Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about informal learning, which ends up sounding like formal learning, and this can be confusing. So I’ve been trying to reconcile these two viewpoints, and this is how I’m seeing it. Each of these sees the world differently, and we need to separate these out. They’re answers, not courses. MORE >>

My two recent Learning in the Workplace surveys showed that ( a ) people consider that informal learning is much more important, if not essential, to them than training, and ( b ) that they learn informally on a much more regular (if not continuous) basis than they learn formally.  And this is undoubtedly where the problem lies. 1 – Course hurdle. MORE >>

With The Story of Send , Google follows a single email as it travels through wires, under streets, through an ISP’s high-rise, in and out of Google’s various gear, including one of its vast data centers, and finally up a tower and out via a telco’s data system into a smartphone. It simply assumes a connection. That was in 1995. MORE >>

In the past we have talked a couple of times about the undeniable impact that social networking (for business) is having in traditional management and thought leadership by helping reshape and redefine some of their various long time existing conceptions. Long gone are the days of command and control. Or will we have to create a new one altogether? MORE >>

This is my second recent quote from Mark Fidelman , who writes in Forbes. He has a good perspective on the integration of work and learning, and how technology is only a very small part of social business. Investment in social business platforms and mobile solutions are great – we’re finally on the right path. Its employees. MORE >>