Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Harold Jarche
On 21 April 2009 Corporate Learning Trends will be organizing sessions, speakers and workshops online; all for free. The main topic is the future of organizational learning and development. Follow the link to make any suggestions on topics of interest, format, times and delivery modes. The previous sessions were well-attended and the whole togetherLearn gang [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
In March, LCB asked where would workplace learning be in 10 years. I responded that work and learning would continue to be more integrated and later wrote that soft skills, especially collaboration and networking, will become more important than hard skills. Saul Carliner just wrote long-live instructor-led training, opening with: In March 2009 the monthly [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
It hadn’t really occurred to me before that pilots are an almost inextricable aspect of Enterprise 2.0. Of course the ‘iterate and refine’ concept can be implemented in other ways, but I think it’s fair to say that organizations absolutely need to get good at running pilots, if they’re not already there. It is a [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Ontario Court Orders Website To Disclose Identity of Anonymous Posters Protection for anonymous postings is certainly not an absolute, but a high threshold that requires prima facie evidence supporting the plaintiff’s claim is critical to ensuring that a proper balance is struck between the rights of a plaintiff (whether in a defamation or copyright case) [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
There are several factors that should be looked at when creating a collaborative working/learning space. I’ve previously referred to Column Two’s three tiers of collaboration – Capacity, Capability & Strategy and it’s a good model to start with. Part of capacity are the existing processes and culture of collaboration while capability includes the best tools [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
If we don’t bust down the industrial-age silos in our organizations, their walls will inevitably crash down on us. Just ask the News department that had walls between print and the Web. Three years ago Jon Husband called for an amalgamation of support functions in the networked workplace or eOD (e-OrganizationalDevelopment). Luis Suarez has suggested [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Twitter is a great source of information. Here are some “tweets” that caught my attention and I’ve added as “favorites”. An eclectic mix of tools, tips, information and ideas: sleslie how did I never know about the <acronym> tag? http://snurl.com/adf6y shantarohse When you want the whole discussion not just a monologue. TwitterScope by @designmeme shows [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2009 by Harold Jarche
The Great Disruption is on. Globalized, kleptocratic powers are trying to control the change by grabbing the monetary system while at the same time the Web has enabled empowering, grassroots initiatives like Kiva.org to spring up. As stock prices plummet and currency fluctuates, even the unwashed masses, who never understood derivatives, are realizing that money [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
From SocialCollider.net (via @gsiemens): With the Internet’s promise of instant and absolute connectedness, two things appear to be curiously underrepresented: both temporal and lateral perspective of our data-trails. Yet, the amount of data we are constantly producing provides a whole world of contexts, many of which can reveal astonishing relationships if only looked at through [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2009 by Harold Jarche
Last night at ThirdTuesdayNB the conversation came around to how to implement social media in large, bureaucratic organizations without creating a white elephant type of project that takes years to implement. Michele Martin just posted some social media baby steps that have worked for her, particularly: Static website => blog Wikis for committee work to [...]
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