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To optimize your learning, optimize your networks

Jay Cross

These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., They can be personal or professional on either side of the firewall (for example, the company football pool or machinists who support Obama’s re-election). The work team is a different sort of animal because we have a job to do. research chemists).

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

Setting up a SharePoint for a community or work team is very different from teaching them about Personal Learning. See lots of thoughts on this in: Enterprises that love PLE's , Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning corrupt? Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall ).

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How to Replace Top-Down Training with Collaborative Learning (3)

Jay Cross

That’s short for a phrase that kept coming up in conversation when he was writing Enterprise 2.0. Innovations in applications and user-interface design are born on the consumer side and migrate to the enterprise. You probably can’t afford, and definitely don’t need, to create your own Facebook or Google behind your firewall.