Adventures in Corporate Education

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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In the spirit of the CCK08 theme of the week (Networks) I must ask about a roadblock I am seeing in involving the masses in social media.
Does marketing own social media? The social media groups I am involved with are all run by marketers. The marketing group in my company are the early adopters of [...]

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The Engaged Learning blog has been posting Objections to using social media for education. The last couple of days have had some interesting posts on this topic!
Objection #12 was “How Will you measure that it’s working”?  Basically, how do you go from recording each course consumed in the LMS to measuring informal learning?  He suggests [...]

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