David Weinberger

MAY 22, 2012

My friend Frank Gilbane has unearthed an issue of my old e-zine from 1998 in which I proposed that documents are dead, and in which he counter-proposed that they are not. ” I will acknowledge that there is one itsy-bitsy way in which Frank was right and I was wrong: Documents are not dead. So, we still write and read documents. The finality of the document is serving as a forcing function for getting us literally on the same page. So, no, documents live.

Google Docs 31

Google Docs Proposal Wiki RSS 31

Luis Suarez

MAY 13, 2013

Apparently, it’s not happening, because we all keep being engaged on the influx of exchanging attachments, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc. Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation.

Collaboration 53

Collaboration Microblogging Wiki Workflow 53

Ross Dawson

APRIL 17, 2012

However it struck me that in fact the vast majority of organizations represented in the audience still store most of their business documents on a hard disk somewhere. The number of documents being emailed between people inside companies today is still massive. Emailing documents back and forth is fraught with staggering problems, not least version control. The first step is moving documents into the cloud, whether it is an internal and external cloud.

Enterprise 2.0 77

Enterprise 2.0 Web 2.0 Collaboration Google Docs 77

David Weinberger

APRIL 15, 2012

“Estimates for the total number of historic documents in the city, some of them from the 13th century, range from 150,000 to five times that number,” says Pascal Fletcher, the article’s author. Brittle, written in ornate calligraphy, and ranging from scholarly treatises to old commercial invoices, the documents represent a compendium of learning on everything from law, sciences and medicine to history and politics.

Library 16

Library News 16

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

APRIL 25, 2007

Responding to this item in KairosNews wherein it is argued, regarding documentation problems, that users should "revise the existing documentation or provide new text as needed and negotiate with the project to have your changes included." The problem is not that the help documents do not exist, mostly. And therefore we cannot fix the documentation problem. But there is a lot more to simply writing some decent documentation needed to solve these problems.

Drupal 2

Drupal Module Search Open Source 2

Jane Hart

JANUARY 28, 2015

It means the time when L&D and managers no longer think they need to turn everything that moves into e-learning – classroom training, presentations, documents, etc. The “Post E-Learning Era” – what does that mean?

Social Learning 131

Social Learning Training 131

Mark Oehlert

JULY 25, 2008

I was talking to my wife the other night about how we are thinking about using a wiki at work do develop some documents. You can share documents, comment on them, send them to others, embed them but no editing and that's OK. FM 20-11 Military Diving - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: FM 20-11 Military Diving. I hope the embed code from scribd and docstoc both show up below alright.

Wiki 0

Wiki Data Network Web 2.0 0

Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

DECEMBER 19, 2016

I was thinking about working openly recently and decided to document my workflow, such as it is. As you can see I need to devise a way to make my projects and courses more transparent. There's also a PowerPoint version of the image with working links. No HTML version, sorry

Workflow 40

Workflow Project Course 40

Harold Jarche

JULY 18, 2017

Self-published works, like blogs, can contribute to official documents like white papers and brochures. Implicit and explicit information must be connected or the organizational knowledge base becomes a wasteland of useless documents. Fake news. PR hype. Content marketing. Advertorials.

Organization 46

Organization Knowledge Base Journal Knowledge Management 46

Jane Hart

JUNE 5, 2016

Documentation tools. Looking for some new ideas for tools to support your work? Here are the links to the pages in my Directory of Learning & Performance Tools , which lists over 1,000 tools in 4 main categories as shown below. Want to add or amend a tool’s details? You can do so here. What are your favourite tools for learning? Voting is now open in this year’s Top Tools for Learning survey. Please share your own. INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS. E-Learning Authoring Tools.

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Tools Social Learning Screencast Directory 111

George Siemens

MAY 21, 2012

Anyway, I’ve uploaded the pdf version of the document (the wiki is gone): Handbook of Emerging Technology for Learning In 2009 Peter Tittenberger and I wrote a handbook of emerging technologies for learning. We created a supporting website (wiki) for the book. Those fine folks at University of Manitoba (motto: we’ve never met a permanent link that we haven’t made unpermanent) have deleted the wiki and the website.

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Handbook Technology Wiki 95

Dan Pontefract

JUNE 10, 2013

You can download the entire series as a singular PDF document. During the week of June 3, I wrote five posts in five days centered on “The Leadership Tonic Scale” I defined five types of leadership styles found in organizations today: The Moronic Leader. The Ironic Leader.

