The accelerating rate of change in business forces everyone in every organization to make a choice: learn while you work or become obsolete. An online workscape is a network tuned for learning and collaboration. Workers in a workscape learn by solving problems, coming up with fresh thinking, and collaborating with colleagues. MORE >>

Trust and networks , Gideon Rosenblatt, Alchemy of Change, 16 April 2011. The cultural imperative for a social business. This is a two part posting by Maria Ogneva, Head of Community at Yammer:  Part 1 appeared 18 April 2011, and  Part 2 on 21 April 2011. My 2011 Reading List. “Trust makes networks work. MORE >>

Panelists from Packard, Knight, Case, ZeroDivide, and MacArthur Foundations, DotOrgPower, and audience participants agreed that foundations must adapt now in order to remain strong, effective change-makers. Leveraging communications as an agent of change. Collaborating with stakeholders. Here’s a summary of the discussion. MORE >>

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog)  and Amy Sample Ward,  who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change. MORE >>

Working Smarter  draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Making collaborative work work -  Harold Jarche , March 7, 2012. March 1, 2012 to March 30, 2012. Here’s how. Not so much. MORE >>