Informal Learning Flow is a content hub started by Jay Cross that collects and organizes the best information on the web around informal learning. We hope this will help you find good stuff, learn and stay current.

1377 Articles match "Conferences","social"

The Latest from Informal Learning Flow MORE
Ev Williams: Twitter’s First Principle, “Be A Force For Good”
Interestingly enough, Twitter saw its first burst of popularity three years ago at this very conference. We think of it as an information network — different from a social network. We’re here at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas where Twitter co-founder Evan Williams doing a keynote Q&A with Umair Haque. Williams may use the time to talk a bit about Twitter’s upcoming ad platform .
TechCrunch - Monday, March 15, 2010
READ MORE
How can we make conferences stay relevant?
but there are a lot of conferences in my past and in all probability, a lot more in my future. Now, don't get me wrong- I love a good conference. This happens more I find at conferences that I've been to multiple times. Then you start to question why you're there in the first place - think Up In The Air but for conferences.  So I just got back from GDC and before that it was Learning Technologies 2010 , DevLearn before that and next it'll be Learning Solutions , IITSEC , LEEF (supposed to be REALLY good this year), maybe throw in some KMWorld , a little OGI and Gov2.0
e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Monday, March 15, 2010
READ MORE
Create an Event Card to Make Conference Networking More Productive [Social Networking]
You need a plan of attack if you want to make your social networking experience productive. Tags: Social Networking Events Networking Social Social Engineerin Create an event card to help you navigate your next networking engagement and come out with fruitful new contacts. More » ...Tags:
Lifehacker - Monday, March 15, 2010
READ MORE
  • The Best from Informal Learning Flow MORE
  • Jimmy Wales: Social Web Marketing - Good for Some, Not for All
    And according to Wales, this led to innovations in social rules and social institutions. Tags: Conference According to Jimmy Wales , founder of Wikipedia , there are too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in the world of Web 2.0 marketing today. "There There is a lot of advice about how brands should be interacting [online]," he said
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    READ MORE
  • The State of the Market in Semantic Technologies
    Social Tague said that we shouldn't focus on providing "frosting" on top of current social Web tools. Tags: Conference Tom Tague from Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais team did a keynote speech today at SemTech in San Jose. His presentation was a wonderful wrapup of current semantic technology trends, and what we can expect over the next few years.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    READ MORE
  • Yes, Your Social Media Strategy Needs Design
    In nearly every conference room across the business landscape it's inevitable that at some point the phrase "social media" enters the discussion. What if we looked at "social media" as a design problem? As someone who started a career as a designer (graphic design and user experience design) and is currently exploring business opportunities in social media — which I think of as social business design — I Marketers, PR and salespeople are among the first to engage in the discussions, trying to figure how networks can be leveraged to sell more stuff.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
    READ MORE
  • eLearning Conferences
    Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, check the specific conference website . No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this selected conference list. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here.
    eLearning Technology - Friday, January 2, 2009
    READ MORE
  • The Art and Science of the Retweet with Dan Zarrella
    At Social Media Camp 2009, Dan Zarrella of HubSpot gave a well-attended presentation about the etiquette and very real-world value of retweets. He also talked about the value of Twitter as compared to other social networks in terms of conversion. Tags: Conference Although every power user's ego heart swells with pride with each of these 140-character validations he receives, the small- and medium-sized business owners using Twitter for marketing have a much more tangible interest at stake. There are Twitter Terms of Service that help dictate how content is shared, and
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, June 4, 2009
    READ MORE
  • eLearning Conferences 2010
    Clayton Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences . http://www.security-defence-learning.com/ December 2-4, 2009 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 15 th , Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. asp December 3-4, 2009 International LAMS and Learning Design Conference, 4 th , MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page and so we’ve somewhat established a pattern of published in here. You can
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 19, 2009
    READ MORE
  • Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent
    As organizations move their social media strategies from theory to practice, they discover a difficult truth they must confront: Finding the "perfect" social media talent is practically impossible. Maybe they do know social media, but many don't. More broadly, most candidates for social media positions fall at the ends of a spectrum. To start, the field is flooded with thousands of self proclaimed "experts" who have reinvented themselves to take advantage what looks like a growing business opportunity. They need to be vetted.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, January 26, 2010
    READ MORE
  • 10 Social Media Travel Tools
    Thankfully, a host of social media tools can help you get the most out of every business trip you take and more clearly show ROI. Here are 10 ways social media can help you travel less but do more: Eventful and upcoming.org list conferences and professional gatherings in many cities. Travel budgets are under serious pressure right now. Trips that were once approved via rubber stamp now must pass through the Politburo Standing Committee to get a green light.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, March 6, 2009
    READ MORE
  • Twitter Conference Ideas
    Twitter has become a pretty great tool to help with socializing at conferences. Here are a few of the things we've been doing Twitter as Social Chat At both DevLearn and TechKnowledge , we created a hashtag and created a specific Twitter account that was the hub. There is also an interesting effect that people who are not attending still hear quite a bit about the conference and have some level of tangential participation. Using TweetLater and GroupTweet anyone who sent a direct message to the hub account then broadcast to everyone following that account.
    eLearning Technology - Friday, January 30, 2009
    READ MORE
  • Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters
    While he says he can't "guarantee" this type of social advertising will make it to Digg, it's certainly an attractive ideal. Social Advertising? And although he likes the idea of user involvement when it comes to advertising, Rose noted that there are two problems with these forms of social ads; people are generally conservative and scared to expose their brand in that way, also, the tools aren't there to foster discussion. Digg , which has spent four years trying to level the playing field and democratize media, will soon receive a facelift. According to Kevin
    ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, April 23, 2009
    READ MORE