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Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. MORE
One is on complexity and is in the main academic papers, the other is a Chatham House rules event (so what I can say is limited) on the future of governance. He references the discovery of the Jemaah Islamiyah network in 2001 , the Asian financial crisis and SARS crisis as examples. MORE
“The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces.” PKM, or learning in networks, is a continuous process of seeking, sensing, and sharing. Building a network of colleagues is helpful in this regard. MORE
Such cultures are tacit in nature: networked, tribal and fluid. Millington does pick up on this with a reference to Schein's third layer of culture: tacit assumptions, or the deeply entrenched patterns of thought and perception that drive behaviour. MORE
All from (Sharples et al, 2014): behavioural data from online learning systems (discussion forums, activity completion, assessments) functional data extracted from registration systems and progress reports data shared by students as part of their daily social and study lives How is Data Analyzed? NMC 2011) to inform pedagogy, allocate resources and inform institutional strategy ( Rienties, Boroowa, Cross, Kubiak, Mayles, & Murphy, 2016 )." MORE
One of our companies, Future Exploration Network , recently created a detailed report for a client delving into the most important shifts shaping the next decade and beyond. Networked transport. MORE
Just about everyone agrees that we are living in an increasingly global, integrated, complex. We can measure entire ecosystems - whole supply chains, business processes, cities, healthcare networks, even natural systems like forests and rivers. Indeed, almost anything - any person, any object, any process or any service, for any organization, large or small - can become digitally aware and networked.". MORE
I use Delicious to keep track of web resources and recently passed on, via Twitter, my social bookmarks tagged with complexity. A short explanation of the Cynefin framework (and video by Shawn Callahan ), by Ton Zijlstra : Over the years I’ve seen the number of issues companies and professionals are dealing with shift more and more to the complex realm. Complexity is where predictability is absent, and only in hindsight cause and effect are clear. MORE
Social Media is one of the hallmarks of our digital age, enabling individuals and communities to create and share user-generated content. Starting about a decade ago with the rise of Web 2.0 , we have seen the explosive growth of social media technologies, - e.g., blogs, wikis and podcasts, - as well as platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube with hundreds of millions of users. MORE
The world had changed beyond their comprehension, and there was and is a reaction to that, an emphatic ''back to basics'' movement, which means ''back to the way we learned it'', even though there is and was mounting evidence that they were no longer prepared to meet a complex, dynamic and changing world with the knowledge they had. Sometimes it looks like a performance or skill, as when we perform a complex and adaptive task. It''s not simply that they are social. MORE
We deployed our enterprise social network last year, but it’s a ghost town. They’re windowless and the carpets look as though designers around the world have colluded with one another to see who can come up with the most bizarre patterns possible. MORE
Major trends involve competing complex forces interacting with each other, making it even more difficult to ascertain where things are heading. Almost a billion social-networking users have at least one foreign connection, while 2.5 MORE
These disciplines have influenced my professional work which is based on individuals taking control of their learning and professional development and actively engaging in social networks and communities of practice. Building a diverse network of colleagues is helpful in this regard. MORE
There is a similar phenomenon with social media. Posting a social bookmark to a service like Delicious does not create additional noise for your networked peers in a social network. As good social learners, sharing is not as important as knowing when to share. MORE
Over time, sophisticated applications were developed to better manage the operations and associated data of the organization, including enterprise resource planning , customer relationship management and human resources. . MORE
(This is Part Two of the series … Part One can be found over here) And on that spirit of what the real impact of Social Computing is, we are going to move onwards on to the second keynote speaker session that I would want to share with you all and talk for a bit about it. MORE
How can they most effectively learn the skills required in the complex domain? How can we prepare people to work in complex, and not highly ordered, work environments in which most problems are exceptions from which some emergent solutions can be continuously developed, learned, and shared? MORE
into an incredibly powerful social messaging and notification system of content that’s stored elsewhere, i.e. social networking, collaborative and knowledge sharing tools eventually. Regardless of the huge, and rather disruptive, impact from corporate social networking. MORE
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. MORE
Every organization today is trying to address the changing nature of work, driven by rapid technological change, and made more complex by global changes in economics, politics, and resources. Pattern sensing becomes all important. Complex environments are the new normal. MORE
Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is the process of creating and shaping those networks. tools such as social networks and e-learning platforms. MORE
As a result, much of this investment was wasted, consistent with the broader pattern of the dot com bubble. Similarly, virtual communities as economic enterprises represent a complex interweaving of social and commercial dimensions. It exhibits specific network patterns. MORE
Students have to manage their own time, find their own resources, and structure their own learning. A student who cannot navigate complex websites, search for and assess resources, or make new friends through a social network may have difficulty navigating through a cMOOC. Not everyone is a part of the network. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex. There are two types of MOOCs. MORE
