Jay Cross

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Ten years after

Jay Cross

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. For a simple blog, we went far. Two years later we launched the Learning Circuits Blog. We were web and network enthusiasts; that’s how we got here. Here’s the last (2008) Learning Circuits Blog.

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The Heinz Ketchup Case Study

Jay Cross

The brand managers and UI designers at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and other consumer web services need to learn this lesson. I’ve been on the web since the beginning, when you had to log in to Sir Tim’s NeXT machine at CERN to access the World Wide Web. I have blogged for more than a dozen years.

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Do the right thing; do not steal

Jay Cross

The web and social networks are evolving their own conventions of appropriate behavior. Most bloggers no longer feel they must blog every day. One area that noobs fail to understand is that it is not cool to “scrape&# other people’s blogs. Several automated blogs repost my work with ads alongside.

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Internet Time Blog » Web 2.0, collective intelligence, and the future of learning

Jay Cross

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The new workplace

Jay Cross

People communicate with texts, Tweets, iPhones, email, and blogs in their personal lives, and expect to be able to do so at work. People have become savvy web consumers. The web gives unprecedented free access to college courses, how-to videos, advice columns, and experts. We used to think that knowledge resided in people heads.

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Making Sense of the World

Jay Cross

Email subscriptions to research services and blogs I don’t want to miss. Blogs, via Google Reader for sifting through RSS feeds or suggestions from friends. Internet Time Blog, internettime.com, where ideas turn into posts. For me, this cycle of pull-reflect-push is my contribution to the knowledge commons that is the web.

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Personal Knowledge Management

Jay Cross

Teach a man to fish… PKM: Figuring out what’s important to you, how to find it, how to keep up with it, how to make sense of it, how to recall it when you need it anew, and how to share it with others — this is ground zero for mining the riches of the web. To the right, blogs… although the list is a little flaky.