Comments on: 2007, the year of Pull

By: Shifting from push to pull — Informal Learning Blog

Shifting from push to pull — Informal Learning Blog — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:58:48 +0000

[...] 2007, the Year of Pull [...]

By: GTD, sort of — Internet Time Blog

GTD, sort of — Internet Time Blog — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:31:52 +0000

[...] Until last week, my stash of business cards from people I once met but will never see again was more than a meter long. Now they are landfill. This feels almost as good as the day Microsoft Outlook converted two years of email into confetti. Good riddance. After all, this is the year of Pull. [...]

By: Jay Cross

Jay Cross — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:43:14 +0000

But aren’t “self-driven inquiry, network recommendations, individual foraging, deep ‘listening’, awareness and critical review” options we can select. I’ll sometimes throw myself into something just to see how I deal with the challenge. The motivation is pull. Or am I just asking to be pushed?

By: Denham

Denham — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:01:28 +0000

Pull is good up to a point, but I suspect the really useful stuff, the key discoveries will continue to come from the edges and beyond, from outside your strong links, from the periphery.

What will be key is maintaining a fine balance between self-driven inquiry, network recommendations, individual foraging, deep ‘listening’, awareness and critical review.

If we just follow ‘Digg’ scores and the red hues in Del.icio.us, we pass opportunity by.