When starting out as a new business owner, time and money is a precious commodity, in limited supply. With each aspect of building a company from the ground up eating away at the bank balances, stress levels can quickly rise, and things can become rather overwhelming. In business, one of the most important aspects is…
Category: Social Learning
4 New Careers You Can Start in Night School
Being stuck in a low-paying job or trying to make due with a career that offers little to no chance for advancement is a common problem. Issues like tuition costs and the time needed to go back to school find countless professionals unable to obtain the training and education they need in order to succeed….
4 Reasons Why Switching Careers Has No Age Limit
You’ve found yourself in a rut with your job and think there’s nothing left to do but wait it out until retirement. If only you had realized this at a younger age, a time when you could’ve actually changed your career. Well, get this: you can still find a new career. These are four reasons…
Let’s Play Ball: Gamification For Businesses
Gamification – have you heard the term? The odds are high that if you haven’t, then you will soon. Recently, this method of increasing customer participation has taken off within the industry. It’s the process of using video game-style features to boost the customer experience. For the most part, it tends to make marketing more…
Retirement Planning Blogs Can Ring Up Ideas
Blogs have become more than just a place to share your thoughts or vent your opinions. They are a source of information, of ideas that can provide helpful solutions to readers. For those who are thinking about retiring, they can assist in making decisions that will provide financial stability during those years. Retirement planning providers…
The New Era of the Connected Employee
This animated educational video moderated by Susan Emerick, Manager of Digital Strategy & Development at IBM, shares insight into what it takes to be a social business.
Content Curation in 5 Easy Steps
Here are 5 tips to making sure you are curating content thoughtfully and to ensure that you get the most benefit from sharing. Find a topic that interests you. If you are not interested in the content you are curating, why would anyone else be? Subscribe to lots of great feeds. I start each day…
5 Steps to Writing an Effective Blog Post
You want to start a blog? Getting started is easier than you think. Here are 5 easy steps to follow to write a blog post that other people will want to read (and how they would be able to find it!) Step 1: Pick a topic. Write about something you are interested in, something you…
Course Design – Online Classes with Flexible Options
What is HyFlex? According to Brian J. Beatty of SFSU, HyFlex combines both online and face-to-face teaching and learning activities in a setting where students may choose whether or not to attend face-to-face sessions … with no “learning deficit.” HyFlex course design is built around four fundamental principles: Learner Choice, Equivalency, Reusability, and Accessibility. Learner…
Piazza: Social Question and Answer Tool
Do you teach online? Do you hate the native discussion tools in your LMS? There are some interesting options emerging that could replace (or add another dimension) to online discussions. Enter Piazza, the social question and answer tool. Piazza is a question-and-answer website for students to discuss topics about individual classes. Professors can set up…