USING TWITTER TO MAKE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT &

BLENDED LEARNING
EFFECTIVE

JONALD E. LOCQUIAO,EdD

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 Established
165+
clients in
in 2004
13
countries
UK
US
India
Middle East

Venezuela
Australia
Nigeria Kenya Singapore

S.Africa
New Zealand

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 Our
learning
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Custom/ Custom/Bespoke
Bespoke mLearning
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 30+
Awards &
recognitions

Winner of
Winner of 11 Brandon Hall eLearning Team Of The Year Winner of 7 Apex
Excellence Awards 2013 Awards of Excellence
(‘12, '11, '10 & '09) ('11, '09, '08 & '07)

UpsideLMS listed as one of Winner of a Silver award in CLO UpsideLMS featured in the '2010
the 'Five Emerging LMSs to Watch' magazine's 'Learning In Practice Top 20 Learning Portal Companies List' &
in CLO Magazine ('10) Awards 2011' for UpsideLMS '2011 & 2012 Watch List‘
by TrainingIndustry.com

Winner of Red Herring 100 Asia Winner in Deloitte’s Technology

Award in 2008 & finalist Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 & 2009 program,
in Red Herring Global 100 ('09) and Fast 50 India 2008 program

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Presenter
s

Helen
Blunden
Founder of Activate Learning
Solutions

Jeevan Joshi
Director Client Solutions – Asia
Pacific

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 USING TWITTER TO BUILD A
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK

My name is
Helen Blunden
and I’m
@ActivateLearn

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 WHAT DO YOU USE TWITTER FOR?
A POLL…

What do you mainly use Twitter for?

(Select one response)

What's Twitter? I don't use it.

Sharing, learning, connecting and networking
Having a whinge or sharing an opinion
Conversations with friends
Stalking celebrities

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 WHAT DO YOU USE TWITTER FOR?

What’s Twitter? Sharing, Learning Having a whinge

& Connecting for or opinion
Networking

Conversations with Stalking Celebrities Lurk But Not Tweet

friends

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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TWITTER?

Write your
comments in the
box provided

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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TWITTER?

No-one is interested
in what I had for I’ve got nothing to
breakfast! say!

I don’t know anyone

It’s a waste of my on Twitter!
time!

There’s no real
It’s for young people! purpose for it

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 WHAT WE WILL COVER TODAY…

The benefits of using Twitter as

the tool to create, build and grow
your own learning network

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 WHAT IS TWITTER…

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Read More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

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SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLAINED

http://www.geek.com/geek-
cetera/social-media-explained-with-
13 donuts-1466613 /
A COMMUNITY…

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A COMMUNITY…

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BUT WHY WOULD YOU NEED A NETWORK?
WELL CONSIDER WHAT HAPPENS ONLINE… IN A MINUTE

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http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/2012/12/05/60-seconds-things-that-happen-on-internet-every-sixty-seconds-infographic
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Image by EmmiP JPEG URI: http://mrg.bz/KWk8tb
 NETWORKS MAKE US....
ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNERS

In a world of increasingly rapid change, the half life of a given

skill is constantly shrinking, at around 5 years. So it’s going to
become a vital skill for everyone in this new world of flows, to
stay on top of all the new knowledge and skills relevant to
today’s employment market place.

Jane Hart, Learning in the Social Workplace (@C4LPT)

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 BENEFITS OF A NETWORK

 Increase your capability

 Keep up-to-date in your field
 Build networks into new fields, areas, industries,
interests and passions
 Collaborate with others locally, nationally,
internationally
 Create value for your team and your organisation
 Engage with your work, increase your productivity
and become more creative and inspired

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TWITTER GROWS YOUR NETWORK…BUT
YOU HAVE TO WORK AT IT

Networking,
not tweeting…

• Participate don’t lurk

• Contribute don’t shirk
• Share don’t hold
• Trust don’t fear
Graphic: Google Images – labelled for reuse
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My PLN

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PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME…

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WATCH THIS…(WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVdHkjJVuxQ
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THE DIALOGUE…

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Image by debs http://www.flickr.com/photos/debschultz/528230215/
 What if what I
What if they find write online is
out what I
write? WHO TO FOLLOW? misconstrued?

