Comments on: Objection #4: Posting Anything, Including Bonobos

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By: Rahul Banerji

Rahul Banerji — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:08:12 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for responding. Being in the learning & development field in India, I am afraid we are still following what Tony would describe as eLearning1.0 and blended learning primarily means a mix of ILTs and WBTs which are top-down rather than bottom up.

Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook are still used by the younger age group still for catching up with friends and socializing. I am not sure that the age-group is mature enough to understand and fully appreciate the power of Web2.0 and use this medium to learn. Moreover, as there really isn’t a composite method of tracking the learning, I am unsure of the extent to which this method would be successful.

I am here trying to change the way learning happens and move the user base away from conventional top-down learning but am unsure as to how well it would work.

Do not think that I am closed to the methods, on the contrary I am all for it. It’s just that I am trying to figure out a way to take the first step.

By: Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:41 +0000

I believe that is the difference between the outside world’s use of social networking and an organization’s. Within an organization, social networking is used to communicate and learn and share within that context. And the huge majority of the time it is not abused – even by 19-24 year olds. I have seen this work very well with this type of audience.

Can you say more about why you don’t thing the younger group will use it correctly?

By: Rahul Banerji

Rahul Banerji — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:47:09 +0000

Hi, I am into Learning & Development. I believe a way of solving this might well be posting blogs from within the environment by people who are SMEs of a particular function or process and having employees respond to this on the company intranet. This facilitates healthy discussion – i.e. learning and also takes care of the fact that the information can be corrected if it is not appropriate.

In the larger world this is another matter altogether with people using their discretion and experience to sift through the plethora of information and deciphering for themselves what authentic information would be.

Your thoughts have merit, but I am not sure it might be effective in a situation where the average employee age is around 19 – 24 and in an environment where social networking is primarily for the very purpose rather than dissipation of useful information.