Tags: participatory cultur I've written before about some of my thoughts regarding the responsible use of social media and whether or not we can count on people do the right thing when it comes to blogs and Facebook and Twitter.  In general I tend to believe that if you can't trust your employees to behave appropriately on a social network, then you probably shouldn't be trusting them to go to meetings, answer phones or have customer contact in any way.

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Over the last several months, at the job that actually pays me, I’ve been on somewhat of a soapbox speaking, writing, blogging, yammering about the link between culture, leadership philosophy and Enterprise 2.0 The two must marry if an organization wishes to be successful in the culture of tomorrow. It can be culture forming. ...Tags: technologies. In summary, as we shift to a new decade replete with Moore’s Law in abundance, we need to recognize that yesterday’s way of leading needs to be improved but it cannot do so unless Enterprise 2.0

Chief Learning Officer magazine , Effectiveness, April 2009 by Jay Cross The Internet is so pervasive that Internet values are blowing back into real life. For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row. The Web trained me

So what has this got to do with leadership and culture? This can do so much for the organization in terms of leadership and culture, including: That’s a culture I would want to be a part of. ...Tags: Tags: Culture social networking formal informal micro-blogging social social learning twitter yamme Inside the organization, a dilemma now exists and is rapidly taking shape. Employees want to connect with one another.

Is there something cultural going on? What's your take on using audio in eLearning? For or against? Do you use audio on every slide because the client says people will think it's broken if you don't? (This This has happened to me!) We've taken this up before and many of us IDs know the strategies for using audio most effectively by now.

His research interests include the design of games and simulations, the use of games and simulations in formal learning environments, video game industry & culture, socio-cultural learning theory, performance assessments, & qualitative research methods. Kurt also co-founded Joystick101.org, which has been recognized by Wired, Shift, and several news outlets as a leading site for the discussion of game design, theory, criticism, and culture. Cultural Framing of Computer/Video Games by Kurt Squire

I haven’t read a lot of research in the area of culture and instructional design – especially integration. did a literature review on the topic of  integrating culture in the design of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The definition of culture used in the article is from Geert Hofstede: Here’s a good one. Patricia Young, Ph.D.

Think about a closed business culture. Now, think about an open business culture. Try to visualize what it looks like. Try to visualize it. What image comes to mind in each thought? Does Does the former image looks something like a pyramid?

If you want to change the culture (as Will Kelly describes here ) it’s surely not just about the technology. But … to change the culture, you also need to drive an organization to believe that training does not only happen in an event (ILT and eLearning) and thus, by keeping the standalone LMS alive and kicking, you exacerbate the issue. Tags: Culture learning 2.0 This past week, I attended the SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas. I’ll provide some feedback on that particular release in another blog posting (read Bill Simser for now) but what the