Should I use Will I lose my

another name?
job?
Another profile?

How do I
explain this to My colleagues
my boss? think this is
geek stuff

ARE YOU AFRAID?

DON’T BE…
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 DIP YOUR TOES IN THE WATER

 Open a Twitter account

 Follow leaders in learning and then see who
they follow
 Join in on the conversation
 Participate in a Tweet Chat
 #OzLearn: 2nd Tuesday of every month at 8pm
 #Lrnchat: Every Friday at midday

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 WORKSHOPS ON OFFER FOR YOUR
LEARNING TEAMS…

 Twitter for Professional Development

 Using Yammer in Learning
 Blogging for Professional Development
 Content Curation & Tools

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FIND ME ON MY WEBSITE

Website and Blog:

www.activatelearning.com.au

Phone:
0438 884 730

Email:
helen.blunden@activatelearnin
g.com.au

Twitter:
@ActivateLearn

About Me:
http://about.me/helenblunden

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 TWITTER – SCALE & SIZE

645,750,000
Total number of active
registered Twitter users

135,000
Number of new Twitter
users signing up
everyday

@UpsideLearning
10, 500 tweets
5413 Following
Copyright Marisa Allegra Williams (@marisa) for Twitter, Inc. 7575 Followers

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 TWITTER – SCALE & SIZE

58 million
Average number of
tweets per day

 9,100
Number of tweets
every
second

 40%
of Twitters who don’t
Copyright Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. tweet but watch other
people tweet
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 TWITTER IN BUSINESS

Customer Partners Employe

s es

Customer Service Partner Training, Employee Comms

Marketing Comms Learning
Innovation Project
Sales Work

5.85 M 56.9K

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EMPLOYEE USE OF WEB 2.0

Business and Web 2.0:McKinsey

2013
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UPSIDE LMS – DESIGNED FOR SOCIAL
LEARNING

 Integration with
Lvie Twitter
 Internal
Microblogging
 Friends &
followers concept
 Photos and
videos sharing and
rating
 Blog
 My RSS Feeds
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EMPLOYEE USE OF WEB 2.0

Business and Web 2.0:McKinsey

2013
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UPSIDE LMS – RECOGNISED FOR SOCIAL

2Golds for Blended or

Informal Learning

3 Silvers for Social

Learning Technology

2 Silvers for Learning

Management Technology for
SMBs

1 Gold for Compliance

Training

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 TWITTER FOR LEARNING

ONLINE ONLINE
COURS COURS
E E

LMS

HR OR TALENT SYSTEM

PORTAL

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UPSIDE LMS – DESIGNED FOR TWITTER

1 2

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 IMPLEMENTING SOCIAL LEARNING

Governance &
Expectations

Content LM
Curation
Quantity + S
Quality
Cours
Community
Management e
Flow + Value
Add Cohort

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USER CASE 1 – CLASS ROOM TRAINING

Pre Post
Perf
Classroo Classroom Training Classroo
Suppor
m m
t
Activities Activities

Where can you use Twitter &/or Microblogging ?

Use Chat Box

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 USER CASE 1 – CLASS ROOM TRAINING

Pre Post
Perf
Classroo Classroom Training Classroo
Suppor
m m
t
Activities Activities

•Requirements •Gather comments & •Reinforce key •Reinforce key

gathering insights learning learning
• Course • External resources • Feedback •New
logistics • Feedback resources
• Pre Reading

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 USER CASE 2 – ONLINE TRAINING

Post
Perf
Online Training Classroo
Suppor
m
t
Activities

Where can you use Twitter &/or Microblogging ?

Use Chat Box

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 THANK YOU

Contact Call to Action

Us  Visit our websites
Helen Blunden
Activate Learning  Follow up on Twitter
@ActivateLearn
www.activatelearning.com.au
 Ask for a demo of
the social features
Jeevan Joshi
of Upside LMS
Upside Learning

@UpsideLearning
www.upsidelearning.com

@jeevesj

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