Jay Cross

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Information flows faster when it’s available to everyone. They share information with competitors because sharing is to everyone’s advantage. A girl is horrified when her mom joins Facebook. My father has joined Facebook. The son replies “Welcome to Facebook.”. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade.

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Egoboo integration

Jay Cross

Reporters, researchers, and podcasters interview me about informal learning and its application in business every week. (I’m Before social media got hot, you could use simple search engines to see what people were saying about you, for example: Google “Jay Cross&#. Facebook /Jay Cross. Technorati “Jay Cross&#.

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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. The magic of Sun’s approach is that it accelerates informal learning. Back to those Twittering, Facebooking, always-on college students. This is a group that learns from nano-nuggets. The oldsters are not.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden - OReilly Radar , March 4, 2009. Ten years after - Informal Learning , January 10, 2009. April 23, 2009.

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Learners as customers

Jay Cross

For example, the people today were really hot about live help as a sales tool. Social networking sites account for more web traffic than news and information sites. Here’s the bad news for online marketers: people don’t go to Facebook to shop. Text chat comes in many varieties.

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What’s hot in Working Smarter in October

Jay Cross

good example of such a system is the Desire2Learn ePortfolio system. This presents a crisis not only for newspapers, magazines and television — but also, according to the stock market, for Facebook. Validation (ensuring that information is reliable, current or supported by research). OCTOBER 23, 2013. A Few Words on ePortfolios.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Facebook /Jay Cross. Informal Learning. Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces labor costs. For example, I have no qualms about walking out of a boring presentation, even if I’ve been sitting in the front row. Linkedin /jaycross. Twitter /jaycross.