john j. ambrose senior vice president, strategy and corporate development
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Using Social Learning to Unlock Your Organization’s Inner Genius. John J. Ambrose Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development. Where You Can Find Me. Where You’ll Find Me…. Linked in Facebook Twitter Wordpress blog SkillSoft blog Quora Yelp FourSquare. My Offices. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
John J. AmbroseSenior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development
Using Social Learning to Unlock Your Organization’s Inner Genius
Where You Can Find Me
Where You’ll Find Me…
Linked inFacebookTwitterWordpress blogSkillSoft blogQuoraYelpFourSquare
My Offices
Stats
From Pew Research Center 2010:
• Linked-in averages a new user per second
• Twitter 50 million Tweets sent per day
• 73% of adult profile owners use Facebookand 14% use LinkedIn
• The biggest users of social media – and not going away any time soon – are people in their 20′s (Pew, July 2010).
- Bill French, Blog Posting, April 22, 2003
“Email is where knowledge goes to die.”
Gartner’s Top 10 Technologies for 2011
World 2.0
The ‘New Normal’
- Demographic shift- Global competitive landscape- Technology as enabler and disrupter- Speed and volume of information - Device hyper-evolution - Ubiquitous access- Global transparency- Social connectivity
Channels of Collaboration, Good but…
Alternate to a Channel: A Platform
Globally Visible
Persistent
Discoverable
Searchable
Shareable
What are the implications for learning?
2012Year of the Stream
2011Year of the Team
2010Year of the User
2010: Year of the User
The User Experience
Web 2.0
Find What I Need
Content Modularization
Leadership Development
2011: Year of the Team
Collaborative Learning
Ad Hoc Team Fluidity
Recommendations
Push & Pull Mobile
New Reporting Insights
2012: Year of the Stream
Learning as a Stream
Seamlessness with Business Infrastructure
Greater Learning-TM Linkage
Global Social Learning Communities Emerge
The Three Immutables
Instructional Design
Trusted Content
Reporting
SkillSoft Framework: The Decade Ahead
Last Decade Next Decadefrom formal and informal to formal, informal and socialfrom learning basics to learning amplificationfrom big chunks to small chunksfrom completions to collaborationsfrom one-shot learning to constant adaptationfrom curriculum to learning environment from user as learner to user as learner and expertfrom what employers want to what practitioners need
Source: Original SkillSoft Assessment (2010) partially derived from the work of Dr. Brigitt Jordan, PhD, From Training to Learning in the New Economy
SkillSoft Framework: The Decade Ahead
Last Decade Next Decadefrom formal and informal to formal, informal and socialfrom learning basics to learning amplificationfrom big chunks to small chunksfrom completions to collaborationsfrom one-shot learning to constant adaptationfrom curriculum to learning environment from user as learner to user as learner and expertfrom what employers want to what practitioners need
Source: Original SkillSoft Assessment (2010) partially derived from the work of Dr. Brigitt Jordan, PhD, From Training to Learning in the New Economy
Our Social Journey…
June 4, 2008
And Then…
6:14 PM
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9:21 – Reply from Cisco’s CTO
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9:45 – Tweet to ‘Sam the Butcher’
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11:06 PM: ‘Sam the Butcher’ Replies
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11:28 PM - Sam Offers More Advice
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12:09 AM – More Mentoring
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Next Morning I’m Grateful
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Within 1:21 Minutes
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And a Voice from the Future…
“With enough brains, many, if not most, business challenges can be met …
… and Enterprise 2.0 is all about using
technology to bring brains together more effectively.
Dr. Andrew McAfeePrincipal Scientist
MIT Center for Digital Business Author of Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0
‘Empty Drum’syndrome
Technology is Just One Ingredient
“Content is king. The tool itself is nothing; the value comes from the strengthof its content.”
- Jakob Nielsen Enterprise 2.0: Social Software on Intranets
Content
www.skillsoft.com
Content in Context
8+ Million Seeds of Collaboration
FinancePro1,100+ titles
EngineeringPro2,600+ titles
ExecBlueprints800+ Exclusive titles
GovEssentials1,100+ titles
AnalystPerspectives2,800+ titles
Well-BeingEssentials1,100+ titles
BusinessPro6,200+ titles
ITPro8,900+ titles
OfficeEssentials480+ titles
ExecSummaries450+ titles
Leadership Channel 1,300+ titles
6,000+ courses
Our Approach: SkillSoft inGenius
What it is:
• Social Learning Layer • Leverages granularity of hosted content • Optional Feature Set• No additional cost
KnowledgeCenterrsBooks24x7
SkillPort
V1.0 Project Scope and Overview
1. Core Functional Technology Stack
2. Optional inGenius Features in B24x7 Application
APIs
Real-time discussions during LDC Live events
10 Tips for Your Social Learning Journey
1) Expand your personal social horizons2) Don’t attempt to boil the ocean3) Avoid product showdowns with IT (we all can get along!)4) Look for natural opportunities to introduce social via
learning5) Social content in context6) Enlist social mavens to help create internal awareness7) Take a Darwinian approach to experimentation8) There is no social ‘silver bullet’ 9) Remember the 1-9-90 rule10) Be creative
The Enterprise 2.0 Promise
“If only HP knew what HP knows, we would be three-times more productive.”
Lew Platt Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Contact Info
John AmbroseSkillSoft Corp
Twitter: johnjambrose
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 781.440.9323
Born 2006
Born 1971
Born 1876