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Welcome to CONNECT - the Charity Learning Consortium's new Quarterly Newsletter - delivering news, trends and opinions on learning and development to professionals in the Third Sector.

To kick-start this issue, we look at how social networking can provide powerful, free and inexpensive tools to enable you to share and learn together.

When people mention Twitter, Yammer, Facebook, do your eyes glaze over – or do you secretly wonder what all the fuss is about? Read on to find out!

Alex Dawson, Editor

How Learning at Work is Changing	Web-Watch
The social learning revolution threatens to by-pass much of what the training, or learning and development department has been about until now. If nothing else demands a re-think of the way L&D approaches skills development, it is the fact that a great deal of learning takes place without the department’s involvement. Donald Taylor, ‘Mr Learning Technologies’, looks at how the social learning revolution and a renewed emphasis on skills is changing the nature of learning at work.	Find out more about what has caught our eye on the net including: Time for training Goodbye LSC How to Moodle Induction Factsheet Training plan template CLC in the news Garry Platt’s L&D blog ‘Platt’s Puzzlings’ Learning at Work Day Martin Baker, CLC MD talking about the CLC at the Learning Pool Conference
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10 Simple Tips to Getting Started on Twitter

Choose a user name
Create your profile
Add a picture
Post your first tweet
Start following people
Join in the conversation
Take personal conversations offline
Use an app to sort your tweets
Some dos and don'ts
And finally - have fun!

Find out more information on our Twitter tips and check out what Tweets we recommend you follow (apart from Charity Learning Consortium of course!).

t: 08451 707 702	w: charitylearning.org
e: enquiry@charitylearning.org	: twitter.com/charitylearning

Formed in 2001 by six charities looking to share learning resources, the Charity Learning Consortium (CLC) now has more than 65 members and continues to grow from strength to strength.

The CLC provides members with a large portfolio of eLearning and also offers networking opportunities and a place to discuss best practice in the charity and voluntary sector.