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Training, and especially the trend for greater use of informal learning methods, is driving the workforce enablement groups in HR to hastily ping some social computing tool or technology, and later seek out how it should be integrated with the rest of the company.

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In Europe migrants are especially vilified, for instance, while in America religion and conspiracy theories are the driving forces.

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