from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group
Informal Learning, You Tube, 10 minutes
If you somehow have not seen me telling the informal learning story, here’s a mercifully short video I just slapped up on YouTube.
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Jay,
I’d never seen this video and I LOVE it! Especially your last inspirational line – “…the web is the greatest converger of humans that we’ve ever seen.”
As you know, I too am hugely optimistic about the connecting power of the web, and think we’ve just begun to tap into its real potential for breaking down boundaries and opening up possibilities on an individual and collective level.
I had a great time last night at the first social media club in san francisco, which was run as a world cafe, and really shined as one of the first applications of a dialogic process in a techie setting I’ve ever experienced. Grounding the event within an atmosphere of shared conversation made a huge difference to the quality and depth of our interaction and subsequently to our (informal) learning, a situation you spoke so eloquently of in this video.
Thanks Jay – good to see your again (and hear your great story).
This is my ‘Soup Cube’ of your Informl concept: As if we could have the know-how of a herd of buffalo compressed so that we can easily access it when we shall be hungry …
I shall send my customers and partners to watch this episode.
I enjoyed the episode Jay. At a small company I just left, we developed internal blogs/wiki’s/etc… to harness and cultivate the informal learning already taking place. We also built a thriving forum and internal instant messaging to help (due to a 12 county spread of offices) facilitate better communication. When I say “we” I mean, myself and one other person built it all:) I look forward to reading more on your sites, and I will be ordering your informal learning book. Take care,
James