Social media is being widely used to support learning. It has evolved into a powerful tool for training and learning professionals. Social media offers new opportunities to share knowledge and experiences in fun and exciting ways. Today, let’s look at how social media can be used during the various phases of a typical training cycle.

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Earlier you had very limited ability to project your thoughts on media tools, but now after the coming of new social media tools, we have the chance to interact by merely asking for comments, polls, etc. Nowadays, the most popular social media tools are Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg it, etc.

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In our earlier posts we have seen the benefits of social media and the ways of transforming learning in the workplace through social media. Now here I’m going to spread spark on how to use social media as part of our learning strategy.

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A few of the common social media tools – Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Blogs and Media sharing, which includes YouTube and SlideShare – are transforming learning in the workplace. Let’s see how.

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While your training session is going on, one of your employees is busy sending tweets on some issue she needs solutions for. Another employee is switching tabs from your online course to his Facebook page where he is actively following a discussion on a real-life, work-related problem. With employees being increasingly expected to hit the ground running, they have to come up with interim solutions to their learning needs, even as they wait for suitable formal training solutions.

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