Webinar Recap: How Yammer Uses Mindflash For Training
On Thursday, May 9, Mindflash hosted a webinar to discuss how Yammer uses Mindflash to conduct training. It was a very informative webinar, and I thought I would recap some of the highlights so you can learn how to use Mindflash and Yammer together to develop and deliver training in … Read more
Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate
Of all the sections in my book on critical skills learning professionals need to know now, “enterprise 2.0 collaboration” seems like the most unlikely “critical” skill. However, as the speed of business keeps increasing, learning pros are having to adjust their goals, and the skills they need to fulfill them. Where … Read more
How Trainers Can Manage Their Social Media ‘Brand’
Social media and social networks, to say the least, have become one of the most common ways for people to communicate. Just about everyone — even your mom, probably — has connected somehow with someone else through as social-media tool. That makes it an exciting time, but also one with … Read more
Three Simple Ways to Get Started with Social Learning
Social learning a lot of us hear a lot these days — we know, vaguely, what it is, and we know that it’s happening, whether we like it or not, every day. And yet the vast majority of our money and energy goes toward formal training programs, not these social, … Read more
Five Must-Have Skills for Learning Professionals: An Update
The first post I wrote here was called Critical Skills Learning Professionals Need Now, back in October 2010. Since then, I’ve been on a quest to help people in the learning and development industry continuously learn new skills and stay current. Fueled by a personal quest to avoid professional stagnation and … Read more