Theprocess of connecting was involved and complex, requiring the use of modems andspecial software. During the development of this second generation we saw theconsolidation of computer-based software and content, and the commercializationof the network itself. Meanwhile, the world of networks began to commercialize.Commercial bulletin board services emerged, such as Prodigy, AOL, GEnie andCompuserv. You can begin to see a pattern developing here. is social software. MORE
The article provides an interesting overview of social network sites and the various roles they tend to serve, especially for kids. Here’s an early typology of social network sites that I sketched out after reading the article. MORE
A complex world with an almost incomprehensible amount of data requires a different response to sensemaking and management than what has been effective in the past (PW Anderson’s term of “more is different&# is rather appropriate). MORE
Professor Lynda Gratton at the London Business School outlines five forces in The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here , that will shape the future patterns of work. Every one of the major challenges facing us is complex. But our organizations are not designed for complexity. MORE
I have a challenging presentation ahead, one that I thinkwill make you think, I hope will make you think, and rethink just what it is that we’re up to when we take resources like this presentation, and thepictures and the words and all of that, and put them online or present them ina Connect workshop, what it is that’s happening there, what it is that we’re upto. And, they are networks. The second thing is, networks need to be open in order tofunction. MORE
One of my objectives with the current PKM Workshop [there''s still time to sign up] was to review most of my resources and work on developing new ones. Still, good experts are valuable and I use platforms like Twitter to connect to them, like Valdis Krebs on social networks. MORE
Building a network of colleagues is helpful in this regard. Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks. Sharing includes exchanging resources, ideas, and experiences with our networks as well as collaborating with our colleagues. MORE
As Peter said this is part 2 of a trilogy of talks, I gave the first one yesterday at University of Greenwich on the topic of "Open learning and open educational resources". Not getting the point that learning today is about play and socializing. Reclaimed learning is network learning. MORE
If you sit in the average conference room with, say 40, executives from both the public and private sector and enthuse them about the power, speed and, indeed, empowerment of social networking, you have all the heads nodding in seconds. There are few people out there who think this is all a flash in the pan, and fewer still who fail to recognise the real shifts in communication patterns which are occurring. Social networking slots neatly into this model. MORE
To me, the theory is and always has been ‘learning networks’. This is a play on words: it is in part a theory about using networks to support learning, and in part a theory about how networks learn. It led me to propose content syndication networks in education, and to embrace social media in education. I outlined my theory in the paper ‘Learning Networks’ in 2004 [link] and George wrote his important paper also in 2004. MORE
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 28 2008 Musings on “community management&# Part 1 Published by Nancy White at 6:33 am under Uncategorized , online facilitation photo credit: CaseyLessard Chris Brogan has a great post today on online community management – a must read if you have or are considering an online community in your business or organization. MORE
The article provides an interesting overview of social network sites and the various roles they tend to serve, especially for kids. Here’s an early typology of social network sites that I sketched out after reading the article. MORE
In 2014 he published Social Physics : How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter. But, despite the increasingly complex decisions that organizations are called upon to make, decision-making remains human-intensive and anecdotal. MORE
Many trends reflect the growing dominance of the Internet as an enabling technology, as well as a model and metaphor for commercial and social interactions,” says the report in its introduction. It’s also necessary to step up to the rising costs of social services, especially health care. MORE
An online phenomenon gathering momentum over the past two years or so, a MOOC integrates the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a ?eld eld of study, and a collection of freely accessible online resources. MORE
Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working Smarter Daily embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. MORE
The patterns of change in higher education are surprisingly similar and global. As a result, they have not developed systemic capacity to function in a digital networked age. Digital content, testing, teaching resources, teaching/learning software, etc. MORE
The Internet-based firm sees work and cognitive capability as networked communication. Creative learning is the fundamental process of socialization and being human. Work will be described as complex patterns of communicative interaction between interdependent individuals. MORE
In 2014 he published Social Physics : How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter. In modern societies, decision systems provide a leader the ability to make informed and timely decisions, supported by a complex enterprise of distributed information and communication systems that provide situational awareness. But, despite the increasingly complex decisions that organizations are called upon to make, decision-making remains human-intensive and anecdotal. MORE
The Economist’ s May 6 issue referred to data in its cover as the world’s most valuable resource. Hardware and software platforms have long raised competitive concerns in the IT industry, due to the economic power of network effects. MORE
Complexity Patterns Resources Social Network Dan Pontefract
MAY 29, 2015
We deployed our enterprise social network last year, but it’s a ghost town. They’re windowless and the carpets look as though designers around the world have colluded with one another to see who can come up with the most bizarre patterns possible.
