Jay Cross

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (4)

Jay Cross

We distribute information through podcasts, blogs, or videos. ? It’s easy to contribute to a blog or wiki. ? As one pundit put it, “The ROI of social networking is being in business a few years from now.”. has taught hundreds of millions of people about social networking. You can’t live without it.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Social networks have become the fabric of the high tech industry. They gain privacy by controlling the social situation. A girl is horrified when her mom joins Facebook. My father has joined Facebook. The son replies “Welcome to Facebook.”. People go to those institutions for social networking.

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Everything’s Coming Up Networks (except learning)

Jay Cross

Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. ” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. ” Yesterday IBM presented a compelling case for social business excellence at the Enterprise 2.0 Facebook-itus.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development.

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The new workplace

Jay Cross

People trying to figure everything out all out by themselves are whizzing their way to overload and breakdown; collective wisdom and social filters are the only way to keep up. Companies are connecting people with social network technology. Today most of us believe the knowledge resides in networks. has become mainstream.

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Social maps

Jay Cross

Curiously, people who read Internet Time Blog are distributed differently: However, this is an aberration. In the last week, my blog’s had thousands of visits from Indonesia. Probably this pattern (for my closed blog on Informal Learning) is more representative. I can’t figure out my LinkedIn stats.

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80+%

Jay Cross

Note that the studies that came up with the 80% were conducted before we had social networks or Google or YouTube or Facebook or ubiquitous email or blogs or smart phones. This is of course an average; the value depends on the context and the individual learner.