Today’s BOSS magazine in the Australian Financial Review includes a feature on my work. The article focuses on my thoughts on the value of predictions. MORE

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. MORE

Then it asks questions such as satisfaction level, satisfaction with particular features, are you planning to replace, primary barriers, importance of features, etc. They can be used to see how LMS vendors stack up against particular features. Update, Nov. MORE

Did you know that, according to Bersin, less than half of the L&D organizations they survey feel they are perceived by their stakeholder leadership as a strategic business partner? That''s a pretty disheartening thing to hear. MORE

The Skills Platform and Zoe Amar have created the Social Media Toolkit to aid professionals within the charity and third sectors. I’m thrilled to have contributed a chapter. There are many guides to digital and social media. From Dummies guides to video tutorials, it’s all out there. MORE

I am often asked how to support social collaboration in the workplace. As I showed in my recent blog post , there are some big differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social/collaborative business. MORE

Countries such as India , Russia , and Germany feature on the list by virtue of their high populations, but are clearly well down in global rankings in Twitter uptake. Recently web monitoring firm Semiocast published a list of the top 20 countries in number of Twitter accounts. MORE

Written by professional chefs, each lesson features up-to-date culinary tips and advice, not to mention tasty recipes. Each week-long series features 5 manageable daily lessons. Day 7 of the Countdown to Xmas continues here . Topics include basic cooking techniques, seafood, meat and vegetable preparation, wine, and more. To get started, choose a culinary topic. Each lesson is wholly independent, so feel free to jump around. CHEF2CHEF ONLINE COOKING CLASS. MORE

Most of the leading enterprise collaboration platforms have mobile clients as well as social networking features. Here''s a list of the leaders as well as a look at their mobile clients. Cloud Enterprise Software Mobility Software Enterprise 2.0 Social Enterprise MORE

Either they''re becoming full-sized suites with the kitchen sink, or they''re focusing making a few core features work better than anyone else. Two tracks seem to be emerging with today''s enterprise collaboration tools. CXO Enterprise Software IT Priorities Enterprise 2.0 Social Enterprise MORE

The latest version has a chance to go mainstream, the question is if users will find the features compelling enough to use The means to connect social networks and software applications together have existed for years but haven’t been very open or useful enough to reach critical mass. That’s been changing as OpenSocial has continued to doggedly improve and mature. MORE

The cynic in me believes this feature is simply an attempt by those at LinkedIn to accomplish their stated goal of building (and I would suggest selling) the world’s first economic graph. I don’t think the skills feature in LinkedIn is critical for success in your career. MORE

How about if there were a magical shape we could draw on top of a slide that would magnify what’s under it? So, if you were showing a slide of a screen capture, you could invoke these shapes to come and go, enlarging the elements to which you want to call attention. kthxbye.*. Yes, not an entirely appropriate use of the term, but I find it an amusing youthicism. MORE

Maybe I've not been paying attention, but in the webinar that I just finished, the tool GoToMeeting had a neat feature that showed the percentages of people who were paying attention (had the meeting visual in the foreground) vs. those who were not paying attention. MORE

Does Apple Think Multitasking Is A Bug Not A Feature? MORE

Jason Kottke reviewed an article by the philosopher Umberto Eco and summarized it as 14 features of eternal fascism. “These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. MORE

Either they''re becoming full-sized suites with the kitchen sink, or they''re focusing making a few core features work better than anyone else. Two tracks seem to be emerging with today''s enterprise collaboration tools. Collaboration MORE

But I was absolutely delighted to see that my own Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 slideset was featured in the Education category – not only in the post itself but in the supporting infographic (embedded below). I just read a blog post from Slideshare to mark the fact it has reached 10 million downloads. Impressive! MORE

This new feature of Pastiche allows your nomad and field learners to download and take courses on their tablets and complete them on their time, regardless of connectivity. Post Type: Blog post. Pastiche 2.6 is an offline player for iPad and Android tablets that tracks and reports scores from interactive courses to the LMS. MORE

I’d like to be able to jump to a date in Google Calendar by typing in a date, because paging through 15 months takes precious seconds that could otherwise be spent in scratching myself. I was hoping that typing a date into the search field would work, but it doesn’t. In fact, searching for something like “5/8/08″ gives results that seem random but undoubtedly have an inner but unhelpful logic. MORE

I wrote a little essay for Time.com on the iPad launch (and the reactions to it.) Here's the opening riff: If you time-traveled back to 1995, and asked the leading futurists of that time where our machines were soon to take us, you might well have heard just as much rhapsodizing about document-centric interfaces as that about hypertext and the World Wide Web. MORE

You are blending network features with a hierarchical structure. This Venn diagram by Oscar Berg says a lot about the nature of work and management today. MORE

Two reasons why people were smiling at the opening of the new Second Street Subway in New York this month. . First of course, the subway was opening. Second, recognition of another inevitable change in society: diversity. The artwork on the subway murals had people of different ethnic background, age and sexual preference. Kinda reflecting the reality of society in the 21st century. Another win for trains MORE

