13 Facts about Social Media

Social media in the form of social websites is becoming quite a huge trend. I bet you can't name 5 people that aren't a member of some type of social media website like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. The Media Gazette gives a list of 13 facts about social media:

1. 90% of participants know at least 1 social networking sites

2. 72% of participants are members of at least 1 social networking sites

3. Facebook has the highest penetration

4. Users of social networking sites are saturated(no intention to stop)

5. On the average, users log in twice a day to social networking sites

6. Sending personal messages is the most popular online activity

7. On the average, people have about 195 friends

8. Everyone removes friends sometimes

9. People lack trust in their social network sites

10. 13% of users admits to having a far-from-real image on at least 1 social networking sites

11. Asian and West European’s online behaviour is totally different

12. More than 1 of 2 users cannot access their profiles at work

13. 20% of the online population are already users of a social networking site

To see the actual article, visit http://omgzam.com/13-mind-blowing-facts-on-social-media-2010/. They go more in depth on each topic on the list.

Best Buy moving to mobile training

So I just found out the other day that Best Buy is currently developing a portal to access all of their trainings through android devices that support flash 10.1. The roll out isn't scheduled until the end of the summer, and by then a lot of devices running older versions of android, will recieve the 2.2 update (such as the Moto Droid). Their idea behind this is to help employees find more time to access and complete trainings.

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Saba is a new learning management utility. This image is from the Saba website. It is essentially like blackboard, but provides built in functions that blackboard does not offer. Some of these features, as you can see, include real-time collaboration, and other useful tools, that have to be installed, or purchased seperatley with other utilities. They also offer the choice of hosting on your own servers, or on theirs, which for some companies may be necessary depending on their specific processing power. This system may, or may not take off, we'll just have to wait and see. But, it does look like a very intuitive application.

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Training utilities, no matter the method of delivery, all have one common goal. That is, to deliver pertinant information in an effective way that allows the student to learn the material. Some trends that are taking place, are obviously e-learning taking the place of traditional classroom instruction. In most cases, e-learning is cheaper to deliver, and just as effective. An issue comes in (mostly in workforce instruction) with e-learning when the students are allowed to "retake" e-learnings, which is almost every time in the workforce. The employees do not learn anything with this approach. They will just memorize clicks, or response position, and not the actual content. A good site to reference good tips, and useful tools for training, is http://www.bizlibrary.com/