TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this week. @jayshep -”Timesheets are an admission that your clients don’t trust you, and that you don’t trust your clients.” – via @jeffrey_brandt Friends To Count On: Prof Robin Dunbar on why “Bill” Gore kept his factories small & why group & brain size are [...]
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TweetThis morning I am presenting to the Council of Chief Privacy Officers in Montreal. My subject is social media in the enterprise and particularly why they are good for business. The presentation includes examples and links to social media policies. Social Media (Chief Privacy Officers) View more presentations from Harold Jarche.
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TweetMy About section includes this paragraph, written a while back and still reflective of my professional perspective: A guiding goal in much of my work is the democratization of the enterprise. Democracy is our best structure for political governance and I believe it should be the basis of our workplaces as well. As work and [...]
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TweetI started Friday’s Finds almost two years ago, “In an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit, this may be the start of regular posts on some of the things I learned this past week (weekly seems better than monthly).” This weekly activity forces me to review and reflect, good things to practice [...]
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TweetThe 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 Note: This is a re-post and update of a previous article, originally published as a White Paper [...]
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TweetIn technologies for collaboration and cooperation I looked at how the differences between structured/informal and goal/opportunity oriented activities influence the design of the work/learning environment. Work Teams need to get things done. An effective collaborative work team integrates work and learning while focused on delivering products or services. Open communications, keeping processes as simple as possible, releasing [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I found via Twitter this past week. QUOTES @barrydahl “Forget about giving the guy a fish, or teaching him how to fish, either. Teach him how to teach himself.” @euan “People can’t have authentic conversations with customers if work requires them to leave their real selves at the door” [...]
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TweetWhether we’re working or learning, how we communicate is a key part of everything we do. Some web tools hinder communication while others may enable it. Last year, in communication and working together, I looked at a communities & networks model by Lilia Efimova: One of the things I came up when playing with different ideas [...]
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TweetWhy do people do bad things? Is it because they have to? Here is Gary Stager discussing a re-enactment of the famous Milgram Experiment: One of the subjects in the television program was a 7th grade teacher who explained that she didn’t stop shocking the learner because as a teacher she had learned when a student’s complaints were [...]
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TweetSocial business offers businesses a major opportunity for redefining the nature of work and the structure of companies, freeing knowledge workers from organizational-only pressure and defining a new social contract between customers, workers, firms and their ecosystem. On a dark side, it also gives companies novel ways to enforce business-as-usual and to further exploit the [...]
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