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written by David Kelly New York, NY, United States  //Just a little (relevant) holiday fun... //  **//__Twas the Night Before Social Media __//**  Twas the night before SoMe, and all through land,  Most training was lecture, engagement be damned;  Be it classroom or e-learning, the results disappoint,  and for some reason it all was made with PowerPoint. The learners were sleeping, or else they were vexed, by e-learning courses of "read, then click next";  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The trainers were talking, then talking some more,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Not realizing the learners felt it all was a chore. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">When out of the internet there arose such a thunder, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">based on this promise from a new techno wonder;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">“//Knowledge is not locked in an encyclopedia,//  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> //__<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone knows Everything __////<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">, bring on Social Media //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">!”   <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Some call it Social Media, some say Web 2.0, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">There’s really just one thing we all need to know;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The tech makes it easier to make learning full,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">and its power is shifting from ‘Push’ over to “Pull’. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">There were early adopters, and a number of Champs, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">who yearned to break learning out from it's clamps;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">"//Too long have we suffered//,” they started to cheer,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">"//Give learning to learners, and don't interfere!//"  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">They turned there attention to 'the way things have been',  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Then brought up their cross hairs and aimed with a grin...  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">"//Now ADDIE, now Rapid, and the ROI mess,//  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Now Learning Objectives and of course, LMS! // <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There was a time for your methods, which has now come to pass, //  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">And as you exit us now, don't let the door hit your... Class. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">"  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So they wrote up some rules, using indelible ink,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">That listed the terms that make us all drink;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many would say that the old ways are dead,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">But maybe some balance is needed instead;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">In truth things may not be quite so absolute,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">but the message at the core is hard to refute. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The message in question? It must be explored, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">This brand new technology can not be ignored;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Its one rule is simple, though hard to obey, "//__Let go of control and get out of the way!__//"  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Learning is not about what we can teach,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So please kill that lecture and way-to-long speech;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">The learners decide if they want to engage,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So it’s time that professionals got on that same page. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Social Media’s a tool that can help with this shift, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">For Learning Professionals, it’s really a gift;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">These tools can be used for any topic you cover,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">If you set up the format as ‘search and discover’. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">If there’s one thing that adult learners all seem to dread, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Its training events with the content spoon-fed;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So shift your tactics with an unexpected stunt,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Like converting your content to a scavenger hunt. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">“//But the costs!//” I can hear some of you say, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">“//We can’t afford any new tech today//”;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Well just take that excuse off your verbal marquee,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">As there are plenty of options, and many are FREE! <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">There’s Twitter, there’s LinkedIn, and of course there’s Facebook, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">All of which you can leverage if you just take a look;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Just look through the lens of our chosen vocation,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">It’s how we use these tools that’s the key deviation. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">So create a structure in which learners can pull, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Though you’ll find that your glass is still only half-full;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Fill the rest by avoiding any regulation,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">that places restrictions and results in negation. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Provide only structure, plus the tools and some tips, <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Then try to let learners just write their own scripts;  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Then sit back and let their engagement explode,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">and nurture the community being built on this road. <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">I hope you enjoyed this, for I now need to close, as I only have one more rhyme to compose; So I’ll close with a wink and a holiday sound bite,  <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4.8pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .4gd; text-align: center;"> //<span style="color: #e3041b; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">"Happy learning to all, and to all a good-night." //