What+Are+Corporations+Doing+Now?

=** What’s the status of utilizing social media in the corporate world? Here's what a few experts in the field suggest: **=

= = // Jane’s blog > http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/ //

Social learning can take place in both and informal workplace settings. 80% of workplace learning is informal & non-formal and this is where most of social learning occurs:
 * Formal: L&D online workshops where everyone contributes to the learning (L&D in control, learning is intentional and aware)
 * Non-formal: Mentors, Networking where learners go seeking knowledge (learner in control, learning is intentional and aware)
 * Informal: Online conversations and meetings where learning might occur serendipitously, or not (learner in control, but learning unintentionally and may be unaware



Marc’s website: http://marcrosenberg.com/

Marc suggests that mobility and decentralization will help transform learning in organizations. Informal learning will begin to play a more crucial role in performance support at work. Learning strategies will shift:
 * E-learning to E-working > learning will be a function of work and not necessarily a mutually exclusive event
 * Push to pull > The learner will be in control of pulling tailored learning as needed as opposed to organization pushing general training.
 * Authoring to blogging > Experts are everywhere, not just the Instructor

Karie's twitter web page: http://twitter.com/#!/angler

Karie points out that there is an overwhelming amount of information readily available to a an individual today. As a result, you see Learners forming tribes, or guilds, to help each other make sense of all the information collectively. As an individual comes into the workplace, they are bringing those same habits, and expect to be able to poll their tribe or guild to find the information they need. The most efficient way to do that, in their experience, is through social networking or social collaboration platforms.

For example, Best Buy recently decided to utilize crowdsourcing to complete store forecasts. Accuracy was greatly improved when everyone participated. As opposed to specific individuals tasked with collecting information, tasks were spread out to a whole crowd or community. Social technologies get taken to a whole new level with the abundance of information available and we will be ever increasingly reliant on crowdsourcing for performance improvement.

In a recent interview, Karie was asked, “Will mentoring go tech via “social mentoring”?”

// “Mentoring already has gone social for many companies. In our survey we did for our book, Millennials cited mentoring & coaching as their most preferred way to learn, whereas every other generation selected classroom as number 1. With 70 million Baby Boomers expected to exit the workplace in the next 19 years, and only 50 million Gen Xers behind them, I anticipate we'll look for ways to mentor on a mass scale, and thus social mentoring will become far more prevalent.” //

Jane was asked: “What emerging social media technology do you like?”

// “I think the most promising technology of the future, particularly for the learning implications, is Facebook's Open Graph. I can watch a video on workplace safety... and Sam can see that I'm watching it and come watch it with me... and Sue can join in and talk about her interest in developing safety checklists based on her recent reading of Gawande's Checklist Manifesto... and we can go visit the site's web page, or follow Gawande on Twitter, or access the many videos of him talking about this...and have a conversation about what 'our' checklist might look like, and vet that with our own communities. It truly supports meaningful social learning, and the potential is just breathtaking. THIS is what the LMS should do, instead of just counting transactions and storing them in a database.” //