For a ON24 Virtual Learning Live session, I facilitated a conversation about social learning and how it can benefit organizations. See the full website here> http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=597394&s=1&k=E4CFAB7DEC20F0A74602F4D304C6FF29&userreg=n

1. If Social Learning is
If Social Learning is the Answer,
March 27, 2013
Social Learning Edition Question?
What’s the
ON24 Virtual Learning Edge
Principal, SensifyGroup
@marciamarcia #ON24VLE
marcia@marciaconner.com

2. Marcia Conner
MARCIA CONNER
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Principal, SensifyGroup
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Author, Advisor, Industry Analyst

3. ›❯ Social learning backstory
›❯ Shared definitions
›❯ Common misconceptions
›❯ Technical framework
›❯ Your choices
›❯ Open conversation
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4. CC DeaPea Jay http://www.flickr.com/photos/deapeajay/3051173258/
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34 Gigabytes. 1,005,000
words. 147 newspapers-worth
of information. Each day.

5. Source of these stat and many more on my website at http://j.mp/sobiznumbers
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$300 Billion
lost in productivity
by people not
engaged at work.
Each disengaged employee
costs on average $10,000
in profit annually.
1 in 2 business leaders say they
1 don’tbusiness leaders
in 2 have access to information
needed to do their jobs.
say they don’t have access to
information they need to do their jobs. #ON24VLE

6. CC Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/216927%7019/
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92% of us
have more confidence in information found
online than we do from any other source.

7. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we prepare for
an emerging future?
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8. CC Oleg Ski http://www.flickr.com/photos/sklyanchuk/4474773366/
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Learning would be
exceedingly laborious,
not to mention
hazardous,
if people had to
rely solely on the
effects of their own
actions to inform them
what to do.
Telus Albert Bandura

9. CC Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/6214329968/
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SOCIAL MEDIA is technology used
to engage three or more people.
SOCIAL LEARNING is participating
with others to make sense of new
ideas.
What’s new is how powerfully THEY
WORK TOGETHER, CONNECTED.
The New Social Learning

10. But socializing
But socializing But our job is to
distracts from
distracts from share the work of
learning.
learning. experts.
But people But trainers
will share will never
incorrect go for this.
information.
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11. CC Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3234770637/
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The real voyage
of discovery is
not in seeking
new landscapes,
but of having
new eyes.
Marcel Proust

12. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we transition from
building learning departments to
fostering learning cultures?
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13. 10 Things Said About Social Learning
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True or False?
1. Social learning is new.
2. Social learning requires digital tools.
3. Social learning needs social learning policies.
4. There's not data to support social learning,
and no way to show ROI.
5. It's always informal (or never informal).
6. A vendor can sell you social learning.
7. You need a social learning program before
your organization can learn socially.
8. For social learning to provide value you need
a new LMS. Or an upgrade. Or an LMS at all.
10 Things Said About Social
9. You can stop social learning from
happening.
Technology
10. Social learning doesn’t affect you.
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14. big and strong.
The job is to get
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15. Take Action
Connect Emotion
Use Imagination
Be Obstinate
Choose Usefulness
Enginuity, 2014
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16. #ON24VLE
Social Media for Learning
Online Community
Media Sharing
Microsharing
Living Content
Virtual Immersive Environments
Social media for learning

17. CC Mathew Sullivan http://www.flickr.com/photos/shoebappa/447992165/
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We construct, create, discover,
and succeed together, connected.

18. DEMOGRAPHICS MASHUPS
SMARTER WORKFORCE
Age Roles
Generation Technologies
Lifestyle Content
SAVVY CONNECTION
Consumer Confident
Technologist Evolving
Curator Organic

19. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we address modern
expectations?
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20. CC Andy Powe http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/4124475000/
Systematically
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remove obstacles.
91% of adults online in US (129M)
access social media in a typical
month. Most access it during work
hours, increasingly for doing work.

21. river?
your rocks?
What is your
Where are
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22. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we get our
time back?
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23. CC Malix http://www.flickr.com/photos/mallix/2586969604/
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I store my knowledge in my friends.
Karen Stephenson

24. In organizations where people horde
knowledge and resist new ideas, where
leaders say things about learning that
sound good and then fall back on sage
on the stage techniques, technology
only increases costs and drains resources.
Technology accelerates what’s there.
Creating a Learning Culture
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25. CC Slowtron http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuckr/91530309
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Highly engaged employees are
87% less likely to leave their
organizations than highly disengaged
employees.
Financial standouts are 57%
more likely than underperformers to use
collaborative and social tools to enable
global teams to work.
Companies with highly-engaged
employees have 26% higher
revenue per employee.

26. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we introduce new
possibilities?
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27. How do you feel about social tools? What are your colleagues currently
doing with social tools? Your
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employees? Peers?
Get clear. Get informed. Get ideating. Get going.
Demonstrate your interest in
What project that you’re personally being at the table by listening,
responsible for would benefit from learning and participating
being augmented by social tools? actively.

28. Start slow. Yet go.
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29. CC Thomas Hawk http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/4235550946/
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Move from command and control to
encourage and engage. Jane Hart @c4lpt

30. SOCIAL LEARNING
How can we be smarter,
stronger, together,
connected?
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31. With permission from Maideck http://www.flickr.com/photos/maidek/2791346321/
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Create an environment
where people soar.

32. We are better together, connected.
Would you please connect?
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@marciamarcia
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