Harold Jarche

Jon Steinman presented “Deconstructing Dinner” last night at Mount Allison University: He’s touring the Maritimes with his theme of food purchases as investments, not expenditures. Jon showed that 90% of beef slaughtering occurs in only 5 plants across the country, just one example of corporate concentration in the industrial food system. Corporate Concentration results in: [...]

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I’m following up on my post earlier this month on “free-agentry“: My own observations include the notion that Work 2.0 has resulted in more fluid and ongoing job searches, that learning is becoming part of work routine and that we now take our social networks wherever we move and need the workplace less for socialization. [...]

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A friend asked about online repositories of photos that can be used for academic presentations and I mentioned several sources. I realized after sending the list that many others may not know about the wealth of resources available, especially for  teaching and learning. Online photo repositories (check usage rights for each): Free images for your [...]

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Weekly summary of interesting items I’ve found on Twitter: Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind (a must read) “facts learned by rote & at a younger age bypass a person’s critical & reflective capacities” The BioTeaming Manifesto via @jonhusband some similarities with wirearchy Killing off Mickey Mouse: Open Knowledge, Open Innovation via [...]

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The survey results from the Chief Learning Officer survey show that 77% of respondents feel that people in their organization are not growing fast enough to keep up with the business. Is this anyone’s fault or just a sign of the times? Human performance in most organization is an afterthought, if thought of at all. [...]

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As more of our social and work life moves online there is a growing demand for community managers. Betrand Duperrin discusses the differences between community managers and organizational managers (in English & in French), stating that “Sometimes you need a community manager. Sometimes a manager is enough…” I’ve discussed The Community Manager before and others [...]

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Anthony Poncier (in French) covers the eight challenges of management in the virtual era, which I’ve loosely translated: Being concurrently nomadic and collaborative. Renewing the workplace social contract. Creating new modes of leadership. Creating value, not just revenue. The production of collective knowledge. Managing with both IQ and EQ (emotional quotient). A diverse community rather [...]

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Just picked up my copy of Jay Cross’ latest book, Work Smarter, which sells through Lulu for a reasonable $19.99. As Jay says, this is not a traditional book. It’s an unbook and not meant to be read linearly, though you can if you want. It covers a wide variety of topics, as you can [...]

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Writing If TV Ads were Free, Seth Godin looks at the business and says that the reason there was so much talk about advertising instead of just doing it was because TV ads are expensive. Not all ideas could make it to the broadcast medium. However, with web social media, the cost is minimal with [...]

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A weekly compilation of  the interesting things I’ve found on Twitter: via @1ernesto1 “Dear teachers, we trust you with the children but not the Internet. Yours truly, THE ADMINISTRATION.” @RalphMercer: “Gen Y is just a tag that describes how much adults have forgotten on what it is like to be a teen … and the [...]

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