I wouldn’t hesitate to contact some of the Corporate collaboration platform players (Saba, SkillSoft, Jive, Liferay, Atlassian, Microsoft, etc.) Dear Mr. Machado, Your story is heart-warming. Thanks so much for taking the time to write the email, sharing your story, and posing your question about a ‘connected learning’ environment. In the spirit of collaboration , I’ve taken the liberty of responding to your request via this blog posting versus another email, but have kept you anonymous. MORE

Atlassian is a great example. I am at The Future of Workplace Communications webcast, which is an hour-long discussion broadcast as live video as part of Viocorp's Future Forum series. Archived event available soon). The four panellists are Oscar Trimboli, head of the Information Workers group at Microsoft, Nicky Wakefield who runs the Human Capital practice of Deloitte Australia, Phil Cronin, General Manager of Intel Australia, and myself. MORE

The leaders in this space - Slack , say, or Atlassian - are based around the idea that groups are self-organizing, that each person defines their own contribution, and that the purpose of the software is to help with communication rather than coordination, to share rather than to direct. When I wrote The Future of Online Learning in 1998, I took into account three major sets of factors. The first was the obvious basis in technology. MORE

“A cool infographic from @atlassian that shows being productive at work is harder than it seems”, via @DanielPink – email is culprit #1. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. GeorgeMonbiot: “ The “self-made man” fallacy is essentially psychopathic: denies the role of and need for other people. MORE

Using various social signals we came up with the following as being the hot items during February 2009 via eLearning Learning. You can find a bit more on this capability in the post Hot List. Enjoy. Top Posts and other Items The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle eLearning is not the answer Multi-Generational Learning in the Workplace Here’s How I Built That PowerPoint E-Learning Template Informal learning - what is it? What Goes in the LMS? MORE

It’s also why new companies like Jive, Socialtext, Spigit, Atlassian, Yammer, and many others exist, and why established enterprise software vendors including Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, Novell, IBM, are making deep changes to their products (disclosures at end of post). MORE

which is a typical tweet saying "Yes I totally agree with you, Ive seen it before too, and especially socalled thought leaders do it, in my opinion Second , I could have asked Sameer why he said it but Im second-guessing it has to do with the financing of Atlassian by Accel - 60 million good old-fashioned dollars The original post on that is by Techcrunch. Business or Pleasure? - why not both Home About Contact Wednesday, 14 July 2010 Attribution: a lost art? MORE

This is now the third investment Accel has made recently in Australian tech companies, rounding out its $60 million investment in Atlassian and $70+ million into OzForex. As I have written before, Australia is a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms , with the likes of Freelancer.com , 99designs , DesignCrowd , Kaggle , Ideas While You Sleep and many more resident here. MORE

After all, a report by Atlassian suggests employees attend 62 meetings per month. Several moons ago, I was asked to participate in a meeting. Nothing new there. In the US alone that works out to roughly 11 million meetings being held every single day. Some days it feels as though I’m attending most of those 11 million. Worse, however, is the fact meetings are very unproductive costing organizations an incredible $37 billion annually due to various factors. MORE

The culprit is likely your conversations - Work Life by Atlassian [link] #KM #KMers #KnowledgeManagement #ConversationalLeadership #KnowledgeCafe #ConversationalWisdom. By David Gurteen Here are some of my more popular recent tweets. Take a look, if you are not a Tweeter, you will get a good idea of how I use it by browsing the list of micro-posts. Without conversation, work stops [link] #KM #KMers #KnowledgeManagement #ConversationalLeadership #KnowledgeCafe #ConversationalWisdom. MORE

Last week I presented a session at ASTD TechKnowledge entitled eLearning 2.0 - Applications and Implications. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Applications in Learning. It was designed to be a small to medium size group discussion, but because the room was large it was very challenging to do that successfully. I discussed a bit of these issues in First Thoughts After ASTD Sessions. MORE

Created by the Australian software company Atlassian , FedEx Days give people 24 hours to work on whatever they want — so long as it’s not part of their regular jobs and provided that they show what they’ve created to their colleagues when the 24 hours elapse. But now, Atlassian says in a blog post , the name must change. It turns out that FedEx , which had absolutely no connection to its eponymous days, has asked Atlassian to choose a new name. MORE

In summary, now that the learning management system is being woven into talent management systems (or in some cases with collaboration systems), is it time for players such as Atlassian, Jive, Liferay, SocialText, etc. When I read recent news that Taleo had purchased Learn.com , to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised. and not just for my buddy Dave Wilkins ). MORE

And it joins similarly inspired efforts like Atlassian’s brilliant FedEx Days — a concept that is spreading like benevolent kudzu at companies and even schools across North America — and the 20 percent time initiatives at Google and elsewhere. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. Articles. Office Hours. Drive. A Whole New Mind. Johnny Bunko. Daniel H. MORE

An interesting approach to meetings is put forward by Atlassian in a post on running effective meetings. My introduction to organizing meetings was in the military, where different types of meetings had standard structures. The Orders Format was something any officer could recite from memory. During officer training we were shown the 1976 John Cleese film, which was updated in 1993 — Meetings, Bloody Meetings. MORE

Jen grooved on Google’s 20% time and Atlassian’s Fedex Days – and wanted to bring that sort of noncommissioned work to her department. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. Articles. Office Hours. Drive. A Whole New Mind. Johnny Bunko. Daniel H. Pink is the author of four provocative bestselling books about the changing world of work. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and their three children. More about Dan. MORE

One of the very first vendors of social collaboration tools, Atlassian, has doubled down on its vision for delivering on team-based collaboration by offering multi-modal tools that help team connect with each other and their knowledge MORE

Invented by the folks at the Australian software company Atlassian , these one-day bursts of autonomy allow people to work on anything they want (as long as it’s not part of their regular job) — provided they show what they’ve created to their colleagues 24 hours later. Atlassian dubbed these innovation jamborees FedEx Days because participants have to deliver something overnight. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. MORE