Informal Learning on Google Books FREE
Jay Cross
MARCH 27, 2015
Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Informal Learning Just Jay' Read a couple of chapters for free.
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Big Data at Google
Jay Cross
JUNE 10, 2014
To see Big Data at work, look to Google, where number-crunching on a massive scale has changed hiring and management practices. Measurements and analytics rule at Google. All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team.
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Learn Informal Learning Informally
Jay Cross
JUNE 13, 2012
Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Network socially with Socialcast, Buddypress, GoToMeeting, Google+. By the close of the workshop, you will be able to… understand what informal learning is, how it works, why it’s important.
Google Translate
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
This article recently appeared in a newspaper in Rio: I stuffed the text into Google Translate and pressed the button. People who are no longer freshmen, he argues, should invest their time in eLearning and informal learning in social networks. As the informal knowledge could develop business? Interview with Jay Cross. ?
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Google goof
Jay Cross
APRIL 20, 2011
Google just wasted twenty minutes of my time on a wild goose chase. Dear Google Apps administrator, Google Apps accounts are undergoing an improvement , allowing you to give users access to over 60 additional applications from Google. Get access to over 60 additional applications from Google right away.
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Hangout on Implementing Informal Learning this Saturday
Jay Cross
JANUARY 16, 2013
Join me for a Google+ Hangout on Air this Saturday morning at 10:00 am Pacific time. Why isn’t L&D supporting informal learning? Informal learning is important. The CLOs reported “…there is little knowledge about how exactly to support informal learning.”. It’s number one on the list.)
Why isn’t L&D embracing informal learning?
Jay Cross
JANUARY 20, 2013
A Google+ Hangout with Craig Wiggings, Charles Jennings, Enzo Silva, Pascal le Rudulier, Clark Quinn, and Jay Cross. Join the Learning in Organizations Community on Google+. Rough Agenda. Chat Transcript.
Here’s A Google Perk Any Company Can Imitate: Employee-To-Employee Learning
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 28, 2013
See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. Google taps its own ranks to teach valuable career-building classes as well as extracurriculars like kickboxing and social skills for engineers. " See on www.fastcompany.com.
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Getting informal in Sao Paolo
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
“How are informal conversations transforming our understanding and learning practices in businesses and communities?&#. ON INFORMAL LEARNING. Investing in formal education is always high while the informal learning is neglected and even discouraged, this is a huge waste of human potential,&# says Jay Cross.
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JSB on the roots of informal learning
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
Informal Learning begins with these words: “THIS IS A BOOK about knowledge workers, twenty-first-century business, and informal learning. The workhorse of the knowledge economy has been, and continues to be, informal learning. Most teaming about how to do a job is informal. “Training&# ? Peter was right.
Informal learning hot list for February 2009
Jay Cross
MARCH 3, 2009
It beats threshing a barrage of chaff to locate the kernels of information you want. The Informal Learning Flow aggregator is beginning to take social signals into account. Hot List on Informal Learning. You can harness the same technology to focus searches for information. Informal Learning Flow and RSS and.
Contents of the informal cloud book
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 20, 2009
Work Smarter: Informal Learning Enters the Cloud. Google, 20, 68, 79, 81, 89, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 113, 115, 116, 120, 124, 130, 131, 142, 152. Informal Learning , 2, 6, 33, 41, 97, 98, 103, 104, 126, 127, 129, 179, 183, 187. ADDIE, 22, 23, 102, 106. Allen Interactions, 106. Andrew McAfee, 121. ASTD, 56, 66, 120, 183. Taylor, 82.
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37 Hard numbers on soft skills
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Google is all about the numbers. Empowers the team and does not micromanage (See the sidebar “How Google Defines One Key Behavior”). Empowers the team and does not micromanage (See the sidebar “How Google Defines One Key Behavior”). Is a good communicator—listens and shares information. A good manager: 1.
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43 Friday Hangout, Feb 8
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Drop by the Google+ Learning Community Hangout this Friday at 9:00 am Pacific | 12:00 pm Eastern | 5:00 pm Greenwich Mean | 6:00 pm Berlin | Abu Dhabi 9:00 pm | Shanghai 1:00 am | Sydney 4:00 am | Honolulu 7:00 am. Come to the Learning Community page on Google at the anointed hour and you’ll receive an invitation. Only connect.
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Customer Learning, a largely unexploited marketing strategy
Jay Cross
JULY 12, 2012
Google’s course on power searching is a brilliant marketing move. ” Google is teaching people to use more of its services. Simultaneously, Google is building customer loyalty. Google could have produced a slick, buttoned-down, tech-oriented training program, like they did for Google Wave. No rapport.
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Press release: Business+MOOCs
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 24, 2013
Location: Google+ Hangout on Air internettime.com/mooc/. The Learning Community of Google+ is hosting the session. Find more information about MOOCs and the event at internettime.com/mooc/. FOR MORE INFORMATION. Invite the world. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. _. IMPORTANT, FREE ONLINE MEETING ON MEGA-CLASSES & BUSINESS.
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Musing on Google’s Power Searching Course and marketing
Jay Cross
JULY 20, 2012
Today I completed Google’s Power Searching Course. Google Earth has a lot more detail than I remember from previous visits. Previously I approached Google searches much like looking something up in an encyclopedia or dictionary. A pre-search can inform the real search. You can narrow a search by date. For me, yes.
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Making Sense of the World
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
Information work entailed following instructions, logical analysis and left-brained procedures. I’m pulling information from a vast array of disciplines. There’s obviously too much information to choose from. You have to develop an approach for making sense of this sea of information and knowledge.