Types 111

Types Organization 111

Ross Dawson

JUNE 13, 2011

But they are basically useless because there is no easy way to access and edit documents hosted on cloud servers such as Dropbox , Google Docs , or Box.net. There are three major third-party office suites: Documents To Go , QuickOffice , and Office2 HD. After spending some time with them when I first bought an iPad, I have pretty much settled on Documents To Go, occasionally using the others, for example when I want to open a Google Doc at the same time as a document on Dropbox.

Tools 79

Tools Enterprise 2.0 Trends Technology 79

Andy McAfee

MARCH 12, 2014

This line documents the labor share of GDP in the US over the post-war period — the percentage of GDP that gets paid out in compensation (wages and benefits) to workers. Two papers came out last year that examined important issues around jobs and wages. Both are in top journals.

Technology 154

Technology Skills Journal Statistics 154

Ross Dawson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

While the future of work and organizations is one of my most important themes, I haven’t had any public summary documents on the topic. I have been working with one of the world’s largest private companies, which is engaged in a strategy project looking at the future out to 2025.

Enterprise 2.0 140

Enterprise 2.0 Overview Project Strategy 140

Clark Quinn

MAY 31, 2017

Pat starts work to create a document to send to the CEO. In previous assignments there were support tools about creating documents and about marketing plans, but this time such support isn’t available. The document creation will be evaluated separately and in the context of previous documents required across this particular topic and previous ones, while the marketing plan itself will be evaluated in terms of it’s response to the context. .

Design 38

Design Productivity Products Proposal 38

Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2017

Innocently, I’d ticked the ‘desktop/documents’ syncing ( don’t ). When I did, there was a warning that said something to the effect of: “you’ll lose your desktop/documents” And, I admit, I didn’t interpret that literally (see: model, above). I did try to drag my entire documents folder from the iCloud drive to my hard drive, but it said it was making the estimate of how long, and hung on that for a day and a half.

Design 48

Design Strategy Technology Discount 48

Harold Jarche

JULY 16, 2014

I suggested creating a decision support tool that looked at both physical and functional fidelity, and integrating this into the training system documentation. Without such a documented process, decisions to purchase +$25 million simulators would continue to made on a best-guess basis.

Training 72

Training Change Technology Analysis 72

Adaptive Path

JULY 11, 2011

Current trends in product and service design are causing a baby-out-with-the-bathwater scenario, where the justified desire to deemphasize documentation has also devalued the importance of the artifacts we generate—the evidence of our processes and methods.

Productivity 81

Productivity Products Design Process 81

Nancy White

JANUARY 27, 2010

Are they focused around information such as documents or other static content? I’m wondering if you have that as a downloadable document somewhere.

Guidelines 2

Guidelines Groups Firewall Tips 2

Dion Hinchcliffe

JUNE 5, 2011

With social media features popping up inside existing enterprise applications combined with the crush of enterprise-ready social business platforms, figuring out how to situate social media on an intranet, in content/document management, and within functional verticals inside the has become a significant challenge.

Features 63

Features Strategy Content Issues 63

Dan Pontefract

DECEMBER 3, 2012

I’m a digital packrat; I collect academic studies, documents, quotes, words, sites, books, articles and emails. No major scrolling or switching documents at any time was necessary. Take that Microsoft Word. Sorry Scrivener and Pages.

Search 148

Search Tips Adoption Features 148

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Check out this awesome history of corporate education from Eileen Clegg: “ Ongoing project with IFTF and Global Learning Resources, 4 X 12 foot graphic map documenting corporate education over 120 years in historical context, leading to a forecast through 2010″ Just Jay

Education 34

Education Project Resources 34

Jane Hart

APRIL 16, 2012

3 – Just like company training, the use of company job aids and company documents are also only seen as “somewhat important” I found this quite surprising, I thought more people would value job aids, but maybe this is due to the dearth of good quality job aids available.

Training 121

Training Company Social Learning Strategy 121

Beth Kanter

JUNE 24, 2015

Format: He has organized this resource in a Google document — his slides, FAQ, and links are on one page. He has also made the document editable and invited feedback.

