Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 19, 2009

What is April Learntrends ? Learntrends is a series of online conversations among people with an interest in improving the process of learning in corporations and government. It’s the April installment of Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation. Who may attend? Learntrends welcomes anyone interested in organizational learning. We are expecting a diverse mix of newbies, old hands, managers, practitioners, specialists and generalists.

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Jane Hart

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Six FAQs, Bob […]. This is a quick post this month (as I do my usual must-reads of the previous month). This month I am simply going to point to 5 posts that I came across last month that might make you think. All my tweeted links from September appear here.) “How

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Doc Searls

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here’s the FAQ. Just noticed Blogrunner , which looks like a mash of Technorati and Google News. The brief About: Blogrunner is a news aggregator from The New York Times that monitors articles and blog posts and tracks news stories as they develop across the Web. Below that is a link to its blog.

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Harold Jarche

APRIL 19, 2012

Mark used a wiki to capture 85 questions (and answers) in an FAQ for new-hire dentists. Any initial mistakes were corrected and now these FAQ are on a Yammer page for easy access.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You can find tips and tricks for crafting winning stories and getting out the vote in the FAQ section on the #MyGivingStory site. I am thrilled to be a judge for #MyGivingStory 2018!

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Tony Karrer

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

FAQs are a great tool, patterns applied like this is also a good tool Found this via a post on EdTechPost: Wikipatterns It provides patterns for various roles and adoption patterns. What's great beyond just finding out about Wikis is the beauty of how the information is presented - as patterns.

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Charles Jennings

JANUARY 3, 2016

One of the major strategic objectives for many HR and L&D departments in 2016 and beyond will be to extend their focus and services beyond courses and out into the workplace. There are many reasons why this objective makes good sense.

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

A list of questions : These are typically called “FAQ” or frequently asked questions and are a standard category of web site content. What I love about FAQs is that you can easily transform them in Social FAQ s by adding real questions asked by your audience.

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Andy McAfee

JANUARY 4, 2012

Some basic information is here , and a FAQ is here. Do your new year’s resolutions include changing direction in your career? Acquiring incredibly valuable new skills? Challenging yourself? Being part of a high-powered team?

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Doc Searls

MAY 12, 2018

For a full unpacking of what’s there see the Consent String and Vendor List Format: Transparency & Consent Framework on GitHub and IAB Europe’s own FAQ.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

In the meantime, a couple of ideas for where you can find other similar kinds of descriptions of eLearning interactions: Look at Articulate product - tabbed interaction, process, timeline, pyramid diagram, labeled graphic, interactive FAQ, media tour, circle diagram, guided image, FAQ and more. BJ Schone has published a nice little eBook and has an associated blog that provides some interactions that can be used in eLearning that will make the learning more fun and engaging.

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David Weinberger

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Had I not magically missed the question in the FAQ that addresses the issue, I could have saved myself 58 minutes of a Sunday morning. PDAnet rocks when you remember to reading the effing FAQ. I spent about an hour this morning trying to get PDAnet to work on my MacBookPro the way it once did. PDAnet allows you to use your mobile phone as a modem.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 24, 2015

Format: He has organized this resource in a Google document — his slides, FAQ, and links are on one page. Jeremy Caplan is the Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism and an amazing teacher.

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David Weinberger

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

For a different reading, see the the incredibly smart Peter Norvig’s election FAQ.). If when the votes are counted you feel betrayed because you were told “Your vote counts!” ” but it turns out that the election would have gone the same way even if you had stayed home, I understand. If you take “Your vote counts” as really only being true when your vote determines an outcome, then in my lifetime of voting, my vote has never counted.

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Tony Karrer

JULY 10, 2006

Web Site - Use Wiki software or similarly easy to use tool to keep an up-to-date site where you minimally have pointers to your reference materials and training materials, FAQs, list of expert practitioners, and dates/times of office hours. Update your FAQs - After each office hour, quickly make modifications to the Wiki. Ideally, you solicit expert practitioners to make updates to the web site including the FAQ. Great post by Dave Lee - The Learning Circuits Blog: We're #3!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Simple FAQ shaves 10% off customer calls and improves quality of service, saving $3,000,000 a year in salary costs alone. This month’s Big Question is one that I’m asked all the time. How do you cost-justify social learning initiatives?

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 3, 2011

Description Installation Faq Screenshots Changelog Stats. I’m simplifying and cleaning up my sites for the new year. I’m not quite finished weeding this online garden, but things are a lot more tidy than last week.

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Doc Searls

APRIL 10, 2011

This piece by Chat Catacchio points to Twitter’s Rate Limits FAQ. The first time I went to Twitter this morning, I got this: Before that, the computer had been asleep all night. I still haven’t tweeted anything this morning. There must be some meaning behind the message, but the message itself says nothing useful. When I’ve seen this before, I thought perhaps Twitter in my browser had been hitting the API too hard for updates or something.

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 6, 2012

You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: The higher education online learning gloves are now officially off.

