TweetEvery Friday I review what I’ve noted on Twitter and post a wrap-up of what caught my eye. I do this as a reflective thinking process and also in order to take some of what I’ve learned and put it on a platform I can control, my blog. I call it Friday’s Finds and here [...]
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TweetThis cartoon, by Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid, pretty well sums up my last few years. The Internet has allowed me to self-publish at will and get connected to a growing network of people, several of whom I have had opportunities to collaborate with. There are no more hierarchies between creation and collaboration. We live in a [...]
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TweetMore of my online sense-making is in connecting to people, not accessing information sources. For instance, I read a few journals but I have dropped several, knowing that other people in my network will find the interesting articles and let me know. I used to read many of the technology blogs, like TechCrunch and Read/Write [...]
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TweetHere are some of the insights and observations that were shared on Twitter this past week. “The challenge of the coming century is to change the value system of society. ~ Vaclav Havel” via @BillMcKibben “Intellectual property is an oxymoron. Ideas can’t be owned. Instead, governments grant exclusive licenses to them.” ~ @JohnRobb “Mechanization best [...]
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TweetMy blog functions as my outboard brain, a place to get half-baked ideas out in the open and work on them in public. It’s also a repository of thoughts and notes I use in my daily work. I often refer to a blog post instead of writing the same email a dozen times. However, it [...]
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TweetInstead of comments, many people are using other media to indicate what they think about a web page or blog post, as Doc Searls discusses in Comments vs. Likes, Tweets, Shares and +1s. The online conversation keeps moving and in some cases it’s no longer a conversation, just a signal, like a nod or wink. [...]
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TweetHere are some of the thoughts and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. @johnrobb – “If you aren’t inventing the future and taking your lumps for doing it today, you are going to be steamrolled by it later.” @webestime – “Simple rules lead to complex behavior. Complicated rules lead to stupid behavior” [...]
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TweetCurtis Ogden at The Interaction Institute for Social Change provides a very good summary of the differences between network-centric and hierarchy-centric thinking, called Network Thinking: Adaptability instead of control Emergence instead of predictability Resilience and redundancy instead of rock stardom Contributions before credentials Diversity and divergence One major challenge in helping organizations improve collaboration and [...]
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TweetThe learning and development field has a lot of good research on how to support workplace performance. Tom Gram has some excellent posts and resources that discuss performance by design. His most recent post, Everyday Experience is Not Enough, summarizes what it takes to support workplace learning. It’s definitely worth reading and following the links [...]
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TweetHere are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. @ffunch – “What we call “thinking” is mostly an illusion and a pretense. We really don’t. You pay attention to something and relevant thoughts appear.” @IntrepidTeacher – “Best advice I was ever given. “Let your network filter you. You [...]
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