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The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009:

1. Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles- OReilly Radar, January 11, 2009
2. 50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0 Product- Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog, January 26, 2009
3. How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It- HarvardBusiness.org, April 14, 2009
4. Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O- OReilly Radar, May 27, 2009
5. New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets- HarvardBusiness.org, June 1, 2009
6. Old Growth Media And The Future Of News- stevenberlinjohnson.com, March 14, 2009
7. Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?- OReilly Radar, May 28, 2009
8. The Smart Growth Manifesto- HarvardBusiness.org, January 30, 2009
9. Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps- OReilly Radar, March 30, 2009
10. Rapid Prototyping Tools- Adaptive Path, March 24, 2009
11. How to build companies that matter- OReilly Radar, March 20, 2009
12. Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators- HarvardBusiness.org, June 5, 2009
13. The Interview Question You Should Always Ask- HarvardBusiness.org, January 27, 2009
14. Twitter Drives Traffic, Sales: A Case Study- OReilly Radar, February 19, 2009
15. Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa- OReilly Radar, May 12, 2009
16. A User’s Guide to 21st Century Economics- HarvardBusiness.org, January 7, 2009
17. Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web- OReilly Radar, April 29, 2009
18. The Benefits of a Classical Education- OReilly Radar, June 21, 2009
19. Master the Art of Working Remotely- HarvardBusiness.org, June 16, 2009
20. Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform- OReilly Radar, June 9, 2009
21. The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory- OReilly Radar, April 6, 2009
22. The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline- HarvardBusiness.org, March 25, 2009
23. Why Ideals are the New Business Models- HarvardBusiness.org, March 13, 2009
24. Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden- OReilly Radar, March 4, 2009
25. The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All- OReilly Radar, January 6, 2009
26. Google’s Rich Snippets and the Semantic Web- OReilly Radar, May 14, 2009
27. Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow- OReilly Radar, May 10, 2009
28. Blog – How to Save Media- Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories, May 3, 2009
29. Debunking Social Media Myths- HarvardBusiness.org, June 29, 2009
30. Blogs in Education- Half an Hour, April 13, 2009
31. How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class- Digital Ethnography, January 28, 2009
32. Video: Computer Hardware in Plain English- Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English -, February 25, 2009
33. The myth of the concentration oasis- Mind Hacks, February 11, 2009
34. Five Things I Do With Every Ubuntu Installation- Lockergnome Blog Network, June 10, 2009
35. Tales of data pirates: Opting out of Verizon’s open-ended sharing- Joho the Blog, March 7, 2009
36. Et tu, KK? (aka, No, Kevin, this is not “socialism”)- Lessig Blog, May 28, 2009
37. Ken Robinson’s The Element: reincarnating creativity- edublogs, February 7, 2009
38. The Serious Need for Play- Scientific American, January 28, 2009
39. Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience- Full Circle, March 23, 2009
40. After the advertising bubble bursts- Doc Searls Weblog, March 23, 2009
41. Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet- TechCrunch, March 22, 2009
42. How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic- ReadWriteWeb, January 9, 2009
43. How to choose the right CMS for Education- Dave’s Educational Blog, January 26, 2009
44. The future of the training department- TogetherLearn, February 20, 2009
45. KM Tweeters!- Gurteen Knowledge-Log, January 2, 2009
46. Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade- Fast Company, January 14, 2009
47. Productivity in a Networked Era – Assessing ROII (Return on Investment in Interaction)- Wirearchy, June 27, 2009
48. The occult insignificance of meaningless numbers- Cognitive Edge, May 19, 2009
49. All you need to jump start civilization…- The Long Now Blog, April 14, 2009
50. fMRI of Learning Styles: Confirmation of Visual and Verbal Learners- Eide Neurolearning Blog, March 30, 2009
51. Body Language Decoded - Forbes.com: News , June 28, 2009
52. Sir Ken Robinson – The Element- elearningpost, February 25, 2009
53. eLearning is not the answer- Internet Time, February 20, 2009
54. Is this the time for a New Renaissance and Reformation?- Robert Paterson’s Weblog, April 13, 2009
55. Lecturing – stupidest profession?- Donald Clark Plan B, April 3, 2009
56. Why HR, Comms and IT should be really excited about the social web ….- The Obvious?, March 23, 2009
57. Cloud – the Emergence of a New Model of Computing- Irving Wladawsky-Berger, April 27, 2009
58. Ofsted survey – Virtual learning environments: an evaluation of their development in a sample of educational settings- Fortnightly Mailing, January 13, 2009
59. Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education [Lifehacker Top 10] - Lifehacker, March 28, 2009
60. Ten years after- Informal Learning, January 10, 2009
61. CEO: Just Say No to Layoffs- Knowledge@Wharton, February 10, 2009
62. Shift Happens Redux- Edge Perspectives with John Hagel, June 23, 2009
63. Dimensions of Social Groups- Workplace Learning Today, May 18, 2009
64. Time to Tearn?- Off Course-On Target, January 9, 2009
65. Open content attribution (or how we talk about it) is still too complicated- Abject Learning, June 24, 2009
66. Elvis has left the Forum…- All of us are smarter than any of us…, February 3, 2009
67. Twitter in Corporate Learning & Development- Live Laugh Learn Lead, May 26, 2009
68. What do we want to do?- Karyn’s Erratic Journey, May 13, 2009
69. How to Embed Flickr Slideshows in WordPress blogs- Skys Blog @ The Dalai Lama Foundation, February 7, 2009
70. Book review: iBrain- The Thinking Meat Project, January 11, 2009
71. The Law of Convenience- Sociate, January 7, 2009
72. Challenges of social media to nonprofits - Bev Trayner, May 30, 2009
73. More Learning Through Reporting: Using Reporting for Teambuilding- You Learn Something New Every Day, April 1, 2009
74. NineShift time warp: Time speeds up, slows down - Nine Shift, February 25, 2009

