Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning

New social media technologies and strategies provide quick, easy solutions to many of the challenges faced by workplace training practitioners. Social media vehicles such as Twitter and Facebook, for example, can help trainers build learning communities, facilitate quick assignments, offer updates or follow–up tips, and otherwise extend the reach of the formal training event. Social Media for Trainers is the first how–to guide on the incorporation of social networking techniques into a trainer′s repertoire. It covers the most popular Web 2.0 tools for instructor–created content (blogs), community–created content (wikis), micro–blogging (Twitter), and community sharing and interaction (Facebook), all with detailed instruction on conducting several training/training–related activities.