With only two months left in the year it is time to make some predictions on how social media will impact your employee development and training in 2010. As I gaze into my crystal ball I can honestly say that these are the tools that will make the biggest difference for you and your learners.
1. Microblogging- I am sure you are sick to death of me talking about Twitter, but hopefully this will prompt you to finally open up an account and see what it is all about. If you aren’t a fan of Twitter there are a few other sites that provide microblogging functionality: Plurk, Tumblr, Jaiku. Whatever the platform, we will start to leverage microblogging sites to stay in contact with our learners before, during, and after employee development and training programs. Also, as discussed in How to Inspire Informal Learing by Sharing Conference Insights, we will use microblogging to faciliate informal learning between employees.
2. Text & Voice Messaging- According to Greg Sterling of Internet2Go, 90% of people “never leave home” without their wireless phone. However m