Social Business is one that embraces and cultivates a spirit of collaboration and community throughout its organization—both internally and externally.”. Supporting self-organized communities of practice, and developing new community skills of practice, is a key area of work. Stage 5, however, is quite different. Although automation). MORE >>

He writes: “I thought I had made a sound business case for investing more in informal learning, but few organizations changed their ways. They squandered the opportunity to increase their effectiveness by becoming networked learning organizations.” They acted as if the natural way of informal learning didn’t exist. MORE >>

4 – Think “ lite design” not “instructional design” – for organized activities. But in order to support the full SWL Continuum, there are 5 points to take on board. We need to remember, that (social) learning doesn’t just take place in a training room, but anywhere where people congregate. MORE >>

But let’s be clear, even when newer social and informal approaches are added to this old model that let you learn things a little differently, if your learning experience has in any way been organized (and/or managed) by someone else , this is still “old fashioned” learning. So what is “new fashioned” learning?  So, keep tuned!  MORE >>

think there are a number of additional factors involved which are not that clear in that diagram – and that is how the future is about moving on from a focus on organizing others’ learning by “ packaging ” up lots of content, delivering it to them “on a plate”, and then managing access to it all. Social learning MORE >>