Harold Jarche

Note: The Cluetrain Manifesto celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Cluetrain #1 Markets are conversation. Without conversation (oral, written, graphical, physical) there are no social transactions. This has been the key aspect of the un-marketing approach for my consulting business. It’s not just markets, but learning and working are mostly conversation as well. I’ve also [...]

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Lots of industry predictions (like this for e-learning) coming out are linked to the recession, but perhaps the best predictions are those focused on demographics, because we know that almost all 20 year-olds today will be 30 in ten years. It’s hard to refute those numbers. Judy Martin made 7 Work Life Culture Predictions this [...]

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Dave Cormier has written a great article on selecting a content management system (CMS). Dave discusses three platforms, all of which I have used – WordPress, Moodle, Drupal. All are open source and there are a variety of hosting models available for most budgets. Like Dave, I’m not crazy about Moodle because it replicates the [...]

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At some point in the life of a discipline there is a drive toward certification. Want to be a real estate agent? It’s a quality thing, so we’re told. I was once a Certified Performance Technologist, and as I said to Dave Ferguson, I don’t see much value in re-certification when it consists of checking [...]

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Guest post by Graham McTavish Watt Apropos of nothing other than a getting over a haggis munch yesterday at the Robbie Burn’s Evening, let me run this by your keen eyes. The Inuit people have been teaching and learning for at least a thousand years. And their learning is important because frequently the lack of [...]

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I get a lot of unsolicited e-mail asking me to review a new product or service, a small portion that actually gets my attention. A recent e-mail said how much the writer liked my post on inverting the pyramid, and by the way, their product enabled this: Now, what if you could incorporate social media [...]

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Grassroots Community Building through Social Networks is the topic that John Gunn (Moncton ITA) and I will be discussing at PodCamp Halifax on Sunday. Lisa Rousseau can’t make it, so we’re pinch-hitting. John and I have decided to take a look some of the professional and social networks in New Brunswick and ask the question: [...]

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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom could be sub-titled everything you wanted to know about social media but didn’t have the time ask. The book is definitely comprehensive and is complete with hundreds of stories about the effects of online social networking. Anyone who is active in using and understanding social media may find this a [...]

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Last month I wrote that it’s time to invert the pyramid and integrate learning into all that we do. Part of the research that led me to that conclusion was the notion of complexity and Dave Snowden’s cynefin framework. The cynefin framework comes up again in Patrick Lamb’s post looking at 3 different types of [...]

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I was asked to develop a list of important resources, especially the blogs that I find most valuable in my work. Since my work is focused on the intersection of learning, work and technology and especially how learning and working are becoming integrated in networked organisations, these are not just edtech blogs. These are not [...]

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