Wirearchy may be a neologism, but I’ve found it to be a most descriptive term for discussing what happens when you connect everyone via electronic networks. To paraphrase Jon Husband:
It is generally accepted that we live and work in an increasingly ‘wired’ world.
There are emerging patterns and dynamics related to interconnected people and [...]
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Here are some of the interesting things I learned on Twitter. This week I’m featuring my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance.
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I remarked earlier in the week that “crowds don’t need wise contributors, but diverse & independent ones; it’s like evolution: simple mechanisms create complexity.”
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We learn through idle chatter, so it seems (via @shareski):
@charlesjennings
“if it’s [...]
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The folks at Scotland’s GoodPractice for leaders & managers have a white paper on How Managers Learn, with some interesting, but not surprising, results. They conducted a survey to find out more about informal learning in the workplace, inspired by Jay Cross, who has shown that “informal learning plays an important part in the learning [...]
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I came across the article From Training to Learning by Brigitte Jordan via two sources yesterday. It was written c. 1997 based on ” … a common discourse, carried on for the last several years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) and the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL).”
In a [...]
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The focus of this blog is on learning and working on the web and how work and learning are becoming one in a digitally interconnected world. I believe there is a critical need for new organizational frameworks, such as wirearchy, and a shift from learning as training & schooling to a more agile approach. Evidence [...]
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This past year, my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart changed her title to Social Learning Consultant. Why?
Whereas early e-learning was all about delivering content, primarily in the form of online courses, produced by experts and managed via learning management systems, Social Learning is about creating and sharing information and knowledge with [...]
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Our motto is that “six heads are better than one” at the Internet Time Alliance, and I have the pleasure of working with and learning from a great collaborative team, spread across eight time zones.
1. Jon Husband’s working definition of Wirearchy is “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority, based on knowledge, trust, credibility [...]
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We were discussing social learning yesterday and I think it boils down to this:
We are all inter-connected because
technology has enabled communication networks on a worldwide scale,
so that systemic changes are sensed almost immediately,
which means that reaction times and feedback loops have to be better, therefore
we need to know who to ask for advice right now,
which [...]
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After our session at Online Educa this morning (well, it was early morning for me anyway) I thought some more about one of the models I used. The Cynefin framework is a good way to explain different types of work and how training can only help in some cases: when work is simple (cause & [...]
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The first eCollab Blog Carnival (follow link for details) is set for 12 December 2009 (that’s a Saturday).
If you wish to contribute:
Before:
- On your blog, via email, twitter or through other means, announce the new carnival ( you create a short post with links, visual, hashtags and short descriptions of Ecollab),
- feel free to invite [...]
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