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How to fail with Twitter

How to fail with Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter since 2007, and though I’m not in the same league as celebrities (or z-listers)  who count their followers in hundreds of thousands, I’m comfortable knowing that my following has been grown organically, I’ve never ever paid for new followers, and I do know and recognise most of them in the virtual world we populate. There’s much been written about how to use social media – most of it crap, and most aimed at marketing, brand promotion…

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Communities of Practice – What I’ve Learnt

Communities of Practice – What I’ve Learnt

I  was recently asked  by a colleague to share some “words of wisdom” about what I’d learnt from 9 years of consultancy projects that involved setting up Communities of Practice. I could have written an essay on this topic (and maybe one day I will) but I thought I’d distill it down to the key points as follows: The Basics: We don’t know what we don’t know. People don’t learn from content, they learn from other people. You can’t force…

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