I like the feature that automatically creates images in multiple sizes. Jane Hart compiles a list every year of what people find to be their best web tools for learning. Voting closes on 27 September. Here are my top tools this year, with last year’s position shown in brackets. MORE

Convince HBR to feature me more than once. In 2014, I will … Write a better book. Find a new publisher (that believes in me). Re-read more Handy and Drucker. Be invited to speak at the Drucker Forum. Visit Europe at least three times. Reach out to those I’ve dearly missed. MORE

I’ve written a lot of stuff on the Web, and when I need to find some of it, Google is where I go. Lately, however, the going hasn’t been quite as good, because Google most of the time asks me if I want to spell my surname differently. For example, if I look up searls infrastructure , I get “Did you mean: Searles infrastructure “? I never used to get that. Now I do. The former brings up 251,000 results, by the way, while the latter brings up 11,600. MORE

"Schools aren't "letting" students pass. They're refusing to let them to fail, she and other students said." That's the great final line of a story about a school that not only allows student to redo work, but encourages it. MORE

why not both Home About Contact Friday, 14 January 2011 Enterprise microblogging: measuring true value "is relative" Yammer announced a new feature yesterday : Leaderboards Leaderboards gives users access to statistics about their network activity. Business or Pleasure? - MORE

Over on eLearning Learning , we've just launched a new version with some great new features. You can find a long list of the Featured sources on the right side. There is a lot more content that comes in as well beyond the Featured sources. MORE

Some people can describe many aspects of their local vicinity while others don’t know anything about why certain features exist. Some people seem to be naturally curious. Others work at it, while some just lack interest in learning. You can notice this when traveling. MORE

a slightly modified version with two major user interface features. Here are the latest feature updates: Finger Swipe. The first major feature we have introduced in this new version is the ability to turn pages back and forth using the finger swipe gesture. MORE

I don’t really like talking about “mistakes” when it comes to using different tools, as we all have our own ways of using them, but in this case there is one particular Twitter feature which I can see is ending up in a lot of wasted tweets! That feature is, that if you start a tweet with […]. MORE

Ngram Faceoff: Hope and fear During this quiet holiday week, we’ve decided to roll out a new feature on the Pink Blog — something we call the Ngram Faceoff. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. Speaking Engagements. Video. Articles. Office Hours. Drive. MORE

why not both Home About Contact Wednesday, 14 July 2010 The New Polymath Booktour - Amsterdam Amsterdam event 13:00 - 13:45, 21st July 2010, Capgemini, Amsterdam, Hoogoorddreef 15 Featured Speaker : Vinnie Mirchandani, author of the recently published book, The New Polymath. MORE

Recently Yammer announced new social features. My weekly Monday round-up of key social learning resources was interrupted last week by my Top 100 Tools 2011 posting , but this week we are back on track with a five more valuable articles and postings. MORE

The messaging is certainly world class and the slew of announcements this week will address many of the shortcomings or features gaps in its social software product line. Salesforce’s Marc Benioff continued his now-epic stream of social business thought leadership at this week’s Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco. MORE

Death to Features. I’ve been working with, and designing for, “features and functionality” going on 15 years. A while back I was speaking at a conference and I described the role the touchpoint played in helping make sense of a cross-channel service. MORE

This is especially true when it comes to selfish behavior; unvarnished self-interest is a learned social norm, not an unwavering feature of human behavior. How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy| Featured HBR Article. Indira Gandhi on Doing Work Versus Taking Credit For It » Secret Features of Apples Proposed New Campus. The folks as joyoftech.com had good fun imagining the "hidden features." Bob Sutton. MORE

I was asked to share the 20 ideas for small changes I suggested in the session, so here they are – together with the 6 features of how we […]. On Tuesday 17 June I ran an interactive session at the Learning Technologies Summer Forum. The session was live streamed and the recording is available here. Social learning MORE

But, is the feature a field of dreams for nonprofits? When Facebook rolled out the donate button feature in 2013 for a small group of partners, the results were mixed. This webinar will help you develop a strategic approach to leveraging this new feature. MORE

This is especially true when it comes to selfish behavior; unvarnished self-interest is a learned social norm, not an unwavering feature of human behavior. How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy| Featured HBR Article.   To my amazement, it features The No Asshole Rule , or as they call it "The No A - Rule."  Bob Sutton. About Subscribe to this blogs feed Email Me Follow Me @ work_matters. Book Me For A Speech. Brightsight Group. Search. MORE

In the last 10 years there has been a big change in the way that many people now learn – I’ve written about the 6 key features here. So what can you do to bring workplace more in line with modern day personal, independent learning? MORE

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jul 06 2008 EFQUEL Slides Featured on Slideshare Published by Nancy White at 7:54 pm under events , learning I was surprised to get an email that the slides I used at a keynote at the European Foundation for Quality in ELearning are currently featured on SlideShare’s SlideShare’s homepage. MORE