TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Some thoughts: As we learn in digital networks, stock (content) gets smaller, while flow (conversation) gets longer – the challenge becomes how to continously weave the many bits of information and knowledge that pass by us each day. The challenge for educators [...]
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TweetI am presenting at Tlt2010 in Saskatoon this morning. Here’s the overview: The network era is blurring the lines between working, learning and playing. As we become more connected, our governing models, our business structures, and our ways to support learning are all getting more complex. Social learning is how knowledge is generated in networks [...]
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TweetI had the pleasure of meeting Jean Gaudry through a mutual friend last week and the subject turned to the life of a freelance consultant. As an executive search specialist, Jean has met many executives who have considered going independent. This is his advice: Voici le résumé des cinq critères que j’ai présentés un jour [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via twitter this past week: Think Tweets are simple, 140 character messages? Think again via @TammyGreen [interesting annotated map] With annotations, Twitter could become a platform for sharing anything, not just 140 characters of text. What will developers do with that data? We can only imagine. Perhaps [...]
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Tweet I used this chart, developed a few years ago, to explain in a simplified way the differences between Learning Interventions and Instructional Interventions. It shows that training & education (in the workplace) should concentrate on addressing a clear lack of knowledge and skills by using appropriate instructional interventions, well-established over the years. Non-instructional learning [...]
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TweetTelling people that we can “formalize informal learning” is a not so subtle way of saying, “it’s OK, you don’t have to make any fundamental changes to the way you’ve been been doing training & development for the past half century”. I asked the question in February’s eCollab Blog Carnival, with tongue very close to [...]
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TweetIn 2004 I commented on an article by Peter Levesque calling for new leadership for the information revolution. He said that communities have not been as successful as corporations in producing certain kinds of societal benefits as a result of the internet’s enabling connectivity. ”I suggest that the leaders will be found among the aggressively intelligent [...]
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Tweet Copying is an underrated business skill says Drake Bennett in Boston Globe’s The Imitation Economy. However, you have to be careful what you copy and from whom: For example, while it’s tempting to copy direct competitors, especially when they’re doing well, it’s often more helpful to look for models in far-flung fields: It’s ground [...]
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TweetWith volcanic ash grounding most flights in northern Europe, I’ve been thinking about web conferencing and distributed work. I work predominantly at a distance, using networked communications (what we used to call computer supported collaborative work), and have been doing so for over a decade. I have never met several of my clients in person [...]
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TweetFour major types of social media (SM), according to Patti Anklam are: Media SM – news, commentary & opinions Customer SM – listening to customers, responding to market needs Enterprise SM – provide the conditions for enabling knowledge & action to emerge Personal SM – learning, creating, co-creating, sharing, weaving Patti also asks, what’s the [...]
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