Harold Jarche

Fred Cavazza raises an interesting point on the difference between social and community platforms. “Community” platforms allow members to fully engage in conversations, while “Social” platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, are more passive. In the comments, Fred says that blogs are definitely social, as they allow authors to block and filter comments.

Graphic by Fred [...]

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Sessions start tomorrow (Monday):
Come to Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 if you want to:

participate in a stridently unaffiliated event (no Platinum sponsors here)
discuss things you don’t find at commercial conferences (we’re indie)
take part in an event that’s 100% free (because the web scales)
join sessions  anywhere with net access (this is entirely online)
track emerging opportunities [...]

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The Work Literacy online learning event is over and many of the participants are now at DevLearn08 and I might surmise that they’re connecting with some folks they met during the course.
Our learning community event spanned six weeks and had 766 registered users at the end. When Michele, Tony and I initially discussed the program, [...]

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Derek Hatchard is organising a regional Blogger/Podcaster Dinner:
What: Casual get-together for bloggers and podcasters
When: Friday November 21, 6:45pm
Where: Joey’s Pizza and Pasta, 16 York St., Sackville, NB
Who: Anyone who produces content for a blog or podcast (audio or video)
Why: Just cuz
No presentations, no sponsors, just good food and conversation.
RSVP on Derek’s blog post or e-mail/DM [...]

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Last week I wrote about The Training Department in the 21st Century, part of a presentation I will be giving in Toronto on Thursday. This new model that I propose, which has its roots in knowledge management and wirearchy, is an attempt to take the theory and make some practical recommendations for those who have [...]

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Michele Martin, in looking at our Work Literacy online course, concludes that Online Negative Behavior is a Product of Culture:
This is the conclusion I’m drawing from using social media for learning. If people have negative experiences with using social media in their organizations–if people are behaving unprofessionally or inappropriately–I think that there’s something a lot [...]

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There are some ideas that capture our imagination and provide us with a way forward or a framework for further action or study. For me personal knowledge management (PKM) and wirearchy are two such ideas. These are not my ideas and even though I may not cite the original sources in all cases that I [...]

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Jay Cross has often discussed the return on investment (ROI) on learning and knows that you can’t properly measure much learning anyway, at least not to a direct cause-effect relationship and then to some monetary calculation:
“You can’t manage what you don’t measure” is nonsense. The vast majority of what senior executives manage is immeasurable. They [...]

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Last week on Work Literacy the topic was about social networks for learning. Tony Karrer wrote a good summary of things that were noted, shared and learned. A number of people wrote that Linked-In was for professional connections while Facebook was more for social chatting. Others picked up on this and showed how Linked-In could [...]

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This coming week (#2) at Work Literacy we will be discussing social bookmarks. I wrote about the basics of social bookmarks last year in Step 1: Free Your Bookmarks, which discussed how to get your data onto the Web cloud.
I think that social bookmarks and RSS aggregators are the two basic tools for using the [...]

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