Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2010

The January 2010 Edition of Working Smarter was released today. Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud , this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 technology. The hardcopy version of Working Smarter costs $19.98. Believe me, I’m not trying to fool you with trick pricing. My publisher’s algorithm won’t let me charge $20 even.

Informal Learning 47

Informal Learning Informal Social Pattern 47

Jay Cross

JANUARY 5, 2010

Sage Road ’s Ellen Wagner describes the future of learning technology in this interview at DevLearn 09. Ellen was recently named Executive Director of WCET. Tags: The Future.

Learning Technologies 43

Learning Technologies Technology DevLearn Director 43

Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

Two of my colleagues at the Internet Time Alliance , Jane Hart and Charles Jennings just returned from speaking at the Learning Technologies conference in London. Jane & Charles. The conference program would lead you to assume that the Learning Technologies conference would be a hotbed of social and informal learning. Jane addressed how L&D is changing. “People naturally learn from each other, and as technology-supported social learning becomes main stream, what effects can we expe

Blended Learning 43

Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Social Networks Innovation 43

Jay Cross

JANUARY 8, 2010

Four members of Internet Time Alliance submitted their thoughts to eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions. Wave Crests. Google Wave is already set to become a very popular tool this year, and I think it represents the way that tools are going to evolve in the near future, that is that the social functionality found in standalone tools is going to merge and become amalgamated into more integrated “learning&# tools.

Predictions 43

Predictions eLearning Consultant Google Wave Metrics 43

Jay Cross

JANUARY 23, 2010

A friend gave my wife two $50 VISA debit cards from Walmart. Supposedly as good as cash, the cards are actually issued by General Electric Credit. When we tried to buy $95 worth of electronics at Walmart in Mountain View this afternoon, the cashier said the cards were unreadable. Had we made purchases on them? No, we had not. Well, we couldn’t use them.

Services 41

Services Customer Service License Slides 41

Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2010

In yestserday’s New York Times, Gretchen Morgenstern explained one reason Why All Earnings Are Not Equal. Corporate managers have lots of elbow room as to whether an item is an expense or an investment, and some push the limits of discretion. More puzzling to me is why businesses are not permitted to account for social capital (such as know-how, relationships, and talent) which makes up more than half of their value.

Network 41

Network Social Networks Metrics Social Network 41

Jay Cross

JANUARY 5, 2010

A t DevLearn 09 , Michael Allen gave us a peek at a new authoring system under development at Allen Interactions. (In case you didn’t know, Michael was chief architect of Authorware, the precursor to Macromedia and granddaddy of digital authoring systems.). His latest project, code-named Zebra, is a powerful, drag-and-drop authoring environment.

Authoring 41

Authoring Macromedia Authorware System 41