Jon Ingham is moderating today’s Social learning conference. Here you gives his review of the morning sessions.   Half time review of #slconf from Jon Ingham (mp3)...

The last few years has seen a significant change in the way companies recruit employees and how the latter search for jobs. A shift from traditional recruiting methods to a more socially orientated one means that many of the more traditional organisations have had difficulties implementing and integrating new strategies within their corporate culture and ...

I listened in to the webinar that Yammer recently ran entitled “Finding Value in Serendipity”. As someone who works with technology vendors, I’m well aware that any new product or service a company adopts is really only as good as its users. Whenever someone somewhere changes their work habits or introduces a new process, there ...

With only a couple of days to go until the Social Learning conference starts, I thought I would highlight some background reading (well watching, actually) that might inform thinking and discussion on the day. Here are three angles that lift the lid on social learning and the challenge for L&D. The future of learning First, ...

Derived from the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (which also inspired a movie ), the ‘Moneyball Sourcing model’ described here by Marvin Smith allows for a different, data-driven approach to viewing sourcing and recruiting. In the actual novel, Beane managed to sign baseball players who were less expensive yet still able ...

We have been working on the agenda for the Social Workplace Conference 2012 and have now published some speakers and summary of their presentations. The conference will be held on 24th May 2012 in London. Please find some of the confirmed speakers below: The State of the Social Workplace: Trends and Technologies Alan-Pelz-Sharpe, Principal, The ...

This is a guest post by Lilian Mahoukou, Social media and Employer branding professional with expertise in content creation, storytelling and social media/HR event planning. Should we really fear this? Before social channels, the one-way communication style was sufficient. The top-down approach was like an unshaking model. In spite of possible existing conflicts, sounding nice ...

With our Social Learning Conference approaching fast, we couldn’t help noticing a blog posted by Yammer recently about how the company’s L&D team started to use their own tools to create a social environment for training. Creating an environment where your employees can learn together, as well as from one another, has probably never been easier due to all ...

This is a guest post by Lilian Mahoukou, Social media and Employer branding professional with expertise in content creation, storytelling and social media/HR event planning. Social media’s actively talked and slowly reaching out to new frontiers. It’s not just a marketing or PR matter anymore, and now we’re even talking about social business. Recruiters and ...

“Just because you can tweet and use facebook and linkedin doesn’t necessarily mean that you can execute an advertising campaign that uses twitter, facebook etc.” – Lucy Amstrong, HR Manager at 1000heads Social Media Week 2012 is almost over. Among the multitude of social media related events and discussions being held in London, ‘Mind the ...