Jay Cross

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Personal Knowledge Management

Jay Cross

To the right of the clocks are a Google search of all my sites and an Amazon search box; I use these incessantly. No more searching all over for a common icon. I set the foundations of my approach before we had tags, billions of choices, and responsive search engines. You’ll find some pages that are private.).

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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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Impact, a new journal on workplace eLearning

Jay Cross

I’ve read a little over half of the 14 articles. Two articles on literature searches puzzled me. Here’s the rub: both articles were looking in the wrong places. The inaugural issue of Impact, the Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning just appeared on the web.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Bookmarks – to facilitate searching for links to information, discovering what sources other people are following, tracking down experts. Search - for locating needles in haystacks. Note: This is the version of the article I submitted to CLO under the title H0w Will You Take Advantage of Your In-House Social Network?

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Top Ten Tools

Jay Cross

Two years back, the most popular tools were Firefox, Delicious, Google Search, Skype, and PowerPoint. Collaboration and sharing are edging out searching and authoring. Google Search. Library , with thousands of links to articles, videos and presentations on learning technology. It’s a fantastic resource.

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Seeing through the crystal ball

Jay Cross

From an article I wrote in January 2007 : Microsoft hates losing business to upstart Google, first in search, then in advertising, and now threatening the Office monopoly. To try to make up for lost ground, Microsoft will buy Yahoo! I guess I’ll have to wait for Wal*Mart to acquire Amazon. More papers and predictions

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Strength of weak knowledge sources

Jay Cross

Searching for something edgy, I arrive at John Hagel’s site. John’s blogroll was to the left of the article I was reading. Why not set up a custom Google Search on these blogs? Here’s the custom search page. If this proves useful, I’ll set up custom searches for other topics in the un-book.