Thursday I’m off to a retreat in Texas. People are talking about what they will bring. Coffee, vino, whatever.
I think of UTAOU people as life designers, not instructional designers. Surely we can bring something beside stimulants and depressants. I’m going to bring a bag of weird stuff to try to get our motors running:
In the bag are:
carpet boules
German magnetic car toy
shark and triceratops noses
Escheresque puzzle
Hohner Auto Harp
Juggling bags
magic trick
various Continue reading
danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century.
danah spells her name in lower case, but everything else about her is upper case: Master’s in Sociable Media with Judith Donath at the MIT Media Lab, PhD at UC Berkeley School of Information advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito, fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication, fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard, work at Yahoo, Intel, Google, and now Microsoft.
danah has been Continue reading
Tuesday, December 18. 1:30 Pacific. Google Un-Hangout.
Please join our conversation about anything related to learning in organizations.
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At the appointed hour, I’ll open the Hangout.
A Hangout accommodates ten people in a video conference. First come, first served.
Have your video cam and audio ready to go.
Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence
Your company will install an in-house social network. The only question is how soon. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development.
Imagine that a Senior Executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall Continue reading
What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks
By Jay Cross | Chief Executive Officer, Internet Time Alliance
Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. Higher education institutions must capitalize on this shift.
Co-written with Chris Sessums | Director of Educational Research, Internet Time Lab
THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon.
Businesses are being Continue reading
Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations.
It’s all to0 easy to mistakenly think of formal learning as the antiquated, primitive way of doing things, something an organization shucks off as it becomes enlightened and gives its people the autonomy to work on their own. The notion of stages suggests that a corporation hops from one stage to the next, Continue reading
Second post in a series. In case you missed it, here’s the first.
PEOPLE
Who’s going to be involved?
Every Kind of Employee – Temps Included
In the Hierarchical organization, employees were the only people who received corporate training. Aside from compliance training and new product introductions, most training focused on novices – either newhires who needed orientation or workers mastering a new skill or subject.
It’s not that seasoned and elder employees weren’t learning; Continue reading
Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. In the pursuit of trying to fix what’s broken, let’s imagine what ideal corporate learning would look like if we could start over from scratch.
In the 1800s and 1900s, successful companies ran like well-oiled machines. Workers were mere cogs in those machines. The people were interchangeable parts. Companies Continue reading
Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. CEOs excitedly agree with Lew Platt’s old observation about Hewlett-Packard: “If only HP knew what HP knows, we’d be three times more productive.” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. They appreciate the incoming generation’s new approach to working without limits. Sure, there are fears of losing control, the fact that hierarchy and social networks are not Continue reading