Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/50188
"Use hashtags to tag information for easy searching." groups, private messaging, the ability to share files, links and images, a company directory, fully searchable tagged content, and you can connect anywhere with the Yammer mobile app. Yammer can also be configured to link into SharePoint 2010. "The Total Economic Impact of Yammer" states that Yammer is used in 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies. SocialText 5.0: SocialText is an enterprise social networking platform designed for collaboration with a location to create, share and manage content. It includes capabilities to generate and edit content such as blogs and wikis. Add-on modules, Socialtext People and SocialRadar, allow for user profiles and help learners find the relevant people with whom they need to connect and collaborate within their network. Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Although it requires significant development work to design and implement a social learning platform with SharePoint, many will head this direction…and for good reason. 30 Tech Potpourri ILTA White Paper SharePoint 2010 is much improved over the limited MySite and discussion boards available in SharePoint 2007. When SharePoint 2010 is combined with Office Lync Server and Microsoft Office Communicator, the "presence" tool allows learners to see if someone is online, in a meeting or offline, allowing for better connections and collaboration. Features include the note board (which functions like a "wall" for various postings), a colleague Web part and a Web part that shows your commonalities with other users. Because SharePoint is content-rich, users can see recently touched documents and blog posts and tag and post notes on other pages. TAKE ACTION! In our research of companies using social media for learning, we've discovered that there is plenty of talk, but not a whole lot of action. We can certainly understand that. It is often easier to keep things . Plus it feels like a huge undertaking. But it doesn't status quo