I will be presenting two 1/2 day workshops on Thursday, 25 March in Miramichi, NB. The event is sponsored by Silicon East and attendance is (almost) free. There is a $10 fee to cover refreshments.
Please pass this on to people in the area who might need an introduction to social media, without any hype or [...]
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Jane Hart has an excellent resource on Case Studies for Social Media & Learning in the Workplace that she keeps up to date. I’ve looked at it many times and thought that it might be easier to see the big picture as a matrix, which I’ve created as a Google Document.
Feel free to use and [...]
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Paul makes an excellent comment to my article on social learning in the enterprise that Jon Husband kindly posted for me on the FASTForward Blog:
I see the critical aspect to social learning to be ‘diffusion’. Knowledge ‘flows’ at specific speeds, and complex, technical details have high viscosity. Some nodes are efficient at in-flow [...]
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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 press [...]
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Lilia Efimova is looking at teams, communities & networks in terms of communication forms:
One of the things I came up when playing with different ideas was to position teams, communities and networks in respect to the most prevalent forms of communication in each case (in all cases the other forms of communication [...]
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I’ve changed one word, but doesn’t it make more sense like this?
As I talk about PKM here or with this graphic and discussion, “understand” is more descriptive of the human sense-making activities than “filter” is. Perhaps I should go back and change these posts to reflect what we are actually doing – understanding as part [...]
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My Net Work Learning presentation on Slideshare has garnered a fair number of views in the past two weeks and I’m assuming there’s an interest in the themes presented. Slides alone are rather limited in getting a message across, so I’ve created a slide show with audio that covers most of the first part of [...]
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David Guillocheau at Talent[Power]Management describes what I would call human resources in a wired world [enough of this 2.0 appendage]. He discusses (in French) the various aspects of networked-enabled HR.
Recruiting: social networks; online events; serious games.
Integrating new workers: online mentoring; internal blogs.
Evaluation: online employee profiles; internal markets or currency.
Training: communities of practice; learning communities.
Internal communication: [...]
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The Social Network Business Plan: 18 strategies that will create great Wealth by David Silver
The central premise of this book is how to build “recommender networks“.
“The next great wave of online communities will focus on specific interests such as health, travel, improvement of government services, wealth, beauty, neighbourhood watches, hobbies, protecting one’s estate, and rating [...]
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Hugh Macleod at gapingvoid.com has decided that, after 10 years, he will no longer blog his cartoons:
But like a lot of the folk who have been blogging for a long time, I’ve started to feel that over the last few years, that the blogosphere has just gotten too big, noisy and anonymous. I’ve started longing [...]
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