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Top Ten Tools

Jay Cross

Among other things, the Center maintains a list of the Top 100 Tools for Learning. Two years back, the most popular tools were Firefox, Delicious, Google Search, Skype, and PowerPoint. Currently, the top tools are Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Google Docs, and SlideShare. Tags: Tools. It’s a fantastic resource.

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Embedding social learning into texts and enterprise software

Jay Cross

Joe told me the PLATO system had a key which enabled you to page the author of the material you were working with. The video reminded my of an article Tony, Eilif Trondsen, and I wrote for eLearn magazine, Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning. Wisdom of the Ages. Joe sent me the URL. Learning in a Virtual World.

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Automagically discover best content every day

Jay Cross

In a buzz session at DevLearn this year, I described how Working Smarter Daily uses social signals to choose and display a fresh selection of relevant articles every morning. It’s also a dynamite research tool; you can search articles by topic, author, and/or timeframe. What’s Under the Hood.

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Jay Cross

It’s called collaboration software, and you should be using it. If this article had appeared in Forbes just one day earlier, I would have thought it was a crafty April Fool’s joke. A recent study of 600 resellers revealed a “high demand&# for a collaboration-software program called SharePoint.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

That led me to an article Harold and I had written on the demise of the training department. My feelings on this haven’t changed much but the link to the original article has gone dark, so I’m going to reproduce it here. RESPOND: Support the work; Connect people; Share experiences; Develop tools.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

From central authority to decentralization. Here’s a mid-2003 article from an internal newsletter from Deloitte: Social Software: Get Affiliated. Social Software: Get Affiliated. Want to understand the emerging world of social software? What is social software? To everything there is a season.

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50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (2)

Jay Cross

Increase decision-making authority. With a philosophy centered on the 70-20-10 framework, Blended supports clients in implementing a simple and powerful architecture supported by best-practice tools and resources to increase engagement, improve productivity, efficiency and performance. About the author. Increase span of control.