Best of Working Smarter Daily

February 1-29, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. Here’s how we choose the crème de la crème for your enjoyment.

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

1. Social Learning: what actually is it?- Jane Hart, February 1, 2012
2. Design Interrupted: Design-time Versus Meeting-time- Adaptive Path, February 23, 2012
3. Social Media: An Interview- Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, February 23, 2012
4. Edging toward the fully licensed world- Doc Searls , February 29, 2012
5. From Social Learning to Workforce Collaboration- Jane Hart, February 23, 2012
6. Why is learning and the sharing of information so important?- Harold Jarche, February 18, 2012
7. Layers of learning- Clark Quinn, February 1, 2012
8. Who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer?- Jane Hart, February 20, 2012
9. Social Learning: Key resources from January- Jane Hart, February 6, 2012
10. It was NOPA to SOPA, but now stop ACTA from becoming a FACTA- David Weinberger, February 11, 2012
11. The Designer’s Toolbox- Jay Cross, February 27, 2012
12. What we talk about when we talk about sketching.- Adaptive Path, February 6, 2012
13. [2b2k] Linking is a public good- David Weinberger, February 26, 2012
14. E-Learning Generations- Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, February 11, 2012
15. Knowledge, Learning and Community- Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, February 27, 2012
16. Managing Collaboration- Harold Jarche, February 21, 2012
17. For personal data, use value beats sale value- Doc Searls , February 13, 2012
18. Getting to Social- Harold Jarche, February 12, 2012
19. Collaboration and community skills are the new workplace skills- Jane Hart, February 14, 2012
20. Global Mobile Awards Update- Nancy White, February 29, 2012
21. “you simply can’t train people to be social!”- Harold Jarche, February 14, 2012
22. and for the morons- Dave Snowden, February 25, 2012
23. Social media in 1940- Harold Jarche, February 13, 2012
24. Social media budget line item?- Clark Quinn, February 13, 2012
25. The Collaboration Commons Idea- Dan Pontefract, February 7, 2012
26. Apple blocking books that link to Amazon- David Weinberger, February 29, 2012
27. In Memoriam: Tim M. Martin- Ellen Wagner, February 29, 2012
28. E-Learning: Générations- Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, February 11, 2012
29. Massive open online courses as new educative practice- George Siemens, February 29, 2012
30. A mans errors are the portals of discovery- Dave Snowden, February 13, 2012
31. Everything’s Coming Up Networks (except learning)- Jay Cross, February 8, 2012
32. “Problems tend to be interdisciplinary”- Harold Jarche, February 26, 2012
33. Workforce collaboration in the network era- Harold Jarche, February 23, 2012
34. Thinking together- Harold Jarche, February 10, 2012
35. What’s hip in learning in France- Jay Cross, February 1, 2012
36. Which countries have the most Twitter users per capita?- Ross Dawson, February 7, 2012
37. Everything You Need to Know About Social Business and Enterprise 2.0 in Three Short Reports- Andy McAfee, February 2, 2012
38. When learning is the work …- Harold Jarche, February 5, 2012
39. Is management on the table?- Harold Jarche, February 26, 2012
40. Who is the game for anyway?- Dave Snowden, February 11, 2012
41. I Think I May Have Just Experienced The Future…- Luis Suarez, February 6, 2012
42. Online community ethics- Harold Jarche, February 28, 2012
43. Disruptive Educational Research Conference in India- Jay Cross, February 10, 2012
44. At the Edge of India- Clark Quinn, February 14, 2012
45. Information is the opposite of information- David Weinberger, February 15, 2012
46. A job is not the same as meaningful work- Harold Jarche, February 25, 2012
47. Enabling Innovation – Book- Harold Jarche, February 2, 2012
48. Global Mobile Awards- Nancy White, February 15, 2012
49. MOOC reflections- Clark Quinn, February 29, 2012
50. Just for the record.- Euen Semple, February 1, 2012