Learnscape Connector

January 27, 2010

Multi-tasking component of corporate Learnscapes

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An example of informal learning from Europe

January 26, 2010

Three years ago I talked with a former KPPG consultant, Harm Wegstra, at Online Educa Berlin. Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. Here’s an extract of an email Harm sent me.
Hi Jay,
As promised, I send you some details about the research I’ve done at [...]

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The Informal Learning Page

January 25, 2010

The Informal Learning Page is now home to articles, graphics, free chapters from my Informal Learning book, video, and a link to some sources of the oft-quoted 20% figure.
Here’s an overview of informal learning. It’s several years old, but with the recent interest in informal learning and squabbling about how best to define it, I [...]

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8 Dirty Words

January 24, 2010

CLO online edition
Dirty Words
by Jay Cross
Last year I led workshops in London, Madrid, San Jose, Quebec, and Berlin on how to sell social networking and informal learning to senior management. Top executives have little time so it’s important to have a one-minute elevator pitch ready for chance encounters with them. The workshops culminate with everyone [...]

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Visual Learning

January 21, 2010

Visual Journalist Eileen Clegg and I sit down at Asilomar to talk about visual learning in this five-minute video:

It amazes me that most business people are so short-sighted about the power of visual language that they’d rather bore people with the proverbial thousand words than use a picture.

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George Leonard has died at 86

January 18, 2010

GEORGE LEONARD, education visionary and president of Esalen Institute has died at his home in Mill Valley, California, on January 6th.

Excerpt from Informal Learning, Chapter 1.
George Leonard is one of my heroes. He coined the term “human potential movement.” He has studied aikido for nearly thirty years and is still inventing new moves. He is [...]

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Poor man’s way to host a six-way simulcast with Skype

January 16, 2010

At Online Educa, Berlin last December, we wanted to show collaboration among the members of Internet Time Alliance rather than just talk about it. It turned out to be the first online conferencing in Educa’s 15-year history.

We pulled in six simultaneous feeds by running Skype video conversations within a session of Adobe Connect Pro. Harold [...]

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Experimenting with Tiny Chat

January 9, 2010

TinyChat looks very cool for impromptu video chats. I joined one group of eight simultaneously on screen — with 40 logged into the text chat.

Harold Jarche and I had a conversation that went quite smoothly until my Flash player blew up. Internet Time Alliance will be torture-testing this app to see if it’s got a [...]

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People Policy at IDEO

January 5, 2010

John Foster describes human resources at IDEO during the Future of Talent Retreat at Asilomar.

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Handy free online tools

January 5, 2010

Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009.

Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist.
Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs.
Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours.
Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly.
Alltop aggregates [...]

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