Traditional HR systems for training and development had very few collaboration-focused activities. With the proliferation of social media, however, social-learning platforms have come to be an integral extension of learning management systems. By including content in such a way as to facilitate both formal and informal learning, these social learning systems are providing a venue for creation, discussion, interaction, and engagement around learning objectives. This channel seeks to share an understanding of social learning, and improve the learning systems that you might already have in place.
Social Learning Systems & Social HR
Web 2.0 innovations are increasingly shifting the HR software paradigm towards collaboration and social technology. Smart organizations understand this and are taking stock of social HCM functions like: feedback mechanisms for employees; social learning systems; recruiting through social media; and social collaboration platforms like company blogs and wikis.
Featured Social Media and Social HR Software Reviews
Jive has been a pioneer in the social media and social business software space, especially when it comes to the nexus of social technology and Human Capital Management (HCM). With a new IPO filing and a growing list of customers, the question is whether Jive has what it takes for the long haul. This vendor brief answers that question and many more.
One of the early visionary companies that brought social communities to the workplace, Telligent offers a time-tested platform on which to base social collaboration and communities for business learning and innovation. Universally lauded by various analyst firms, Telligent continues to expand global market share through flexible solutions that have the potential to transform the workplace.
Offering deep integration with Microsoft SharePoint, NewsGator's Social Sites software provides microblogging, social profiles, activity streaming, external interaction, mobile access, and expertise location. As such, it's not a stretch to say that NewsGator's Social Sites solution can offer a transformed social workplace to Microsoft clients.
Though more commonly associated with customer relationship management (CRM), social technology tools also have great potential for transforming a workforce into a highly collaborative and innovative entity. Here we provide our overview of the fundamental feature sets and opportunities of the social workplace; underpinned by the future-casting and predictions of the industry's top analysts.
From the first uses of social media to amplify recruiting efforts to efforts to wrangle the ever-elusive topic of effective performance management, social HR is positioned as the future of the workforce—replete with collaboration and engaged employees. Yet, for all the promises that HCM social software offers, efficacy questions still loom large. Namely, do the benefits of Social HCM actually measure up to the hype?
While far from majority adoption, the use of social technology tools in organizational learning initiatives is gaining ground. Offering the chance of boundary-less, just-in-time learning and truly collaborative knowledge sharing, social learning tools have the potential to transform the face of this HR function as well as the effectiveness and productivity of the organization overall.
The leveraging of social networking sites in the hiring process has gone beyond the early adopter phase and is increasingly a standard feature of any significant recruitment campaign. These 4 questions offer a broad insight into the current state of play of recruitment via social media technology and help organizations understand why to adopt a social recruiting strategy.
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