Top informal learning items unearthed solely with social signals:

1. An Unschooling Manifesto, April 25, 2009
2. The future of e-learning is social learning, April 25, 2009
3. People out to change the world of organizational learning | Learning Irregulars, March 15, 2009
4. Sense-making with PKM, March 12, 2009
5. The Optimal Size of Groups, March 18, 2009
6. 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009, May 19, 2009
7. What’s Next After Knowledge Management? A Scenario, April 10, 2009
8. A Guide to Social Learning, February 7, 2009
9. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 – May Update, May 24, 2009
10. The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle, February 20, 2009
11. Learning and micro-blogging, June 24, 2009
12. Using Elgg as as Social Learning platform, May 2, 2009
13. Ten Important Business Trends, May 12, 2009
14. IRIS Model, March 5, 2009
15. Friday Flashback: Chris Lott’s Information Fluency and Social Fluency, March 26, 2009
16. How to make e-learning work!, April 23, 2009
17. Internet Time Wiki / research, March 26, 2009
18. Social Network Analysis: An introduction, June 12, 2009
19. Communities of Practice, March 13, 2009
20. Drupal for Education and E-Learning, January 12, 2009
21. performance.learning.productivity, June 28, 2009
22. Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning, March 11, 2009
23. The (changed) information cycle, April 17, 2009
24. The Future of the Media: Something More Than Worthless News, May 11, 2009
25. Places to Intervene in a System (Restated for Bernanke and Geithner), March 17, 2009
26. Fooled by Randomness, Risk and Opportunity, February 18, 2009
27. eLearning Roadtrip, June 28, 2009
28. Poll Everywhere : Use Twitter in PowerPoint, May 27, 2009
29. The Community Manager, March 9, 2009
30. YouTube videos inside Slideshare , January 23, 2009

Top posts for June 2009. Twitter is a top topic:

1. New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets- HarvardBusiness.org, June 1, 2009
2. Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators- HarvardBusiness.org, June 5, 2009
3. The Benefits of a Classical Education- OReilly Radar, June 21, 2009
4. Master the Art of Working Remotely- HarvardBusiness.org, June 16, 2009
5. Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform- OReilly Radar, June 9, 2009
6. Debunking Social Media Myths- HarvardBusiness.org, June 29, 2009
7. Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy- HarvardBusiness.org, June 29, 2009
8. Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users- OReilly Radar, June 23, 2009
9. A Framework for Building Customer Experiences- HarvardBusiness.org, June 11, 2009
10. Why Non-Profits Are So Good at Social Media- HarvardBusiness.org, June 16, 2009
11. The Best Way to Change a Corporate Culture- HarvardBusiness.org, June 25, 2009
12. Five Things I Do With Every Ubuntu Installation- Lockergnome Blog Network, June 10, 2009
13. Jeff Bezos at Wired Disruptive by Design conference- OReilly Radar, June 15, 2009
14. $100 Laptop Becomes a $5 PC - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories, June 23, 2009
15. The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received- HarvardBusiness.org, June 15, 2009

Top June 2009 items identified with social signals:

1. Learning and micro-blogging, June 24, 2009
2. Social Network Analysis: An introduction, June 12, 2009
3. performance.learning.productivity, June 28, 2009
4. eLearning Roadtrip, June 28, 2009
5. Connecting ideas with communities, June 30, 2009
6. Blocks That Prevent Us From Being Who We Mean Ourselves to Be, June 21, 2009
7. The Psychology of Twitter: Doubly Addictive, June 19, 2009
8. Twitter Workshop, June 19, 2009
9. Integrating Learning and Work, June 16, 2009
10. Why group norms kill creativity, June 14, 2009
11. Google Wave: The Wikification of Conversation, June 25, 2009
12. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, June 27, 2009
13. The Edgeless University, June 27, 2009
14. Twitter Search in Plain English, June 17, 2009
15. Plagium, June 4, 2009

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