Threats to Your Social Learning Strategy #TK10

Threat: Risk of Marginalization

http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/02/corporate-training.html

Threats

Changing demographics in the workplace

• X/Yers are use to getting things done on their own
• Twechnologiacally literate
• Conditioned to expect immediate gratification
• Skeptical of society and its nstitutions
• Lifelon learners
• Ambition

Trent: Consumer-oriented social media sets expectations for yoru users (Expectations from Consumer applications)

• Expectations include
• Overall user experience
• Immediacy
• Equality and egalitarinism
• Your formal (LMS) and social learning offerings have to compete for attention.

Competitions from other functional areas

• Trend: Introduction of Web 2.0 in the organization by other groups such as your marketing department
• AIIM’s Enterprise 2.0 survey “Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 – Work meets play or the future of business?” – http://www.aiim.org/Research/Collaboration-Enterprise20-Research.aspx

(Intrepid presentation)