Jay Cross

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Snake Oil 2.0: Lipstick on a pig

Jay Cross

Several large LMS companies added “informal learning&# to their sales shticks this week. have huge user communities and encompass social learning activities such as employee on-boarding, internal collaboration and expertise location. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Your company will install an in-house social network. Imagine that a Senior Executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence.

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Working smarter

Jay Cross

My must-reads include David Snowden on complexity, George Siemens on network learning, Jonah Lehrer on neuroscience, Steven Denning on management practice, Nancy White on building communities, Dan Pontefract on collaborative culture, and Ross Dawson on living networks. Example: sharepoint. Example: Andy McAfee. Example: collaboration.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Schultz and Leonard discuss how Premier achieves its mission, “to analyze and share knowledge nationwide to improve the health of communities,” by sharing clinical knowledge and experience across 1,700 not-for-profit member hospitals and health services experts. to their existing knowledge management and collaboration initiatives.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

How to build companies that matter - OReilly Radar , March 20, 2009. Tom Vander Wall Nails My Sharepoint Experience - Full Circle , March 23, 2009. Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade - Fast Company , January 14, 2009. Communities of Practice , March 13, 2009. The Community Manager , March 9, 2009. KM Tweeters!

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Go straight to the finish line

Jay Cross

Instead, learning is built into each project though a unique L&D workshop engagement model: Content is produced by experts on the project (facilitated by a learning consultant), published on the project SharePoint server, and the delivery medium decided by whether the content is conceptual or skills-focused.&#. Is this good news or bad?

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Is Enterprise 2.0 a crock?

Jay Cross

conference , “the event that will make your company more agile.&#. The Google Wave Federation Protocol is evolving as an open source project, and as the community and technology grows, here are the guiding principles: Wave is an open network: anyone should be able to become a wave provider and interoperate with the public network.