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Networks and Complexity (1)
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Complex human systems, such as organizations, communities or economies, go hand-in-hand with networks.
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The Social Network Is the Computer
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
“Human beings have always been a social species,” writes MIT professor Sinan Aral in the opening paragraph of The Hype Machine , his recently published book. “We’ve been communicating, cooperating, and coordinating with one another since we were hunting and gathering.”
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Tips to Avoid Millennials Marketing Hype
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 12, 2020
I received, in my email, a solicitation for a webinar titled 5 Tips to Engage Gen Z and Millennial eLearners in 2020 and Beyond. And, as you might imagine, it tweaked my sensibilities for the worse. My initial reaction is to provide, as a palliative, tips to avoid millennials marketing hype.
An Open Letter To The CEOs Of High Tech And Telecom Regarding COVID-19
Dan Pontefract
MARCH 11, 2020
To the CEOs of companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Oracle, AT&T, Verizon, TELUS, Rogers, Bell, BT and Telstra, I have a request. Gather your c-suite. Ask … Continue reading "An Open Letter To The CEOs Of High Tech And Telecom Regarding COVID-19".
Jane’s Personal Top 10 Tools for Learning in 2020
Jane Hart
AUGUST 11, 2020
The Top Tools for Learning 2020 (14th Annual) survey will close on Friday 21 August. Have you voted for your favourites yet? If not, you can do so by completing an online form here or else send a tweet to me, @C4LPT with your top 10 tools. I will reveal the Top 200 Tools for Learning […].
Our Top Tips for Managing from Home
Xyleme
APRIL 10, 2020
Managing from Home' Tips from Our Experts. Working from home is one thing, but what about managing from home? As a dispersed organization with a predominantly remote workforce, we know a thing or two about not only working from home, but managing from home as well.
perpetual beta 2020
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 3, 2020
For 16 years my primary sensemaking medium has been this blog. This is where half-baked thoughts get tested, changed, and recombined. They reflect my interactions on social media, experiences through professional engagements, and conversations with colleagues around the world.
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My Top Personal Learning Tools 2020
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 11, 2020
Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here's mine. I've named my list 'personal learning tools' because I think of learning as an activity that blends my own activities as a 'student' with those as a 'teacher'.
With the launch of Infinite Office Facebook is making a play for virtual reality offices
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
From today’s suite of virtual reality and augmented reality product launches by Facebook, one of the most interesting was its announcement of Infinite Office , allowing users to work on multiple screens in a virtual/ augmented reality space.
Cynefin St David’s Day 2020 (1 of n)
Dave Snowden
MARCH 1, 2020
On St David’s Day last year, I started a five-part series of posts to update the Cynefin Framework, all illustrated by pictures of the mountains of Eryri, or Snowdonia if you want to use the Saxon which derives from Snow Dun, or snow hill.
Thinking Transformation
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 11, 2020
This pandemic has led to everyone scrambling to work digitally. And it’s not really a transformation (which shouldn’t be ‘digital first’), but rather just ‘move what we do online’. And that’s understandable. Over time, however, I think we want to shift our mindset.
How To Lead Remote Employees In The Wake Of COVID-19
Dan Pontefract
MARCH 7, 2020
As of this writing, the World Health Organization (WHO) hasn’t declared COVID-19 (aka: coronavirus) a pandemic, but the likelihood grows by the hour. Whether or not it receives such a … Continue reading "How To Lead Remote Employees In The Wake Of COVID-19".
Discover2Learn
Jane Hart
MARCH 26, 2020
Activities and Resources for self-isolation and beyond Be curious – Explore – Discover new things – Have fun – Learn Use your self-isolation time to invest in your future. Reduce boredom and anxiety. Discover2Learn. Modern Workplace Learning
Free Sales Tools Reps Can’t Live Without
Xyleme
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Like the elusive Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster, free sales tools might seem like the stuff of folklore. Sure, everyone claims to have a sighting—but do they really exist? As intrepid salespeople, we wanted to investigate once and for all. What we discovered might surprise you.
zoom is not the problem — meetings are
Harold Jarche
MAY 11, 2020
When all you have is Zoom, every work-from-home office looks like an endless face-to-face video call. I have been working remotely since 2003. Video calls have been a regular part of my work and I have used pretty well every platform available.
Be the hawk
Doc Searls
DECEMBER 14, 2020
On Quora the question went, If you went from an IQ of 135+ to 100, how would it feel? Here’s how I answered :::: I went through that as a kid, and it was no fun. In Kindergarten, my IQ score was at the top of the bell curve, and they put me in the smart kid class.
Flying to Conferences
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
I just want to take a few moments to consider Bryan Alexander's comments about flying to conferences. As most readers know, I have flown to hundreds of academic conferences over the years. So I guess I would be considered a prime offender in this regard.
The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award 2020
Charles Jennings
JULY 14, 2020
The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work.
