I do a lot of presentations where one of the topics is how to use LinkedIn more effectively as part of your knowledge work. And I consider knowing how to effectively use LinkedIn to be a core Work Literacy. Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals – Includes learning networks that are outside LinkedIn as well. MORE >>

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The point, however, is from the point of the view of the learner, all the resources needed are ‘to hand’  through every stage of knowledge work. It is this unleashing of the power of the network that we want to facilitate.  Networks take nurturing.  But if you build it, they may not come. What do I mean?  MORE >>

Before industrialization, work was local or industry meant cottage-industry. About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. Factories require groups of people working together. Clocks measure working hours instead of the sun. That works when the world is stable, and things remain the same over time. MORE >>

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