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In Blog Cascadia Kevin Jones reports on Tony Karrer’s conference session on social learning at ASTD’s TechKnowledge conference being held in San Antonio.

The size of the conference, for those who haven’t been top an ASTD event, can be gleaned from attendance of 250 people at one of 12 concurrent sessions. 

Yet only about 6 in the room admitted that they currently use social networking as a learning delivery technique. In response to a survey, most wanted to use these tools “alongside formal learning.” This implies to the source that social networking is not on the learning plan – it happens independently.

The barriers to implementation in the workplace appear to be:
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