Getting Started With Social Media For Learning
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The document discusses the challenges faced by Learning and Development (L&D) departments in effectively utilizing social media for informal learning. It emphasizes the importance of breaking down silos and adapting to the evolving learning landscape by leveraging social networks to enhance engagement and learning experiences. Recommendations include creating buy-in, using coaching strategies, and making social media policies flexible and approachable.
Getting Started With Social Media For Learning
- 1. Why L&D Struggles With Social Media…and How to Fix it
- 2. Welcome aboard… Presenter Company Co-Pilot Steve Boller Leanne Batchelder @BLPIndy Marketing & VP of Client bottomlineperformance.com Communications Relations Strategist @lmbatch @steveboller
- 3. Questions, Answers Are these true for you? • I use social media at home. • I use social media for personal use… at work. • My company prohibits social media at work. • My company uses social media for work purposes. • My company ENCOURAGES social media for work purposes. Send us an IM response to this: “It would be hard to use social media at my company because…”
- 4. …Did You Watch the Olympics? …You probably already knew the results before NBC’s broadcast. Live streams and results were available on social media… but NBC tried to ignore it.
- 5. Is Your Training Like NBC’s Olympic TV Coverage? Delayed? Irrelevant? Ignored?
- 6. What You’ll Personal Knowledge Learn Management (PKM) aka Informal Learning Create Buy-In hierarchy Coaching and support Set up Twitter…fast Twitter chats
- 7. Social Media is growing (duh) Based on the fact that you are here, I don’t need to bore you with the facts and figures. You know social media is growing…fast. The train has left the station. Are you on it? If not, why?
- 8. Social Media, Social Networks What’s the difference? Social networks are “websites, portals, or channels where people get together to share information with each other.” Social Media is “content that gets shared, published, and circulated amongst various social networking sites.” Definition paraphrased from Carlo Ople: http://thenewmedia.com/social-media-versus-social-networking-sites/
- 9. Myths and Legends IM us: What excuses do you hear people use to jus6fy not using social media?
- 11. Just the Facts ✔ The US Marines and CIA use social media. ✔ The Tin Can API and BLPLMS make informal learning trackable in an LMS. ✔ Everyone needs a break at work…social media is a good way to take one. According to the 2012 eLearning Guild Informal Learning Research Report: 50-80% of workplace learning is informal.
- 12. What is PKM? This is you, doing PKM ✔ How we naturally learn. ✔ Informal, ongoing, as ✔ We’ve always done needed. it.. Social media makes it easier.
- 13. PKM ≥ Informal Learning “Official” Definition My Definition: Informal learning includes Informal learning is situations where the what we do when we learner determines some combination of the start walking, riding process, location, bikes, talking, and purpose, and content and searching Google. It’s may not even be aware intuitive and we don’t that instruction has even realize we are occurred. doing it. Dr. Saul Carliner, director of the education doctoral program and associate professor at Concordia We’ve been learning informally for a University in Montreal, Canada, and author of long time. Informal Learning Basics
- 14. PKM ≥ Informal Learning My Definition: Informal learning is what we do when we start walking, riding bikes, talking, and searching Google. It’s intuitive and we don’t even realize we are doing it. We’ve been learning informally for a long time.
- 15. You aren’t a Trainer anymore.
- 16. You aren’t a Trainer anymore. Trainer Community Manager
- 17. You aren’t a Trainer anymore. Trainer Community Manager Break down silos.
- 18. Expert view: eLearning Guild Simple social media technologies that people are already using can be very valuable for informal learning. (Pa' Shank PhD CPT, eLearning Guild Research Director) IM us: What social media tools are best for PKM?
- 19. Network Overload
- 20. Which social network do you need? Low Social Network Learning uses Google+ Not that great..Google hangouts can be fun. Facebook Facebook pages and groups that are in the Usefulness workflow. LinkedIn Par6cipate in LinkedIn groups…if you dare. Niche Networks Pinterest, Learnist, SnapGuide…useful tools for learning. Check them out yourself! YouTube How-‐to guides, educa6onal content. Blog/Wiki Find great content, leave comments, learn from others. High TwiZer Find and converse with thought leaders in any field. Ac6ve, growing social community with loads of learning possibili6es.
- 21. Create Buy-In
- 22. Create Buy-In ✔ Who’s resisting? IT? CEO? L&D? Learners? YOU? ✔ Answer common ?s: Network security, time management, (insert yours here) ✔ Go beyond the tools. It’s not JUST about Twitter. ✔ Stick to your guns. ✔ Does it really make sense? ✔ Share success stories. -Jane Bozarth @janebozarth
- 23. Start from Scratch Meet Sally Social. She wants to: ✔ Set up an account ✔ Find people in her industry ✔ Follow industry trends ✔ Network Let’s get her started.
- 24. 5 Ways to interact… Plain tweet Remember your #Hashtags! Retweet Quote tweet Mention (uses @steveboller) Direct Message
- 25. …But, what should I tweet about?
- 26. How to tweet…and Like it! Share your interests…business and personal Free-write for insight Don’t force it Conversation is key
- 27. Don’t train, coach Mandating won’t work. Big, large scale training programs won’t work. Acting like a friendly, little league soccer coach will work. Explain “why Link games to games?” learning hierarchy Show and tell
- 28. Don’t train, coach Explain “why Link games to games?” learning hierarchy Show and tell
- 29. Have a coaching strategy… Individual meetings with leadership Listen more than you speak Adapt the coaching Let leaders set the tone
- 30. Death by policy… Don’t Do it! We scrapped our first social media policy draft…it was too specific and too demanding. Link games to learning hierarchy guidelines Show and IM us: Does your company have a tell social media policy or set of guidelines?
- 31. Death by policy… Don’t Do it! We scrapped our first social media policy draft…it was too specific and too demanding. Social Media Policies… Social Media Guidelines… cover your legal tracks. suggest usage methods. explain what NOT to do. Link gways to to started. show ames get are as simple as possible. learning grow into the help people tools. hierarchy guidelines Show and IM us: Does your company have a tell social media policy or set of guidelines?
- 32. You’ve “trained” them… now what? Link games to learning hierarchy Show ✔ Your team is ✔ New habits need ✔ A little and busy. a behavior trigger. organization tell goes a long way.
- 33. Twitter chats rock #TalkTech Thursdays at 3 pm EST Link games to learning hierarchy Show and ✔ Learn through ✔ Regular behavior trigger ✔ Idea generation conversation tell inside and outside the organization
- 34. How to host… Post a blog announcement Promote it! Use Tweetchat to participate Post a transcript
- 36. Promote It 36
- 37. Where We Started (December 2011) 37
- 38. Agenda 38
- 39. Benefits of Twitter chats… Rapid info exchange Break down silos Regular task acts as a behavior trigger. Encourages reading, synthesizing through Twitter.
- 40. What about Internal Networks? Didn’t work for us, might work for you. Privacy/Security You’re still building silos.
- 41. What We’ve Personal Knowledge Learned Management (PKM) aka Informal Learning Create Buy-In hierarchy Coaching and support Set up Twitter…fast Twitter chats
- 42. Dare to make your company learning different. Just in time In the workflow Embraced
- 43. Questions?
- 44. Thank You • steve@bottomlineperformance.com • www.bottomlineperformance.com/lolblog • Twitter: @BLPIndy, @SteveBoller
- 45. Additional Resources • 7 Great TwiZer chats for Learning • Tweetchat tutorial • How to use Google Reader • Favorite iPad apps, produc6vity apps for content cura6on. • Tools for power users Current clients can access these resources on our Client Only web portal. Ask your BLP Account Manager for details.