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
How can they most effectively learn the skills required in the complex domain? How can we prepare people to work in complex, and not highly ordered, work environments in which most problems are exceptions from which some emergent solutions can be continuously developed, learned, and shared?
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Harold Jarche
APRIL 27, 2015
Professor Lynda Gratton at the London Business School outlines five forces in The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here , that will shape the future patterns of work. Every one of the major challenges facing us is complex. But our organizations are not designed for complexity.
John Hagel
OCTOBER 29, 2006
The article provides an interesting overview of social network sites and the various roles they tend to serve, especially for kids. Here’s an early typology of social network sites that I sketched out after reading the article.
John Hagel
OCTOBER 29, 2006
The article provides an interesting overview of social network sites and the various roles they tend to serve, especially for kids. Here’s an early typology of social network sites that I sketched out after reading the article.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 20, 2013
To me, the theory is and always has been ‘learning networks’. This is a play on words: it is in part a theory about using networks to support learning, and in part a theory about how networks learn. It led me to propose content syndication networks in education, and to embrace social media in education. I outlined my theory in the paper ‘Learning Networks’ in 2004 [link] and George wrote his important paper also in 2004.
Nigel Paine
AUGUST 24, 2012
If you sit in the average conference room with, say 40, executives from both the public and private sector and enthuse them about the power, speed and, indeed, empowerment of social networking, you have all the heads nodding in seconds. There are few people out there who think this is all a flash in the pan, and fewer still who fail to recognise the real shifts in communication patterns which are occurring. Social networking slots neatly into this model.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
I have a challenging presentation ahead, one that I thinkwill make you think, I hope will make you think, and rethink just what it is that we’re up to when we take resources like this presentation, and thepictures and the words and all of that, and put them online or present them ina Connect workshop, what it is that’s happening there, what it is that we’re upto. And, they are networks. The second thing is, networks need to be open in order tofunction.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 29, 2017
Major trends involve competing complex forces interacting with each other, making it even more difficult to ascertain where things are heading. Almost a billion social-networking users have at least one foreign connection, while 2.5
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MAY 22, 2017
The Economist’ s May 6 issue referred to data in its cover as the world’s most valuable resource. Hardware and software platforms have long raised competitive concerns in the IT industry, due to the economic power of network effects.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
In 2014 he published Social Physics : How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter. But, despite the increasingly complex decisions that organizations are called upon to make, decision-making remains human-intensive and anecdotal.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 9, 2015
Over time, sophisticated applications were developed to better manage the operations and associated data of the organization, including enterprise resource planning , customer relationship management and human resources. .
Nancy White
APRIL 29, 2008
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 28 2008 Musings on “community management&# Part 1 Published by Nancy White at 6:33 am under Uncategorized , online facilitation photo credit: CaseyLessard Chris Brogan has a great post today on online community management – a must read if you have or are considering an online community in your business or organization.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 12, 2013
Many trends reflect the growing dominance of the Internet as an enabling technology, as well as a model and metaphor for commercial and social interactions,” says the report in its introduction. It’s also necessary to step up to the rising costs of social services, especially health care.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
In 2014 he published Social Physics : How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter. In modern societies, decision systems provide a leader the ability to make informed and timely decisions, supported by a complex enterprise of distributed information and communication systems that provide situational awareness. But, despite the increasingly complex decisions that organizations are called upon to make, decision-making remains human-intensive and anecdotal.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Social Media is one of the hallmarks of our digital age, enabling individuals and communities to create and share user-generated content. Starting about a decade ago with the rise of Web 2.0 , we have seen the explosive growth of social media technologies, - e.g., blogs, wikis and podcasts, - as well as platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube with hundreds of millions of users.
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
Every organization today is trying to address the changing nature of work, driven by rapid technological change, and made more complex by global changes in economics, politics, and resources. Pattern sensing becomes all important. Complex environments are the new normal.
Ross Dawson
APRIL 15, 2015
One of our companies, Future Exploration Network , recently created a detailed report for a client delving into the most important shifts shaping the next decade and beyond. Networked transport.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is the process of creating and shaping those networks. tools such as social networks and e-learning platforms.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
Just about everyone agrees that we are living in an increasingly global, integrated, complex. We can measure entire ecosystems - whole supply chains, business processes, cities, healthcare networks, even natural systems like forests and rivers. Indeed, almost anything - any person, any object, any process or any service, for any organization, large or small - can become digitally aware and networked.".
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 10, 2014
Building a network of colleagues is helpful in this regard. Good curators are valued members of knowledge networks. Sharing includes exchanging resources, ideas, and experiences with our networks as well as collaborating with our colleagues.
