Posts Tagged ‘SLCONF’


Social Learning Conference 2012: Review

Posted by Vic Okezie on Monday, March 12th, 2012 | 1 Comment
This is a guest post by Martin Couzins, Content, Communication and Engagement specialist and owner of itsdevelopmental. Martin was a track leader at #SLCONF 2012. The moderator of the Social Learning conference 2012, Jon Ingham, summed up the event by saying that there was a great energy and commitment from delegates to making social learning ...

Full-time review of #slconf from Jon Ingham

Posted by Martin Couzins on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Social Learning Conference moderator Jon Ingham provides his review of the afternoon. Full-time review of #slconf from Jon Ingham (mp3)...

Nick Shackleton-Jones on Social Learning

Posted by Martin Couzins on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Nick Shackleton-Jones, Group Head of e-learning at BP, shared his learning from his time at the BBC and revealed some of his thinking around the development of a new learning hub at BP. He highlighted two key issues that L&D professionals need to consider when developing social learning. These are: Build it and they won’t ...

Social Learning: Technology, Content & Culture

Posted by Martin Couzins on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Terry Jones, Head of L&D at BT Openreach provided his summary of the Social Learning Conference in this short interview. He said that the three steps to implementing an effective social learning strategy were: The right technology Great content – to make it engaging and fun The right culture Jones also said that the shift ...

96 Mobile Learning App Ideas (#SLCONF 2012)

Posted by Martin Couzins on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 2 Comments
Ben Betts ran a session on mobile learning at the Social Learning Conference this morning. In it he asked delegates to create 100 ideas for mobile learning apps. You can see Ben kick off the session (above) and find the 96 ideas below. Over lunch Ben and I typed up the notes and in the ...

Half-time review of the Social Learning Conference

Posted by Martin Couzins on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | 2 Comments
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)...

Social Learning at Yammer: Thoughts for L&D

Posted by Olga Pavlovsky on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 | No Comments
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 ...