The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it. Execution is the goal. MORE >>

And, as always, I take a broad interpretation of learning, so this holds true beyond formal learning; it applies to thinking about performer experience when you consider the tools they’ll have, and even the way that access to communities and other informal learning components will be made available in situ. MORE >>

When technology and market environments go through major changes, as is certainly the case today, previously successful business strategies will no longer work, no matter how much you try to fix them.  The book was named one of the best business books on strategy in 2011 by strategy+business magazine.  Pull , don’t just Push. MORE >>

Tony O’Driscoll kicked off the Innovations in eLearning Symposium with an entertaining and apt tour of the changes in business owing to information change, and the need to adapt. strategyMy take was that organizations have to become in a more organic relationship with their ecosystem by empowering their people to engage and act. MORE >>

What is a social media strategy for outreach?  You need information: photos, events.  Your Twitter strategy should be aligned with your Facebook strategy, so your tweets point to new information on Facebook, your Facebook account reflects your tweets, etc.  social strategyTwitter. Facebook. MORE >>