Jay Cross

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The future is people, not technology

Jay Cross

The future is people, not technology. An active community of practice is a different animal from a bottom-up knowledge management network or a corporate news channel. Digital Habitats posits the role of the community technology steward. Identifying and spreading good technology practices. More Human Than Human.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

I sensed that learning and knowledge management were converging and invited bloggers form both sides to get together at the Tidehouse to share viewpoints and guzzle beer. Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist , Center for Digital Business – MIT Sloan School of Management and Author, Enterprise 2.0.

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Working smarter

Jay Cross

Working smarter draws ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Example: collaboration. We used this technology together to create a site called Informal Learning Flow.

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LearnTrends 2009

Jay Cross

We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward. Personal Knowledge Management. The Immernet Singularity: How the Immersive Internet Will Redefine Learning and Collaboration. Breaking down walls.

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July bonanza at Working Smarter Daily

Jay Cross

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology - Internet Time Alliance , July 13, 2011.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

We call this phenomenon the new culture of learning, and it is grounded in a very simple question: What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century, where technology is constantly creating and responding to change?”

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The focus of our culture seems to swing from technology to people and back. Extreme swings toward technology and institutions were Taylor’s Scientific Management, robber barons, Business Process Reengineering, and narrowly-defined eLearning (removing all the people to make it work.) To everything there is a season.