May – June 15 Great Ones

by Jay Cross on June 14, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow

May 1, 2010 to June 14, 2010

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

  1. 12 Things Good Bosses Believe- HarvardBusiness.org, May 28, 2010
  2. What is data science?- OReilly Radar, June 2, 2010
  3. 10 techniques to massively increase retention- Donald Clark Plan B, May 28, 2010
  4. Wikipedia – Explained By Common Craft- Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English -, May 25, 2010
  5. ID – Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?- Performance Learning Productivity, May 28, 2010
  6. How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking- HarvardBusiness.org, May 20, 2010
  7. Mobile operating systems and browsers are headed in opposite directions- OReilly Radar, May 17, 2010
  8. 12 Events That Will Change Everything, Made Interactive- Scientific American, May 21, 2010
  9. Is Steve Jobs Repeating His Past Mistakes?- stevenberlinjohnson.com, June 4, 2010
  10. 10 ways to keep courses short- Donald Clark Plan B, May 25, 2010
  11. On Twitter, Followers Don’t Equal Influence- HarvardBusiness.org, May 7, 2010
  12. Putting Online Privacy in Perspective- OReilly Radar, May 30, 2010
  13. Connectivism and Transculturality- Half an Hour, May 16, 2010
  14. Android App Aims to Allow Wiretap-Proof Cell Phone Calls- Forbes.com: News , May 25, 2010
  15. If Mark Zuckerberg invented the Web- Joho the Blog, May 15, 2010
  16. How (And When) to Motivate Yourself- HarvardBusiness.org, May 5, 2010
  17. Education 2.0: The Importance of Ownership- OReilly Radar, April 30, 2010
  18. Michelangelo’s secret message in the Sistine Chapel: A juxtaposition of God and the human brain- Scientific American, May 27, 2010
  19. iPhone App Sales, Exposed- TechCrunch, May 16, 2010
  20. Workscape evolution- Informal Learning, May 7, 2010
  21. Facebook’s Culture Problem May Be Fatal- HarvardBusiness.org, May 24, 2010
  22. My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy- OReilly Radar, May 21, 2010
  23. Reputation vs. Branding- Doc Searls Weblog, May 14, 2010
  24. Where Good Ideas Come From- stevenberlinjohnson.com, June 7, 2010
  25. Deep in thought: What is a “law of physics”, anyway?- Scientific American, June 4, 2010
  26. The Productivity Myth- HarvardBusiness.org, May 5, 2010
  27. What does Government 2.0 look like?- OReilly Radar, May 24, 2010
  28. Study: Twitter Is Not a Very Social Network- ReadWriteWeb, May 11, 2010
  29. The memory manipulators- Mind Hacks, June 2, 2010
  30. Why so many artists have lazy eyes, and other things art can teach us about the brain- Scientific American, June 4, 2010
  31. Passion and Flow- Edge Perspectives with John Hagel, June 1, 2010
  32. The Creative Office- Adaptive Path, June 9, 2010
  33. Working (and Learning?) in 90-Minute Segments- Workplace Learning Today, May 18, 2010
  34. Why bash the LMS?- Learnlets, May 10, 2010
  35. Blog – The Fundamental Limits of Privacy For Social Networks - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories, May 4, 2010
  36. Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google Maps Could Do [Lifehacker Top 10]- Lifehacker, May 1, 2010
  37. Edfutures – How to collaborate and not lead.- Dave’s Educational Blog, June 4, 2010
  38. Finding questions that Google can’t answer- edublogs, June 9, 2010
  39. What are the Key Qualities of a Great City?- Irving Wladawsky-Berger, May 20, 2010
  40. Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash- eLearning Technology, May 6, 2010
  41. Work Smart: Unconventional Cures for Meeting-itis - Fast Company, May 10, 2010
  42. Facebook, The Movie, In Theaters Soon- Lockergnome Blog Network, June 4, 2010
  43. Society is more than an aggreagation of individuals- Cognitive Edge, May 29, 2010
  44. On social media policies in the workplace- Karyn’s Erratic Journey, May 18, 2010
  45. “Data is not the plural of anecdote”. Eric Mazur talks about how to improve large group learning.- Fortnightly Mailing, May 10, 2010
  46. How good are our predictions of the next 30 years?- The Long Now Blog, May 6, 2010
  47. The Euro Bailout – Now you know it all – SELLLLLL!!!!- Robert Paterson’s Weblog, May 28, 2010
  48. Book Review: Ruth Clark’s Evidence-Based Training Methods- Learning Visions, May 27, 2010
  49. So, what is Knowledge Management?- All of us are smarter than any of us…, May 24, 2010
  50. The Creative Advantage: How Vivid Memories of the Past Help Predictions for the Future- Eide Neurolearning Blog, May 17, 2010
  51. Checking Everything Off — Except the Resistance to Change- Knowledge@Wharton, June 11, 2010
  52. The Enterprise 2.0 Conference Boston 2010: Lots To See And Do- Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog, June 8, 2010
  53. Blog Post: How do you prevent people from stealing your ideas?- Gurteen Knowledge-Log, May 20, 2010
  54. Why the Rage on the Right? Part I- Nine Shift, May 3, 2010

Other Sources

The following are the top items based on social signals.

  1. Using Twitter to deliver a collaborative keynote, May 23, 2010
  2. LMS is no longer the centre of the universe, May 4, 2010
  3. The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning, May 6, 2010

Hot Topics

Information (1697)

  1. Workscape evolution, May 7, 2010
  2. Are You Getting the Information You Need When You Need It?, May 13, 2010
  3. LMS is no longer the centre of the universe, May 4, 2010
  4. Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos, June 3, 2010

platforms (700)

  1. Identifying a collaboration platform, May 5, 2010
  2. Choosing the right social and collaboration platform, May 28, 2010
  3. Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme, May 17, 2010
  4. Data and simplicity can build the government platform, May 28, 2010

Company (2178)

  1. Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5? (Exclusive Screenshots), May 5, 2010
  2. Why Media Companies Should Become More Like Merchants, May 8, 2010
  3. Newsweek’s Decline and Why Companies Need Rivals, May 7, 2010
  4. What You Can Learn from Mission-Driven Companies, May 6, 2010

Google (1149)

  1. Google Introduces Google TV, May 20, 2010
  2. Google vs Apple: Google Doesn’t Need To Win, May 24, 2010
  3. Google Adds Semantic Search Results with Google Squared, May 12, 2010
  4. The Google Rule, May 18, 2010

future (837)

  1. Future of learning – mind boggling, May 6, 2010
  2. Are Questions The “Future Of Facebook”?, May 31, 2010
  3. The Importance of Elgg in the Future of Learning, May 6, 2010
  4. Seven Ways to Secure IT’s Future, June 2, 2010

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Richard Nantel June 15, 2010 at 5:32 am

This is a great list of resources, Jay. Thanks for compiling this.

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