Plus: Free 100-Page e-Book
With case studies, references,
tips and tactics, forms, templates,
and process flows.

Why Attend
Mainstream Social Networking is a viable corporate learning solution. Corporate versions of YouTube, FaceBook, Flickr, LinkedIn, WIKIs, Blogs, SecondLife, and other virtual methods - are invading businesses in a large way. However, the challenges and issues that confront leaders, managers, trainers and learning specialist are: How do we introduce these new methods and tools to directly impact and improve learning and performance? How do we manage work cultures and learning behaviors to meld with socially-driven, collaborative and open-architecture software solutions? How do we implement these changes to ensure that our investments bring about results?

Through a series of case studies, examples, demonstrations and guided hands-on social networking exercises, the workshop will help you design and implement a plan that will leverage Social Networking in your organization. The workshop will enhance your skill set as a leader, manager, and specialist in introducing Social Networking in your organizations.

This session benefits those who wish to advance themselves and obtain knowledge to be a champion, leader, prime mover or contributor in their organizations' push to leverage Social Networking.

Topics
In this session you will learn to:

• Back up your plans with research-based proof that Social Networking improves organizational learning and performance
• Apply ideas from case studies in selecting, implementing, and monitoring Social Networking
• Identify the criteria of a good fit with the culture, technology, participant skills, and outcomes;
• Set up a benchmark model that will correlate social networking interactions with measurable performance outcomes;
• "Seed" Social Networks with micro-content, user-created content, and other sources, e.g. e-learning, references, knowledge objects, video, audio, etc.
• Select which projects, topics and work demands, skill sets, and tasks that warrant Social Networking learning methods;
• Match Social Networking tools and software with the right projects, scope and participants;
• Select tools that enable you to display visual and graphical Social Networks or Sociograms;
• Integrate the data from social networking tools into your LMS or blended programs;
• Use the six-step process for integrating Social Networking learning and performance
• Identify skills sets for Social Networking champions, leaders, managers, specialists, trainers and developers using Social Networking methods
• Present a plan to management and show justification for implementing Social Networking projects.

Note: This workshop is about managing and implementing Social Networking initiatives to improve learning and performance. Social Networking and Web 2.0 software, e.g. Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, RSS Readers, SecondLife, Twitter, Goal-Driven Social Networking, and collaborative tools will be illustrated and demonstrated. Participants will be required to join exercises to familiarize themselves with the tools. It is recommended that participants review and participate with some Social Networking activities before the workshop. Suggestive list and activities will be provided upon registration to the workshop.

Certification Criteria
The purpose of the Certificate in Social Network Learning Facilitator is to provide official recognition that the participant has acquired the basic knowledge and implementation skills of facilitating and implementing Social Networking as a learning process.

Extra Benefit - Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking System
Successful candidates will receive a one year free account to use an Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking System to support implementation of internal or external projects.

Certification Fee
Participants interested to join the certification program are required to pay an additional fee of $495 on top of the workshop registration.