Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2009

Yesterday I spent the day at Cisco talking with old friends and new about what Fast Company recently described as an “unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it’s calling a ‘ human network effect ’ both on and off the Cisco campus.” Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, Every company needs collaboration spaces.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008

And before you know it, they will graduate and become employees of our companies. Back to those Twittering, Facebooking, always-on college students. They live in the fast lane, skittering across the top of important issues without ever getting to the heart of the matter.

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Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

How to build companies that matter - OReilly Radar , March 20, 2009. Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden - OReilly Radar , March 4, 2009. Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade - Fast Company , January 14, 2009. The Smart Growth Manifesto - HarvardBusiness.org , January 30, 2009. KM Tweeters!

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Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2009

Some astute companies are exploring how a social learning community can remove barriers separating customer and corporation. Facebook /Jay Cross. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. It’s all about learning conversations. Linkedin /jaycross.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

The great news is that social and informal learning don’t require new systems because learning can take place on the same “platform” as the existing social network, if a company already has one. Forbes named Salesforce.com the world’s most innovative company. Salesforce.com’s social network application was inspired by Facebook.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Make it easy for me to connect with friends, like Facebook. Keep me in touch with colleagues and associates in other companies, as on LinkedIn. Give me single sign-on, like using my Facebook profile to access multiple applications. Leverage “the wisdom of crowds,” as when I pose a question to my followers on Twitter or Facebook.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company say collaboration and collective intelligence are the engines of innovation. McKinsey & Company reports that implementing social business creates: Improved business performance (profit, productivity, margins, etc). They learn more in the coffeeroom that in the classroom.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

Picture a digital curator in your company. In a minute I’ll give you the story of a company that saved over fifty million dollars with a low-budget curation program. and gets reposted to my Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter feeds. Several companies offer inexpensive or free curation tools. select for the collection.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

How work’s changing – and what it means for 21st century skills THE SMART WORK COMPANY | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2014. Towards the Social Business School THE SMART WORK COMPANY | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2014. Facebook provides more this-like-that instead of this-oh-that! MORE >> 106 Tweets.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2008

Once You’re Lucky describes the re-incarnation of the web in Silicon Valley through the inside stories of the entrepreneurs behind PayPal, LinkedIn, Digg, Six Apart, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, and others. Today’s successes are social networks built for one’s friends that just happened to prove viable as companies.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 28, 2012

After Facebook fails. Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy , a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. 7 reasons why Facebook is front runner in social media learning DONALD CLARK PLAN B | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012. Once again the list is dominated by free online social tools. Top Tools 2012.

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Jay Cross

JULY 17, 2012

Training departments are no more at fault than bankrupt companies like Blockbuster Video, Borders, Silicon Graphics, Nortel Networks, Circuit City, Bethlehem Steel, Smith Corona, Polaroid, Wang Labs, or Underwood Typewriters. After the war, big corporations replaced small companies. Collaborative Infrastructure 17. What’s the hurry?

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