Jay Cross

MARCH 28, 2015

Google and others keep bugging me to set up two-stage identification where I’ll have to enter a code they email or message me in order to get into my accounts. My username’s never been secret. Why mess with it now? Changes like these cascade to other linked accounts. No thanks. I’d be checking messages 20 times a day.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2009

Before social media got hot, you could use simple search engines to see what people were saying about you, for example: Google “Jay Cross&#. Google blog search “Jay Cross&#. This makes it tough to respond to questions and comments. Technorati “Jay Cross&#.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 1, 2009

Tim showed a ‘94 search engine: 250 pages chosen from among a web of 5,000 pages. Then Google four years later: 25 million pages. Google now indexes a trillion pages. It’s trying to make sense of the world. It puts things in its mouth to try them out. Is the web baby getting smarter? And search is getting smarter.

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Web Social Media Google Search 36

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company had already told him that brainpower has become the engine of innovation. Google designs its apps for mobile before porting them to PCs. Mobile access – Half of America’s workforce sometimes works away from the office. Smart phones have surpassed PCs for connecting to networks.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2009

Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, “Balmond is one of the most important structural engineers working in architecture today. His structural thinking differs from that of other engineers in his field in its completely new conception of the engineer’s contribution to architecture.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

I set up a Google Search for daily news on the topic. Every day I would sift through a hundred or more items suggested by my social networks or the search engines. and gets reposted to my Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter feeds. Google for “Future of Conferences” and my work comes up #2. It’s one of mine.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

My workscape could include participating in a community of field technicians, looking things up on a search engine, and living in France for three months. Provide a single, simple, all-in-one interface, like that provided by Google for search. ing is on Google or YouTube. Others are not. Phones post most Tweets than computers.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Professionals there consider themselves programmers or chip designers or semiconductor engineers first and employees of HP or Intel or AMD second. What worked at Google. When Google sought to find out what makes managers successful , far and away the most important factor was being a good coach 7.

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Diversity Training Social Networks Communities of Practice Forum 51

Jay Cross

MARCH 15, 2011

The city and the Web have been such engines of innovation because, for complicated historical reasons, they are both environments that are powerfully suited to the creation, diffusion, and adoption of good ideas. The adjacent possible might include, say, the internal combustion engine and the carriage.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

Look at Google and Cisco. At the same time, we are shifting into an era in which knowledge work and learning occur where re-engineered business processes collide with a participative and interactive ecology of information flows. On paper, Google’s net worth was about $30 billion at the end of 2008. Intangibles.

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ROI Social Networks Network Authoring Tools 66

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 23, 2008

The icons across the top take me to frequent destinations: email, photos, to-do list, scratch pad, travel info, restaurant lists, search engines, dictionary, traffic conditions, Twitter account, and research page. When I’m looking for something beyond what Google or Wikipedia will find for me, I turn to my research page.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2011

Information repository, archives, search engine. Google 366. An online workscape is a network tuned for learning and collaboration. A typical workscape features these components: Participant profiles, expertise locators. Information flows, feeds, subscriptions. Forums for written discussion by topics or by teams. Wikipedia 363.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

People learn to do their work in small chunks: a tip from a pal, an “ah-ha moment&# after trying something new, a factoid from Wikipedia or Google, a glimpse of someone doing something well, or a story told over lunch. Participated in international panel on engineering excellence at a castle outside of Aachen.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 16, 2013

So the worker checks Google or SlashDot or other resources on the web to see who’s got books or articles or blogs or case studies on her topic. A four-year degree in engineering will be obsolete in four years. A single, simple, all-in-one interface, like that provided by Google for search.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 24, 2012

Twelve days ago, I began curating a stream of information on happiness and well-being from Google Alerts and various recommendation engines. .” He concluded that GDP measures everything ”except that which makes life worthwhile.” ” Progress report on my learning. I’ve scanned hundreds of items.

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