If your IT department has not yet deployed Sharepoint get them to read this post from Thomas Vanderwal which includes the following telling quote: “We went from 5 silos in our organization to hundreds in a month after deploying SharePoint”. MORE >>

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience - Full Circle , March 23, 2009. Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. Et tu, KK? MORE >>

For instance, there is a big difference between Sharepoint and Facebook, though both enable some kind of collaboration. Informal, opportunity-drive (serendipitous) collaboration is more like the free-for-all of an event like #lrnchat. Communities Informal Learning NetworkedLearning SocialLearning MORE >>

Yesterday Yammer (the private micro-blogging service) announced on its blog , that  using the Yammer SharePoint Web Part "you can access your Yammer feed directly inside SharePoint, eliminating the. need to toggle between SharePoint and Yammer"   and more. existing workflow. MORE >>

I've been collecting examples of Social Learning in the Workplace for some time now here on this page at my website, but have just come across this major case study on how TELUS is using Sharepoint to embrace social computing and streamline formal learning.  point of a new information and social learning initiative. classes. MORE >>