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Social Learning

May 17th, 2010

It was an exciting morning for students, staff and members of the Multimedia Film Festival Council of York Region. Films that were submitted to the inaugural year for the Festival were viewed by students at 3 different locations. A lively discussion, facilitated by Hillary Van Welter (Waste Films) had students offering their impressions and opinions about the films. This is a short overview of the discussions that took place amongst the schools.

I’m using the term social learning as I’ve just discovered an interesting discussion on this term at Bud the Teacher’s blog. It should be of interest to schools and community groups involved in student & civic engagement.

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Beth Kanter – The Networked Non Profit

May 15th, 2010

Beth Kanter is one incredible lady. I learn so much from her blog and her numerous social media channels. In this interview you can see her eyes sparkling and the electric energy that flows out of her with every question asked. The video is long but you can cherry pick which sections you like.

I was interested in hearing about her new book “The Networked Nonprofit“. I am using this term in my posts about social benefit groups becoming a networked organization.

Beth Kanter says, “Go Slow, But Go!” from Communications Network on Vimeo.

Running time of this episode is 27 minutes. To view selected sections, use the guide below to forward to the time indicated:

  • Beth Kanter may not be human (or what 100,000 Twitter followers get you.) (00:27-3:30)
  • Disciplined use of Twitter and what you can expect to get 3:30-8:00)
  • Why incremental approaches make sense for your social media experiments (8:00-14:44)
  • What about the skeptics in our midst? (4:44-17:04)
  • How program and communications staff are partnering for greater impact (17:04-20:00)
  • What does the future hold for foundations and social media? (20:00-23:50)
  • What is Beth’s new book about? (23:50-2625)

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From the Balcony to the Dance Floor – incremental changes over time

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      From the Balcony to the Dance Floor – incremental changes over time

      May 9th, 2010

      Are you a leader in your social benefit organization? Are you interested in learning more about the basic building blocks necessary for supporting a dynamic, engaging web site that reaches out and deepens relationships with your stakeholders? Are you thinking about how to move your organization on to the social web dance floor but not sure where or how to start? Read on!

      I’m sure you appreciate the impact social technologies are having in all sectors locally and around the world. Your leadership role now includes managing how your organization connects, networks, and collaborates with your diverse stakeholders. Also, your new role includes learning how to listen to your stakeholders in new ways so you can adapt and respond to a rapidly changing environment.

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      Building Networked Social Benefit Web Sites – adding capacity & strengthening community!

      May 2nd, 2010

      In 2009, after 20 + in the non profit sector, I hung out my shingle as a social media strategy consultant and formed my company, Social Media Tools for Work & Learning. Like others, I saw the communication and relationship landscape change across the world as social web technologies were increasingly used to engage and deepen relationships with service users, customers, partners, donors and supporters.

      I recognized that it was time for me to combine my expertise in the non profit sector (herein called social benefit sector) with my passion and experience for using social media strategies and tools in my programs. I knew that organizations would need help in figuring out how to shift their thinking as they begin exploring how to adopt and integrate social media strategies and tools into their organization.

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      Who is Driving Your Career & What are Your Career Anchor Points?

      May 1st, 2010

      Ever since I read the World is Flat, I knew how important it is to have a larger view of your work and career goals. We know that social media is accelerating the pace of change across all sectors of the economy and employment sectors (other sectors as well).

      We also know that many of the changes brought about by the social media groundswell are influencing how practitioners are thinking about their future. More and more front line and management staff are thinking deeply about their long term career as opposed to clinging to the illusion  that their current job will last forever. I think this is a good thing.

      I stumbled across this very interesting post from Luc Galoppin one of my favourite bloggers writing about consulting. Luc is writing a series of posts on the world of work, aptly titled “Love & Work. In this post which I inserted below, he cites the work of Jan Denys, a European Labour Market expert who has just released his book, Free to Work. Denys has composed a list of career anchor points are a simple but a very powerful way to identify and use your anchor points to drive your career. Career Anchors match the ‘who you are’ part with the ‘what you do’ part of your daily life.

      In the below One-Minute-Interview Jan Denys explains what this means for every single employee who gets ‘trapped’ into the comfort zone of a stable job: Your comfort zone should be coloring red when you find yourself loosing the external focus and ignoring the long-term perspective of your career.

      Nowadays, there is no such thing as a lifelong job in one and the same organization. However, in times of economic crisis we see people digging themselves even deeper into the security of their job: comply more, don’t speak up, play-safe-games and even increase the inward focus.
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