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 2, 2013
There is a similar phenomenon with social media. Posting a social bookmark to a service like Delicious does not create additional noise for your networked peers in a social network. As good social learners, sharing is not as important as knowing when to share.
Dave Snowden
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Such cultures are tacit in nature: networked, tribal and fluid. Millington does pick up on this with a reference to Schein's third layer of culture: tacit assumptions, or the deeply entrenched patterns of thought and perception that drive behaviour.
George Siemens
JUNE 16, 2012
The patterns of change in higher education are surprisingly similar and global. As a result, they have not developed systemic capacity to function in a digital networked age. Digital content, testing, teaching resources, teaching/learning software, etc.
Harold Jarche
MARCH 1, 2017
These disciplines have influenced my professional work which is based on individuals taking control of their learning and professional development and actively engaging in social networks and communities of practice. Building a diverse network of colleagues is helpful in this regard.
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The Internet-based firm sees work and cognitive capability as networked communication. Creative learning is the fundamental process of socialization and being human. Work will be described as complex patterns of communicative interaction between interdependent individuals.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 27, 2013
“The basic unit of social business technology is personal knowledge management, not collaborative workspaces.” PKM, or learning in networks, is a continuous process of seeking, sensing, and sharing. Building a network of colleagues is helpful in this regard.
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 29, 2013
One of my objectives with the current PKM Workshop [there''s still time to sign up] was to review most of my resources and work on developing new ones. Still, good experts are valuable and I use platforms like Twitter to connect to them, like Valdis Krebs on social networks.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2012
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.
George Siemens
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
A complex world with an almost incomprehensible amount of data requires a different response to sensemaking and management than what has been effective in the past (PW Anderson’s term of “more is different&# is rather appropriate).
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
An online phenomenon gathering momentum over the past two years or so, a MOOC integrates the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a ?eld eld of study, and a collection of freely accessible online resources.
Jay Cross
JULY 30, 2011
Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working Smarter Daily embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 13, 2019
All from (Sharples et al, 2014): behavioural data from online learning systems (discussion forums, activity completion, assessments) functional data extracted from registration systems and progress reports data shared by students as part of their daily social and study lives How is Data Analyzed? NMC 2011) to inform pedagogy, allocate resources and inform institutional strategy ( Rienties, Boroowa, Cross, Kubiak, Mayles, & Murphy, 2016 )."
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JUNE 11, 2014
The world had changed beyond their comprehension, and there was and is a reaction to that, an emphatic ''back to basics'' movement, which means ''back to the way we learned it'', even though there is and was mounting evidence that they were no longer prepared to meet a complex, dynamic and changing world with the knowledge they had. Sometimes it looks like a performance or skill, as when we perform a complex and adaptive task. It''s not simply that they are social.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 25, 2011
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 24, 2014
As Peter said this is part 2 of a trilogy of talks, I gave the first one yesterday at University of Greenwich on the topic of "Open learning and open educational resources". Not getting the point that learning today is about play and socializing. Reclaimed learning is network learning.
John Hagel
APRIL 1, 2007
As a result, much of this investment was wasted, consistent with the broader pattern of the dot com bubble. Similarly, virtual communities as economic enterprises represent a complex interweaving of social and commercial dimensions. It exhibits specific network patterns.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
Students have to manage their own time, find their own resources, and structure their own learning. A student who cannot navigate complex websites, search for and assess resources, or make new friends through a social network may have difficulty navigating through a cMOOC. Not everyone is a part of the network. Constructivist principles acknowledge that real-life learning is messy and complex. There are two types of MOOCs.
Luis Suarez
AUGUST 5, 2012
(This is Part Two of the series … Part One can be found over here) And on that spirit of what the real impact of Social Computing is, we are going to move onwards on to the second keynote speaker session that I would want to share with you all and talk for a bit about it.
Dave Snowden
JULY 18, 2013
One is on complexity and is in the main academic papers, the other is a Chatham House rules event (so what I can say is limited) on the future of governance. He references the discovery of the Jemaah Islamiyah network in 2001 , the Asian financial crisis and SARS crisis as examples.
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 6, 2012
into an incredibly powerful social messaging and notification system of content that’s stored elsewhere, i.e. social networking, collaborative and knowledge sharing tools eventually. Regardless of the huge, and rather disruptive, impact from corporate social networking.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Theprocess of connecting was involved and complex, requiring the use of modems andspecial software. During the development of this second generation we saw theconsolidation of computer-based software and content, and the commercializationof the network itself. Meanwhile, the world of networks began to commercialize.Commercial bulletin board services emerged, such as Prodigy, AOL, GEnie andCompuserv. You can begin to see a pattern developing here. is social software.
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