Twitter FavesSome things I learned on Twitter this past week (the first article describes what I’m trying to do here with Friday’s Finds): @cdn – Filtering is the new search. The next frontier in information management. Search is about Where. Filtering is about Who. It’s about Trust. Excellent checklist for remote workers & managers. via @dria [...]
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A framework for social learning in the enterprise The social learning revolution has only just begun. Corporations that understand the value of knowledge sharing, teamwork, informal learning and joint problem solving are investing heavily in collaboration technology and are reaping the early rewards. – Jay Cross Social learning Why is social learning important for today’s [...]
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In our second eCollab blog carnival, I asked if we could formalize the informal: Are there ways of “formalizing” some or all of this without losing out on the personal relationships we have with our friends and colleagues, those who we turn to help us solve a problem. Can we formalize the informal? Jay Cross, [...]
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Trust Agents by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith could also be called the Miss Manners Guide to Social Media. For long-time bloggers and heavy social media users there is not a lot that’s new here but it’s still an interesting read. What I really like about the book are the various recommendations on how to [...]
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I’ve been using Jing for a while to make slidecasts (audio and slides) that I post as short explanatory videos. The medium works for me because I can make a reasonably decent slide presentation with Apple’s Keynote and then I can practice the voice-over until I’m satisfied with the work. I don’t have video production [...]
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Interesting finds on twitter this past week: Tom Haskins: When we get confident in our own informal evaluation schema- we can take others’ evaluation of us with a grain of salt. Enterprise 2.0: Start broad with many conversations – then find champions to take a narrow & harder-driving approach. FastForward @juneholley: Emergence and management Yes, [...]
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Six years ago, on 19 February 2004, states of emergency were declared in Nova Scotia and PEI after a prolonged blizzard, later named White Juan, dumped as much as 95 centimetres of snow. Many roads were impassable, blocked with snow drifts of up to 4 metres. Another event in the local area received significantly less [...]
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My latest article, Informal Learning: mission critical (en français Apprentissage Informel: Mission critique ) has just been published on the Collaborative Enterprise (#eCollab) site. My interest in informal learning has grown with my experiences online. We now have a wide array of cheap and plentiful platforms for informal learning – blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, podcasts, [...]
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Tim Kastelle (a great source of knowledge on innovation) discusses how it’s better to have a good idea than a large network to fire off any old idea. Good ideas have better acceleration. This is an important innovation lesson as well. We don’t need more ideas, we need better ideas. In many ways this is [...]
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Not only is e-mail where knowledge goes to die (according to Luis Suarez) but PDF’s are where entire articles go to die. This is a re-publication of an article I wrote that was originally published in April 2006 for ADETA, but is no longer available on their website. Considering the subject matter, and my comment [...]
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