Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2009

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. As people use various different web sites to blog, update their status, post their location, or photos, sites and tools have emerged to aggregate these various actions into a continuous eclectic stream of activities. Microformats wiki.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social media — Facebook, Twitter, and other things you thought were for kids — are the way to stay connected and keep up with the world. Activity Streams are going to be wildly important for social learning. Few people have time to traipse around looking into all the nooks and crannies where a netizen or company is streaming content.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

Salesforce.com’s social network application was inspired by Facebook. Connections to friends and colleagues, like Facebook and LinkedIn. Activity streams, like Twitter, so I know what’s going on and what people are talking about. Choosing and subscribing to streams of information I’m interested in. Others are not.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Make it easy for me to connect with friends, like Facebook. Give me single sign-on, like using my Facebook profile to access multiple applications. Let me choose and subscribe to streams of information I’m interested in, like BoingBoing, LifeHacker or Huffpost. Let me learn from YouTube, an FAQ, or linking to an expert.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Many companies rely on Facebook, Twitter, and other consumer applications to connect their people. As social learning began to create a buzz, LMS vendors have responded by tacking blogs and microblogs (tweet streams) onto their registration and delivery systems. They learn more in the coffeeroom that in the classroom.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 2, 2011

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Jay Cross

JUNE 30, 2008

Reality is an endless stream of knowledge, culture and ideas that flows faster and faster. Traditional books are snapshots of that stream. The swifter the stream, the shorter the life of the book. Today's activist readers pluck information from the blogosphere and YouTube and their friends on Facebook and MySpace.

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