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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Because the culture was already established.  A few people rarely can have a profound impact on established cultures.  It is because the cultures, policies and processes which they join are so well established and many of the employees have willingly assimilated to them that it is almost impossible to break. Did it help? 
 
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Adding a real voice, can sometimes also add to the cultural background and fit the learning relationships of certain cultures. This way it also feels more relevant and truthful from a cultural perspective. In the Big Question launched by Tony Karrer this month , he wonders how we use Text-to-Speech (TTS) in our courses?
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
To be an insider you must be fluent in the group’s language, customs, culture, rituals, and history. So they learn enough of the language and the culture to order a beer and hang out in a bar. Respect the language and culture. I’m so lucky to be managing this community, because the “community&# already exists.
 

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Do we first require an organizational culture adaptation prior to any meaningful Enterprise 2.0 tools need to become so simplistic, easy to use and of course generally available to an organization before a culture can be considered connected, flat and more collaborative? That should change the culture, right? adoption?
McLaren talked critically about the culture of Britain today - in his own words, often laced with profanity, it is a mediocre Karaoke culture - one in which there is no responsibility, and one in which reality shows hold sway, and instant success can be had for no real effort. And that is exactly what he did.
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: Better understanding of what is going on in the organization across many teams & projects. That’s a culture I would want to be a part of. Employees want to connect with one another.
Tags: participatory culture
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. Here are nine more to ponder. Peer power : Networks subvert hierarchy.
Drawing also upon a cultural study conducted by a group of his own undergraduate students, it is a thought provoking, challenging and truly uplifting speech. Tags: YouTube social media ALT-C Michael Wesch Culture democracy and participative media. Watch the entire half hour and I promise. you will be inspired.
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 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. Really.
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.
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). Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values. Time orientation.
I was recently invited to join the editorial board of a new and exciting open access journal called Digital Culture and Education. DCE is a new international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on research in areas of digital culture which are relevant for education." Well there you have it. and all of it is open access.