Elearning - June/July 2008 - (Page 31) Today’s Water Cooler In today’s geographically fragmented corporate world, it often isn’t possible for employees to conduct informal knowledge-sharing chats while standing toe to toe. Thankfully, technology is preserving the all-important “social networking” component of e-learning. “Getting employees to be more effective through learning is an integral and important part of doing business today. The CORPORATE E-LEARNING GOES HIGH-TECH WITH WEB-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS. B Y J E R RY R O C H E and downloadable video, granular content access, Web 2.0 technologies and online community interaction “is placing tremendous pressure on the enterprise to respond,” says Tom Kelly, former vice president of Internet Learning Solutions at Cisco Systems. IT’S NOT SURPRISING Jeff Brainard, director of marketing for SocialText Inc., says that we shouldn’t be surprised by the newest technology. “We’ve always been pioneers,” he notes. “We’ve been working together since the dawn of civilization, and it’s not that different today. The tools change, but each tool provides additional benefits, like more strucElearning! June/July 2008 31 challenge is enormous,” says Yogesh Gupta, president and CEO of Fatwire Software. “We’re seeing technology filling in the gaps to bring people and their knowledge together. Back when offices were centralized, people did this in conference rooms or in someone’s office or at the water cooler. Today, those discussions are taking place electronically.” The convergence of search, streaming
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