 2012 Reading List.â?¦
• Overcoming the Course and Control mindset hurdles (0)Jane HartMy two recent Learning in the Workplace surveys showed that (a) people consider that informal learning is much more important, if not essential, to them than training, and (b) that they learn informally on a much more regular (if not continuous) basis than they learn formally.  These findings are of course in line with study ...
• Summer Camp at the Social Learning Centre: 16 July – 17 August (0)Jane HartCome and join Harold Jarche and me for 5 weeks of professional development
  Learning is changing. Learning professionals need practical tools and techniques to integrate work and learning while adapting to an increasingly complex environment.â?¦

• Survey shows people take training as infrequently as they go to a conference; but they learn continuously in other ways (0)Jane HartLast week I invited readers to take my latest Learning in the Workplace survey, where I asked how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace.
  Although there have been well over 100 responses to the survey, once again, as with my previous survey a pattern to the responses appeared quite early on.â?¦

• Workforce Development Services: A new framework for providing training and learning support in organizations (0)Jane HartIn my last blog post, From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration, I talked about how I have been helping organisations support workforce collaboration. Following that post Dan Pontefract asked me this question:

  “Is this something that helps an external consultant, like yourself and ITA more so than it does those working inside an organization in a ...

• Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills (0)Jane HartOK, 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 ...
• Reactions to the non-training approach to workplace learning (0)Jane HartFollowing my recent post on the case for a non-training approach (NTA) to workplace learning and the launch of my NTA website, I’ve received quite a bit feedback and read a number of blog posts and comments about it. So I thought I would plot all these reactions on the learning technology adoption curve that ...
• The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning (0)Jane HartThe Training Department (aka the L&D dept) has traditionally focused on designing, developing, delivering and managing instruction – in the form of courses, workshops, e-learning and other training events. In fact “a course” in some form or other has now become the de facto solution to any performance problem in an organisation – despite the ...
• 10 steps for working smarter with social media (0)Jane Hart
  Workplace Learning is changing!
  A number of people, my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Charles Jennings in particular, have highlighted the fact that training that simply involves filling people’s heads with knowledge, is ineffective and inefficient – as most people forget what they have learnt very quickly. And that online courses, which do pretty much the same, ...
• Social learning is not a new training trend (0)Jane HartArticle written for e-Learning Age magazine, November 2011
  With the emergence of new social media tools, the word “Social” is being prefixed to old words to form new terms like “Social Business” and “Social Media Marketing”, and of course we now see the increasing use of the term “Social Learning”.

  Unfortunately, there are a few problems with ...

• Do you really need separate social learning tools: Part 2: 6 ways to integrate learning into the workflow (0)Jane HartIn Part One of this series of blog postings, I asked the question:
  “As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another, do we really need another set of social tools specifically for learning?”

  In this post I am going to be taking a look at 6 ...

• Do you really need separate social learning tools and platforms: part 1 (0)Jane HartWe are hearing a lot about new social learning tools and platforms that are becoming available – but do you really need them in the workplace?

  As business is becoming more social and we are using new social tools to work collaboratively with one another as we work, do we really need another set of social ...

• Social Media + Learning = much more than Social Learning (0)Jane HartThis article was written for the E-Learning Council, and first appeared on 10 October 2011
  Although we learn every day, in everything we do, whether it is in what we read, watch or listen to, or in the conversations and discussions we have with other people, at some time or other people started believing that ...
• 3 simple tips for setting up online communities (0)Jane HartOn Wednesday I spoke at the World Of Learning 2011 conference in the session on Harnessing the potential of social learning. My message was the same as usual (and you can see my presentation here) that social learning is not about forcing people to participate in online learning communities as part of formal training, ...
• Social Learning is NOT a new training trend (0)Jane HartI’ve written a few postings recently (notably Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does) where I have tried to show how the fundamental changes in how businesses are operating, require a fundamental change in how the L&D function needs to view workplace learning. I suggested this means a move from a “Command ...
• Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO (0)Jane HartYesterday, in my first posting on this topic, I showed how “social learning” is not just about a new training trend or about adding social media into the “blend” or acquiring the latest Social Learning Management System, but a fundamental change in how we need to view workplace learning. And that in order stay ...
• Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does! (0)Jane HartA few days ago my Internet Time Alliance colleague, Harold Jarche, shared this article, written by Deb Lavoy, with me: Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0. The first few paragraphs say it all!

  “Social Business” is not about technology, or about “corporate culture.” It is a socio-political historical ...

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Jane Hart is the Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT), one of the world’s most visited learning sites on the Web. Popular resources at the site include the annual Top 100 Tools for Learning list (now in its 5th year) and the Directory of Learning & Performance Tools (with over 2,000 tools listed in 12 categories).

Jane has worked with business and education for over 25 years, providing independent advice on the acquisition, implementation and use of new technologies. Jane’s huge breadth of knowledge and experience – in terms of potential approaches and tools as well as pitfalls – means she is able to offer a wide range of advice and support.

Jane is also the host of a number of communities including the Social Learning Community, a global community of practice for those interested in social learning and the use of social media for learning. She also runs workshops online and offline helping individuals and teams understand the value and power of social media for smart working.

Jane has been blogging for many years, she writes articles for international magazines; and is also an established author. Her most recent book is the Social Learning Handbook and she is now working on a follow-up resource site and book: The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning

Jane regularly gives keynotes and invited presentations at conferences and other events, both in the UK and internationally as well as online.

Her other activities include

• Honorary Fellow of the British Institute for Learning & Development.
• Member of the Advisory Board for the UK-based Institute of Learning & Development Professionals (IITT)
• Visiting Lecturer on the MSc in Learning & Technology at Oxford University
• Judge in the BizMedia E-Learning awards 2010 and 2011, Slideshare World’s Best Presentation contest 2010, and ALT Learning Technologist of the Year 2011 award

I enjoyed your contribution at the symposium yesterday very much. Not only was your key-note a good example of how to structure a key-note, but also the content was very nice. Not all new, but it was very nice to see new insights connected to known content.  ~ Patrick Collaris

Thank you for your wonderful contribution and they way you went about inspiring the teachers. It was really quite an honour for us to have hosted you. ~ Janet Thomson

Thank you so much for presenting yesterday I already know that they were thoroughly engaged in your presentation as activity has already commenced! ~ Anne Spencer

Thanks for a very inspiring lecture yesterday. The group really appreciated your insightful contribution. ~ Claus Hellmann Hansen

Thank you for a most enlightening experience and for the opportunity to learn so much ~ Mike Foxon

Jane, this was a truly great tour of personal organisation, collaboration and social media tools. I think you pitched it just right – anyone would find information of real value here without being overwhelmed. Thanks for all your hard work. ~ Dan Mason

Social Learning Handbook’ best professional book I’ve read the last years regarding L&D! ~ Karl-Heinz Thulemann

I appreciate how your book is so much more than just a tutorial on Social Media. After reading it, I really feel like you did a wonderful job of addressing the future possibilities concerning organizational learning. As educators, staying up to date on new media is important, but equally as important is knowing what kind of role it could play in education. Thank you for addressing this, and for not just writing another infomercial/tutorial about SocMe tools and resources. ~ William Lamp