Four-Session Online Learning Event

This is an in-house Implementation Program Plus: Free 100-Page e-Book With case studies, references, tips and tactics, forms, templates, and process flows.

Why Attend: Mainstream Social Networking is a viable corporate learning solution. Corporate versions of YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr, LinkedIn, WIKIs, Blogs, SecondLife, and other virtual methods - are invading businesses in a large way. However, the challenges and issues that confront leaders, managers, trainers and learning specialist are: How do we introduce these new methods and tools to directly impact and improve learning and performance? How do we manage work cultures and learning behaviors to meld with socially-driven, collaborative and open-architecture software solutions? How do we implement these changes to ensure that our investments bring about results?

Through a series of case studies, examples, demonstrations and guided hands-on social networking exercises, the workshop will help you design and implement a plan that will leverage Social Networking in your organization. The workshop will enhance your skill set as a leader, manager, and specialist in introducing Social Networking in your organizations.

This session benefits those who wish to advance themselves and obtain knowledge to be a champion, leader, prime mover or contributor in their organizations' push to leverage Social Networking.

Topics: In this session you will learn to:

·                     Back up your plans with research-based proof that Social Networking improves organizational learning and performance

·                     Apply ideas from case studies in selecting, implementing, and monitoring Social Networking

·                     Identify the criteria of a good fit with the culture, technology, participant skills, and outcomes;

·                     Set up a benchmark model that will correlate social networking interactions with measurable performance outcomes;

·                     "Seed" Social Networks with micro-content, user-created content, and other sources, e.g. e-learning, references, knowledge objects, video, audio, etc.

·                     Select which projects, topics and work demands, skill sets, and tasks that warrant Social Networking learning methods;

·                     Match Social Networking tools and software with the right projects, scope and participants;

·                     Select tools that enable you to display visual and graphical Social Networks or Sociograms;

·                     Integrate the data from social networking tools into your LMS or blended programs;

·                     Use the six-step process for integrating Social Networking learning and performance

·                     Identify skills sets for Social Networking champions, leaders, managers, specialists, trainers and developers using Social Networking methods

·                     Present a plan to management and show justification for implementing Social Networking projects.

Note: This workshop is about managing and implementing Social Networking initiatives to improve learning and performance. Social Networking and Web 2.0 software, e.g. Wikis, Blogs, Social