A well-implemented learning community can dramatically improve organizational effectiveness by intelligently matching people to the resources they need to accelerate informal learning. It solves problems traditional methods cannot by connecting people to others and content relevant to their skills, interests, goals and experiences. With features like tags, categories and open-ended questions, a learning community can be launched within 30 days to provide insights from users' profiles and accelerate overall learning in the organization.

1. Mark Sylvester CEO, introNetworks Social Networking as a Strategic Part of Your Learning Strategy

2. Learning 2.0 Participation Usability Convergence Informal Learning Standardization User Generated Content Design The Long Tail Wikis Joy of Use Simplicity AJAX OpenAPIs Blended Learning Folksonomy DataDriven Social Software Recommendation Distance Learning SOAP XML Collaboration Perpetual Beta User Centered Blogs Forums

4. How a Learning Community can be a strategic component of any training and development agenda Why build one at all?

5. A Learning Community can dramatically improve…

6. A well implemented Learning Community optimizes organizational effectiveness by intelligently matching people to the people and resources they need to accelerate informal learning.

7. Specific problems a learning community solves that are currently unsolved using traditional methods “ Three Example Communities”

10. How building an online community to support an e-Learning agenda is easier to accomplish you think… “ Key Things to Think About”

12. Design Goals: The User Experience

17. Typical Production Steps A Community can be launched in under 30 days Unless you try to do it by committee

19. A well designed Learning Community optimizes organizational effectiveness by intelligently matching people to the people and resources they need and accelerates overall learning .

20. Invaluable insights are instantly available as a result of access to the detailed profiles within a Learning Community “ Just a few to consider”

22. Learning Community Insights

23. “ For learning organizations looking to bring social networking tools to the enterprise, the best course of action is to start slowly but start now.” ‘ The writing is on the wall’ CLO Magazine Oct 2008 Josh Bersin