Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. Now What? MORE >>

Here are some of the highlights of what Mark had to say, via the Twitter stream that accompanied yesterday’s conversation: Getting new hires to narrate their work, through blogs and other social media, is a good practice. Any initial mistakes were corrected and now these FAQ are on a Yammer page for easy access. Tweet. MORE >>

A few days ago Arie Goldshlager pointed me to the fantastic video below of Giam Swiegers, CEO of Deloitte Australia, talking about the company’s use of micro-blogging. Shortly after Forrester announced that Deloitte Australia’s Yammer network had won its 2011 Forrester Groundswell award in the category of Collaboration Systems. MORE >>

Yammer is one such platform, and Jared Spataro , at the Microsoft Office Division, has this to say about Yammer’s place in their business model: What should I do? Yammer or the SharePoint newsfeed?”  ”  My answer has been clear: Go Yammer!  Yammer would be one tool to help with that engineering. MORE >>

Deloitte’s success with enterprise micro-blog Yammer led to Yammer asking Deloitte if they could create a case study. In that process Deloitte correlated Yammer usage with staff information. One discovery was that staff turnover of active Yammer users was 2%, substantially below the company average. MORE >>