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 >>

Dries Buytaert [twitter: Dries ] , the founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia , is giving a Berkman lunch talk about building and sustaining online collaborations. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. History. MORE >>

Here is my pick of the resources that I shared on Twitter and in my  Pick of the Day  in May. Note, for easy reference, ALL the links in my daily Picks  are collated monthly on my  2012 Reading List. Shooting ourselves in the foot. What we find cool, others find intimidating. What we find useful, others find threatening. My blog keeps me connected. MORE >>

In discussing the activity-based learning model the other day, I realized that there had to be another layer to it. Just as a reflection by the learner on the product they produce as the outcome of an activity should be developed, there’s another way in which reflection should come into play. In fact, there may need to be several layers. MORE >>

In complex environments, weak hierarchies and strong networks  are the best organizing principle. One good example of complexity that we can try to fathom is nature itself. Networks thrive in nature. As Howard Bloom stated in a speech at Yale University: One the many lessons bacteria teach with their colonies of trillions is this. MORE >>