Twitter FavesHere’s what caught my attention on Twitter this past week and some stuff left over from the week before: Quote of the Week: Ingmar Bergman likened aging to hiking up a mountain, “The longer one walks the more winded one becomes, but the view!” via @marciamarcia Food Sustainable Food Lab: accelerate the shift of sustainable [...]
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Dennis Callahan has a most interesting Posterous site, called LearnStreaming. His latest post shows this graphic, which I find reflects many of the concepts of personal knowledge management, but with some additional aspects that may make it easier to understand and do: Dennis has a clear and simple definition for Learnstreaming – publishing your learning [...]
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Last year I put down some working definitions in the field of performance and learning: My own working definitions of these terms [these are not robust, dictionary definitions, but just my own way of putting each term], which I often discuss here and with clients are: Performance – something measurable and observable to achieve an [...]
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We released our first white paper, on Social Learning, at the Collaborative Enterprise last week. For me, the essence of social learning is that as our work becomes more complex, we need faster feedback loops to stay on top of it. Courses, with their long development cycle, are inadequate to meet the learning and performance [...]
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Peter Senge at CSTD I was offline for much of the week but I did manage to live-tweet Peter Senge’s presentation at the CSTD conference. Instead of my standard mix of Friday’s Finds, here is a special summation of a fascinating presentation. With no notes, no PowerPoint and one transparency on an overhead projector, Peter [...]
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Networked people and technology are showing that markets really are conversations while collaboration in the workplace is becoming critical for business success. Today, Frédéric Domon and I launched Entreprise Collaborative, a cross-cultural idea laboratory to exchange perspectives with experts and practitioners. Here we will connect social learning and the networked enterprise to develop more resilient [...]
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The latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. Before the 20th Century, training per se did not exist outside the special needs of the church and the military. Now the training department may be at the end of its life cycle. Join us for a brief look back at the pre-training [...]
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These are my notes and links for the Trading Post session I will be doing this afternoon at the CSTD Conference in Toronto. Are training departments still necessary? Leveraging social networking, informal learning and e-learning are just a few ways to manage learning and training in the 21st century. Are traditional courses the best way [...]
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The agenda has been set for LearnTrends 2009 (17-19 Nov 2009) and it looks extremely interesting. I will be giving a session on personal knowledge management and participating in a discussion with my colleagues at the re-branded Internet Time Alliance. The main theme is convergence and topics include: Reinventing organizational learning Building a social learning [...]
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This week’s finds on Twitter are all dedicated to education: Testing: Mark Federman: standardized curriculum and testing contribute to the deterioration of public education. How grades replaced the teacher’s name: William Farish: The Worlds Most Famous Lazy Teacher. via @nwinton [the story by the student at the end of this article is worth a read] [...]
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