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David Weinberger

APRIL 28, 2010

Oregon has signed a deal with Google that enables any school district to provide Google Apps for Education [ faq ] for free to its students and teachers. This includes Google Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Sites and Pages, Talk, Video, Groups, Docs, and Postini email management. Google Apps for Ed lets the school district use its own domain names rather than Google.com.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 2, 2012

Social L&D optimizes learning by making it easy for workers, novices and old hands alike, to find the information they need from FAQs and knowledge bases or from coaches, experts and peers. If you’re not plugged in and running fast at work, you’re falling behind.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 26, 2008

Learnscape architects have implemented miniature versions of the internet behind corporate firewalls that provide all of these things, from peer-rated FAQs to wizards, on-line help desks, and best practices repositories. Great post by Jay Cross that uses the history of performance support to set up the need for what Jay calls Learnscapes. I've been a long-time believer in EPSS and ePerformance.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Let me learn from YouTube, an FAQ, or linking to an expert. In his keynote presentation at Online Educa Berlin last week, Howard Rheingold emphasized co-learning. Since the teacher learns more than the student, let’s all be both teachers and students.

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David Weinberger

JUNE 14, 2011

In addition, during the course of one of the sessions (on “Explaining LOD-LAM&# ), a few of us began constructing a FAQ. I just wrote up an informal trip report in the form of “take aways&# from the LOD-LAM conference I attended a cople of weeks ago. Here is a lightly edited version. Because it was an unconference, it was too participatory to enable us to take systematic notes.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 19, 2009

Here's the FAQ. I'm not quite sure what Jay was thinking when he decided to do this, but I'm curious to see what happens. He's pulled together a 24 Hour Continuous Learning Event: Conversations about Learning in Organizations He's got folks from around the world who are going to help participate over the course of 24 hours.

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Ross Dawson

DECEMBER 14, 2011

PLEASE READ THE FAQ BEFORE APPLYING. The Australian startup scene continues to heat up. Arguably Sydney is already in the top 10 tech startup cities in the world, with activity rapidly growing through this year. The latest news is that the mentor program PushStart (which I participate in as a mentor) is today launching its planned PushStart Accelerator program. I wrote about PushStart and the earlier startup accelerator Startmate at the launch of PushStart.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

You may well be a curator already, posting items to Twitter, your blog, FAQs, or a wiki. Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery.

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Martijn Linssen

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Their average seems to be off by 100-200%, and what they define as mention or @reply must remain a mystery for a while, as their FAQ page gave me a nice 404, sent by their Apache Tomcat/6.0.32.

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Charles Jennings

AUGUST 22, 2009

Turning to collaborative and community support for learning, there's the ITIL Community Forum with its FAQs, feedback, forums and 23,000 registered users to interact with.

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Mind Hacks

AUGUST 14, 2018

ASAPbio Preprint FAQ. Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4. Before a research article is published in a journal you can make it freely available for anyone to read. You could do this on your own website, but you can also do it on a preprint server, such as psyarxiv.com , where other researchers also share their preprints, which is supported by the OSF so will be around for a while, and which allows you to find others’ research easily.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

20 minutes later) I just set up the Jaycross FAQ. Jay: Getting an answer from the Help Desk, asking Twitter friends for an answer, looking at a FAQ on a wiki. Every morning, my email is littered with very basic questions about informal learning.

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Doc Searls

AUGUST 1, 2012

” So I downloaded the app, got it rolling, clicked on “Live,” got forwarded to a page where I had to choose my provider, clicked on the Dish logo, entered my login and password, and then got this fail, over and over: I checked the NBC FAQ.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 22, 2018

Automating the FAQ function 24/7 for stakeholders with questions comments, or requests without increasing staff workloads. The Bots are Here: Leading With Our Humanity in the Age of Automation by Allison Fine and Beth Kanter.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

I just copied a rough draft of my new book, Learn For Yourself , into a free summarizer. In a few seconds, it reduced my 116-page manuscript to 10 items.

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Dan Pontefract

MAY 6, 2012

The higher education online learning gloves are now officially off. Let’s first recap the dizzying pace of change, announcements and launches that have occurred since the Fall of 2011 between Udacity, Coursera, MITx and the latest free-learning darling, edX.

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Harold Jarche

MAY 11, 2012

Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. birgittaj – “ Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

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Jane Hart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Tweet. This is the 5th in a series of postings about how L&D departments can move forward from their traditional role of creating, delivering and managing formal learning – to one that supports the wider needs of Smart Workers in the organisation.

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David Weinberger

JANUARY 12, 2009

Hal points to one company’s faq : Q: I am interested in more detailed and in-depth visit data. Hal Roberts , at the Berkman Center, blogs that he’s found that three suppliers of tools that allow those in China to circumvent the government’s restrictions on the Internet — DynaWeb FreeGate , GPass , and FirePhoenix — are selling information about the behavior of their users.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

At a bare minimum, the first ones to go down a new path could leave breadcrumbs for others to follow by recording their finding in an FAQ. Create useful, peer-ranked FAQs and knowledgebases.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The ALS IceBucket Challenge in 2014 that raised over $115 million is well known to all, but this FAQ can help refresh your memory. Prepping for our Big Room Session at IFC.

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Doc Searls

APRIL 12, 2014

FAQ on Mozilla’s Intention to Block Third-Party Cookies. In her blog post explaining the Brendan Eich resignation , Mitchell Baker , Chair of the Mozilla Foundation , writes, “We know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to ourselves.”

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Jay Cross

MAY 26, 2015

Job aids, bookmarks, FAQs, aggregation, curation. Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture.

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