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Expanding Communities of Practice | Instructional Design Fusions
A community of practice refers to a network of individuals joined by a common domain of interest. Members typically engage in joint activities, face similar challenges, and share similar tools and resources. It makes a lot of sense to organize learning management systems to address the needs of communities of practice in order to share the resources and knowledge developed by individual members of such a community. Keeping the best and fighting the worst traits of communities
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The first thing you notice about the baby is her eyes. Bright and sparkling, they stare at you from every wall in Jenny Scott's office. But the most captivating picture of Allie Scott is tucked inside a silver charm around her mother's neck. The charm arrived in Scott's mailbox five years ago, wrapped in plain brown paper. The sender: unknown.
Social media is just fine. You’re the one screwing up.
Surely, by now, you’ve heard about the Leo Laporte rant over his missing Google Buzz activity. It’s just the latest in a long line of similar stories, but it brings up some deeper issues that I can’t seem to find addressed elsewhere. That said, I’ll be today’s soapbox star and we’ll see how this turns out.
Dianne Rees is a writer and instructional designer at Atomic Meme, with a particular passion for improving health literacy by creating patient-friendly eLearning. Specialties include biotechnology, health care, and legal eLearning and training. elearning edtech education mlearning mobile elearning instructional design training hcsm healthcare medical education biotechnology pharmaceuticals genetics fda intellectual property graphic design captivate adobe web design
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After writing a couple of columns about the advantages of creating a Facebook business page, I thought I should tell you how to go about doing so. This won't be a detailed technical tutorial. Some companies are building whole e-commerce storefronts around Facebook's application programming tools, but you can get started much more simply. You want to get started now, so you can capture your business "username"--a short address like www.facebook.com/carrcomm that you feature on business cards, brochures or your e-mail signature. Some marketing experts believe capturing your Facebook page name (along with your Twitter URL) is proving almost as important as capturing your Internet domain name (See " The Facebook Opportunity " and " How Facebook Changes Marketing and Sales "). No. 2 is a prerequisite for No. 3 because Facebook will not let you establish a username until you have a minimum number of people register.
