Key Posts
Working Smarter Fieldbook
Personal Knowledge Management
The subject of PKM has been discussed a lot here so I’ve aggregated the more important posts in order to provide an overview and a starting point on the subject. Link to PKM
Friday’s Finds
Every 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. Link to Friday’s Finds
Articles
Social Learning for Business: Here’s an elevator pitch, in 10 sentences, for social learning, which is what really makes social business work.
Social learning, Complexity & the Enterprise: Organizations should focus on enabling practitioners to produce results by supporting learning through social networks. This paper also discusses organizations as they evolve from simplicity to complexity and how to get social learning moving in an organization.
Working Smarter through Social Learning: We need to understand complex adaptive systems and develop work structures that let us focus our efforts on learning as we work in order to continuously develop next practices (includes slide presentation).
Communities of Practice: Summary of resources.
Agility & Autonomy: Agile organizations realize they will never reach some future point where everything stabilizes and they don’t need to learn or do anything new.
Twitter and The Law of the Few: While Twitter, like blogging, is not for everyone, it can be quite useful for a certain segment of the population. This aspect of Twitter should be seriously examined by leaders and managers who want their organizations to work smarter.
Social Snake Oil: As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it. Followed by The LMS is no longer the centre of the universe.
The Future of the Training Department: (with Jay Cross) Complexity, or maybe our appreciation of it, has rendered the world unpredictable, so the orientation of learning is shifting from past (efficiency, best practice) to future (creative response, innovation).
Introduction to Social Networking: Lessons learnt from the work literacy project.
Life in Perpetual Beta: Perpetual beta is my attitude toward learning – I’ll never get to the final release and my learning will never stabilise.
Skills 2.0: (PDF) (published in T&D Magazine) Web2.0 gives learning professionals an aptitude adjustment.
Seven years and 95 Theses: Thoughts on the Cluetrain Manifesto over seven years.
Video
Concept overviews, slides & audio, under 5 minutes each (.mp4)
Introduction to the Internet Time Alliance
Other Resources
So you want to be an e-learning consultant? (published in eLearn Magazine) Updated in 2011
Workplace performance resources in the Performance Toolbox.
Top posts from jarche.com on Twitter
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