Learning and Professional Development

While social media is a fabulous tool for connecting with people outside of your organization, it's also a great way for staff to engage in learning and professional development.

Self-Directed Learning

• Using a blog to reflect on personal professional practices.
• Read and comment on blogs related to professional interests--scroll down on this page for the information on finding and commenting on blogs.
• The One Sentence Journal activityl - This could be done on a blog or using Twitter (which would make it the 140 character Journal). Lrn2Day is an example of using Twitter to aggregate "one thing I learned today" items and build a learning community.
• Look for people on Delicious who add interesting items and add them to your network. See this article on the Power of Networking with Delicious.
• 5 Ways to Get Your Questions Answered on Twitter
• 7 Tactics for Lifelong Learning on LinkedIn
• 12 Step Plan for Learning About Social Media

Organizational Learning

• Blogging for Learning - examples of several different ways you can use blogs to support learning.
• Organizational reflective practices
• Learning 2.0 for Associations eBook (PDF) - Some good examples in here.
• Blogs as Online Learning and Professional Development Presentation on SlideShare
• 69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies Scribd Document