Why we must have faith in humanity, now more than ever
Trends in the Living Networks
OCTOBER 26, 2020
One of the deepest questions we can ask is: Are humans fundamentally good or bad? Of course the answer is neither and both. Yet day by day how we feel about this question fluctuates with our moods and what we observe in the world. Certainly the more we watch the news the more evil we see.
COVID-19 The Future of Society
Dave Snowden
MAY 6, 2020
This key post in our COVID series has been written by our long term partner and friend Wendy Schultz a major thought leader in the Futures Community. It describes the critical importance of starting to think about the future now, not once the crisis is over.
The State of AI Adoption - High Performers Show the Way
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
For the past few years, the McKinsey Global Institute has been conducting a yearly survey to assess the state of AI adoption. Its 2017 survey of over 3,000 AI-aware executive found that outside the technology sector, AI adoption was at an early, often experimental stage.
In Defense of Cognitive Psychology
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
A recent Donald Clark post generated an extension from Stephen Downes. I respect both of these folks as people and as intellects, but while I largely agreed with one, I had a challenge with the other. So here’s a response, in defense of cognitive psychology. The caveat is that my Ph.D.
DAN READS! LESSON #7: Command Clarity – LEAD. CARE. WIN. EXCERPT
Dan Pontefract
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Watch Dan Pontefract read an excerpt of his 4th book, LEAD. There are 9 practical yet super helpful leadership lessons from Dan’s 4th… The post DAN READS! LESSON #7: Command Clarity – LEAD. EXCERPT appeared first on Pontefract Group. leadership Lead.
Modern Workplace Learning – in a nutshell
Jane Hart
JUNE 12, 2020
Here is a short slideset (of 10 slides) explaining the rationale for Modern Workplace Learning and some of its features. You can read the first introductory section of Modern Workplace Learning 2020 for free here.
Our Top Tips for Learning from Home
Xyleme
MARCH 31, 2020
Learning from Home' Tips from Our Experts. With unprecedented numbers of people working from home for the first time due to the novel Coronavirus, we’re being bombarded by content geared toward helping people adjust to the WFH lifestyle.
a trusted space for learning
Harold Jarche
MAY 25, 2020
In 2006 I proposed that we should develop an educational system of small schools, loosely joined : With access to the Internet a one-room school would have to reach out to the rest of the world and not be wrapped in the confines of the industrial school.
On humanity, surveillance and coronavirus
Doc Searls
APRIL 14, 2020
Just learned of The Coronavirus (Safeguards) Bill 2020: Proposed protections for digital interventions and in relation to immunity certificates. This is in addition to the UK’s Coronavirus Bill 2020 , which is (as I understand it) running the show there right now.
The Future of Online Learning 2020
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 31, 2020
This is an edited text transcript from my presentation from April 27, 2020. Presentation page (audio, video, slides): [link] This talk is about change. It's about the change we see individually in our homes and in our workplaces and it's about the larger changes sweeping through society.
Its getting personal …
Dave Snowden
APRIL 13, 2020
Last year was a difficult by any standards as I have previously recounted. I entered 2020 on a pathway to recovery from various physical and mental assaults but with the frustration of waiting to be allowed to drive again.
Narrative as abductive acts of knowing
Dave Snowden
APRIL 18, 2020
This is the second post of several that I am publishing this month to update some of my original work in knowledge management and in particular the role of narrative in as a scaffold of meaning between and within individuals, community and society.
Interactive Coptic-English translation of (the gospel of) Thomas
Martijn Linssen
MARCH 19, 2020
The goals behind this translation are twofold: this is the most pure translation that can exist, and it is fully traceable: each and every word is accounted for and can be verified with one single click by everyone, as long as there is access to the Internet: that is where the full and complete online Coptic Dictionary of KELLIA is at.
Why Business Transformation Efforts Often Fail
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 12, 2020
A 2019 study found that the average digitization level across all industry sectors was only around 25% of their ultimate potential. But, t he pandemic has now made the case for accelerating the digital transformations firms and economies were forced to make to help them cope with the crisis.
Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Someone on LinkedIn asked about a way to evaluate orgs on their learning infrastructure. And I had developed a Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model as part of Revolutionize Learning & Development, but…I hadn’t presented it. At least not in full. Here I rectify that ;). (A
It’s Not The New Normal. Think Of It As The Great Reset.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 20, 2020
During the week of April 20, I hosted 40 thinkers, authors, leaders, and keynote speakers from around the world at a virtual leadership event called “Speak Aid.” ” We raised $33,000 … Continue reading "It’s Not The New Normal. Think Of It As The Great Reset.".
The 4 D’s of Learning: A quick illustrated guide to Modern Workplace Learning
Jane Hart
APRIL 28, 2020
The following is a quick illustrated guide to what you will find in my Modern Workplace Learning 2020 (MWL2020) resource. Modern Workplace Learning
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