These three directly address the follow up question Tony left on Part 1 seeking more on what learning professionals  need to know how to do to leverage the learning opportunities found in communities and networks. Community Leadership and Facilitation A subset is online community management but I’ll confess to placing more emphasis both on facilitating It has become clear. I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is.

Facilitating Networking by Paula Thornton December 26, 2007 at 2:07 pm · Filed under 2.0 The further away an employee is from a ‘live’ pulse of the company, the less likely a social networking technology will add value, unless it is being leveraged in an intentional effort to connect employees. Many companies are not strategically leveraging their intranets as ‘the face of work’ within their organizations. Design Thinking , Barriers , Enterprise 2.0 , Facebook , Social Networking This is in response to a comment from my colleague, Bill Ives, who asked for my thoughts as to the potential shakeout of social networking tools in the Enterprise.

second reason for my interest in the topic is that I have handed over the facilitation of the ecollaboration community to another team, at the same time as my co-facilitator Sibrenne Wagenaar. Whether planned or emergent, a resilient network will be able to manage the context of transformation by leveraging its core strength. A quote of Miguel I liked: " But always, This is the young swan swimming in the waters near our house (there is a lot of water in our area, something which made a Malian friend exclaim that this is a very dangerous place!). The swan is slowly transforming

Social media strategies include practices that facilitate behavioral and cultural contexts necessary for social media to be adopted and leveraged by its participants. Social media itself is not a single technology or set of technologies as much as it is a design point for the application of social tools or leveraging of social platforms. Social media leverages a variety of network and infrastructure In an earlier post on social computing , I attempted to illustrate how I look at the topic and break social computing down into several sub-categories (e.g., social

Then, going to learning professionals, I think there’s an additional level that is community / network facilitation. As learning increasingly happens through communities and networks, learning professionals need to be able to facilitate this. But I do think facilitation is a key knowledge workers skill in the network era, so for the sake of this post, I’ll treat the two the same but recognize that is oversimplification. It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s

for the corporate social networking community and will be presenting on the following topic: Title: Connectivity Powers Talent: Leveraging Employee Social Networks Implement the tools to facilitate improved knowledge sharing across globally dispersed organizations Leverage employee social networks to increase job satisfaction, retention and innovation FYI: I???m m

Blogs and wikis sit on what can be thought of as a communication continuum that also includes the phone, email and IM. There are advantages and disadvantages to each of these electronic communication tools. Immediate - But not Leveragable The phone is highly personal, and facilitates immediate communication. It is possible to use a conference call to facilitate one to many or many to many communication, but there are limitations to its usefulness. innovation Creators Successful innovation is not about the ideas or inventions; it’s about the people. About Videos Whitepapers Email is critical to Enterprise 2.0

Does it leverage and / or facilitate local ownership and economic development? Proposed by Franco Papeschi & Tory Dunn: (details details and background here ) “1. Does the initiative help people use time to their best advantage?

The paper introduces the term “open architecture” to describe the organization and provides guidance on how to map and intentionally build networks. Leveraging Networks: A Guide for Public Managers Working Across Organizations . The expansion of the Internet has facilitated the development of "networked individualism." Learning and Knowledge Leadership Networks A birds eye view: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creating and sharing . leadernetwork FrontPage Search wiki: Home Edit page Log in Add features Help Welcome to our living bibliography on leadership networks.

Trying to build your own community of loyal readers and fans? Photo credit: Robin Good In this second part (first part - Online Community Building Strategy: Good Advice From Nancy White - here) of my video interview with facilitation expert Nancy White , the focus of our conversation lands around key differences and philosophies behind groups and networks and their relationship with new communication technologies. How should we look at scaling our communities in the near future? Here all the details: Group Facilitation Vs. Print this article August 5, 2009 ?