Adventures in Corporate Education

Gartner recently released its hype report about social media. It is interesting to see that some of the tools we are advocating for Learning actvities are slipping into the “trough of disillusionment“. This is the time in a technology lifecycle when a product fails to meet the hype, and people stop talking about it as [...]

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A couple of comments to me this week are prompting this post. Someone in my senior management made a comment that I am very active in social media but I don’t really use it to learn. And someone on twitter asked me the question about EMC|ONE, (EMC’s internal social media site):

Here was my answer to [...]

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Today there are stories everyplace about social media sites such as Facebook. Everyone I know is on it – my kids, my mom, workmates, classmates, and old friends from college & high school. I love reconnecting with old friends, and playing Mafia Wars (I am not going to deny it).
So is Facebook just for fun [...]

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This morning I went to Boston Social Media Breakfast #9. EMC sponsored this edition of SMB Boston, and Jaime Pappas (one of EMC’s Social Media Managers) was one of the featured speakers. She did a great job talking about EMC’s overall strategy. What I’d like to do is talk about the revelations I had from [...]

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EMC (the company that I work for) is sponsoring Boston Social Media Breakfast #9. If you are in the New England area, you should come out! The last one I went to left me very energized!
Here’s the agenda:
SMB9 Theme: Starting Social Media and Community-Building Programs with a Reluctant Executive
SMB9 will feature three, eight-minute presentations on [...]

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