Tools 30

Tools FAQ Content Resources 30

Harold Jarche

APRIL 14, 2010

Sense-making – The process by which individuals (or organizations) create an understanding so that they can act in a principled and informed manner … Source-linked sensemaking – In conventional media, a document about a topic may cite a list of references.

PKM 66

PKM Informal Learning Personal Knowledge Management Knowledge Management 66

Adaptive Path

JANUARY 18, 2012

But I've found that when I talk to UX practitioners about LeanUX at conferences and events, the first thing I hear about is "zero documentation." Sure it'd be great to be rid of documentation, and zero documentation might be the hallmark of a good lean design process.

Data 74

Data Design Examples Adoption 74

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

What I suggested in the conversation was that a community should also be about documenting practice, applying that practice through action or design research, and reflecting on the outcomes and the implications for practice. It requires: places to share thoughts; ways to find partners on the documentation, experimentation, and reflection; and support to track and share the resulting changes on community practices.

Strategy 58

Strategy Collaboration Tools Research 58

Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2016

How do we know when you’re annotating a document with the underlying thinking, not just documenting your progress? So, as another outcome of the xAPI base camp a few weeks back, I was wondering about tracking not only learning , but meta-learning.

Activities 68

Activities Diagrams Technology Search 68

Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

Collaborative documents are a really valuable tool here so you’re not sending around email (though I’m doing that with one team right now, but it’s only back forth, not coordinating between multiple people, at least on my end!).

Tools 89

Tools Technology Jive SharePoint 89

Ross Dawson

JANUARY 12, 2011

See the Map and ExaTrends of the Decade for a longer timeframe view forward, as well as the original Zeitgeist document.

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Adaptive Path

JANUARY 18, 2012

But I've found that when I talk to UX practitioners about LeanUX at conferences and events, the first thing I hear about is "zero documentation." Sure it'd be great to be rid of documentation, and zero documentation might be the hallmark of a good lean design process.

Data 68

Data Design Examples Adoption 68

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

JUNE 26, 2017

Several weeks ago, an article in Quartz described the approach taken by CivicScape , a predictive-policing startup that has made its code and data open-source by publishing them in Github , as well as a variety of documents detailing how its algorithms interpret police data to foresee crimes.

Issues 64

Issues System Complexity Culture 64

Dave Snowden

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The various evils and stupidness of this system are legion, but have been well documented recently by Yiannis Gabriel for whom I have the deepest respect and have spent several fascinating hours in conversation.

Statistics 83

Statistics Survey Analysis Research 83

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

So I recently was involved in a project with Learnnovators where we designed some demo elearning (on the workplace of the future), and documented the thinking behind it. Demoing is a form of working out loud, right? The posts, published by Learning Solutions, are aggregated here.) And now there’s be a chance to see it! So, a couple of things to note. First, this is Work Out Loud Week, and you should be seeing considerable attention to working out loud (aka Show Your Work).

Strategy 73

Strategy Design eLearning Course 73

Dan Pontefract

JUNE 24, 2016

This is not a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) document or report. CSR documents tend to be reactive, and, too often, toothless. My latest book, THE PURPOSE EFFECT , has been out in the wild for about six weeks.

Metrics 87

Metrics Organization Feed Report 87

David Weinberger

AUGUST 10, 2012

The HTML standard itself was at best serviceable; it was a specification using an already-existing standard, SGML, that let you specify the elements and structure of particular document types. Anyone who wanted to could write applications for displaying hyperlinked documents.

Google Docs 55

Google Docs Content Software Trends 55

Harold Jarche

MAY 20, 2013

Teams that rely primarily on document management features favor SharePoint sites, and those teams that are more focused on the conversations lean toward Yammer groups. Sharepoint supports people who are collaborating, focused on specific objectives, and sharing the same documents.

Tools 139

Tools Yammer SharePoint Collaboration 139

Harold Jarche

AUGUST 31, 2016

At work and in school we are pretty good at creating documentation to share explicit knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge that goes into training programmes. It’s the result of interviews with subject matter experts and reviews of the field of study.

Performance Improvement 99

Performance Improvement Collaboration Training Review 99

Ross Dawson

OCTOBER 16, 2013

It allows people to branch off to create variations of documents, then request the controller of the master document to incorporate their changes. Future of government seems to be the topic of the moment.

Trends 61

Trends Technology Repository Software 61