The game of course
Jay Cross
AUGUST 12, 2012
The largest obstacle holding L&D professionals back from taking advantage of network technologies, distributed networks, social connections, peer interaction, and informal learning may be their bedrock belief that learning = courses. Harold and Jane explain that informal learning entails sharing control of learning with learners.
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The new workplace
Jay Cross
MAY 1, 2012
Six years ago few people believed that informal learning made much of a difference. Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. Informal learning tops many training department agendas. The information explosion has hit. People have become savvy web consumers.
How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)
Jay Cross
AUGUST 28, 2012
Google is teaching people to use more of its services in online courses. Google could have produced a slick, buttoned-down, tech-oriented training program, like they did for Google Wave, but this time around, Google chose a friendly, avuncular fellow to lead you through the ondemand session. He stumbles occasionally.
The Heinz Ketchup Case Study
Jay Cross
JUNE 2, 2013
The case included the demographics of buyers, the geographic spread of the market, and all manner of information about packaging options. The brand managers and UI designers at Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and other consumer web services need to learn this lesson. While I was on the road for the last 24 days, Google+ donned a new skin.
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64 Google’s soft underbelly
Jay Cross
AUGUST 29, 2010
I’ve been using Feedburner, an online service that’s now part of Google, to offer RSS subscriptions to my blogs. Four months ago, the RSS feed associated with the Informal Learning Blog started to go haywire. I follow Google’s advice and scour the discussions on Google Groups.
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Hacked: A Descent into the Malware Inferno
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
When I tried to log on to my blog, I was confronted with this warning notice: Google issues alerts like this to warn visitors of malicious sites. My associate Paul Simbeck-Hampson got on the case, feeding me information on malware he found on the net. I visited Google off and on again. The Google alert notices were still up.
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Top Ten Tools
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 26, 2009
Two years back, the most popular tools were Firefox, Delicious, Google Search, Skype, and PowerPoint. Currently, the top tools are Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Google Docs, and SlideShare. By “learning&# we mean both formal and informal learning – as well as performance support. Google Reader.
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Jay Cross
JUNE 14, 2010
People learn socially and informally. Research usually finds that around 80% of workplace learning is informal. Note that the studies that came up with the 80% were conducted before we had social networks or Google or YouTube or Facebook or ubiquitous email or blogs or smart phones. Tags: Informal Learning.
So many thoughts, so little time
Jay Cross
JULY 6, 2009
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. Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - OReilly Radar , May 27, 2009. Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?
Join our Learning Hangout Tuesday at 1:30 pm Pacific/4:30 Eastern/9:30 Greenwich
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Join Google+. (If If this is your first time, allow 15 minutes to get set up.). Join our Learning Community. At the appointed hour, I’ll open the Hangout. A Hangout accommodates ten people in a video conference. First come, first served. Have your video cam and audio ready to go. Bring a question. This is an Un-Hangout.
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Social maps
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 24, 2011
I imagine it’s because if you Google Google Translate , my post comes up #8 in the results. Probably this pattern (for my closed blog on Informal Learning) is more representative. They are drawn to this post in particular — 44,000 hits and still climbing. I don’t get it.
Awesome insights into working smarter
Jay Cross
SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
Google Plus and Twitter – How They Work for Me Hand in Hand - Luis Suarez , August 1, 2011. Keynote slides: The Future of Information Infrastructure - Ross Dawson , August 1, 2011. The role of informal social networks in building organizational creativity and innovation - Ross Dawson , August 8, 2011.
My life as a sysop
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. Anthem hadn’t bothered to encrypt any of this information. My username’s never been secret. Why mess with it now? No thanks. ” What a load of crap.
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Learning Hangout Saturday, February 2
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
You’ll experience Google+ Hangouts on Air (a must-see). Another Saturday, another HangOut On Air. 10:00 am Pacific. Conversation About GOOD STUFF. Drop by 10:00-11:00 Pacific tomorrow morning. Good afternoon, good evening to all. Bring a tip!
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Most popular posts about Working Smarter for July 2012
Jay Cross
JULY 31, 2012
Importing HTML into Google Docs spreadsheets . Rick Klau points [ g+ ] to a feature of Google Docs spreadsheets I didn’t know about (although I’m far from a spreadsheet maven): It can automatically include a table from any HTML document accessible on the Web. Push and Pull, Formal and Informal JAY CROSS | TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2012.
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Jay Cross
JANUARY 18, 2010
I took this shot of George Leonard at his home when we talked about informal learning several years ago. I went online and asked Google to find a photo to use in a memorial. George died earlier this month. I found several, none by me and none attributed to me. © All rights reserved.
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Jay Cross
MARCH 21, 2009
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&#. Google blog search “Jay Cross&#.
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What does a 21st century leader need to do?
Jay Cross
JULY 31, 2011
often swipe images for blog posts from Bing or Google. Successful leaders know who they are, choose a leadership style that works for them, lead balanced lives, manage time wisely, use informal networks to get things done, express themselves fully and well, reflect on their experience, and have confidence that they can get the job done.
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52 Your social wishlist
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Activity stream – for monitoring the organizational pulse in real time, sharing what you’re doing, being referred to useful information, asking for help, accelerating the flow of news and information, and keeping up with change. Google designs its apps for mobile before porting them to PCs.
danah boyd on teens and 21st century work
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Information flows faster when it’s available to everyone. They share information with competitors because sharing is to everyone’s advantage. danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. danah has been studying teenagers for a decade. It takes place after hours in bars.
Eric Schmidt on innovation, reflection
Jay Cross
JANUARY 14, 2009
McKinsey Quarterly interviews Google’s CEO. The Quarterly: Could you tell us about how Google innovates? Google’s objective is to be a systematic innovator at scale. But by doing that you cut down the informal ties that, in an open culture, drive so much collaboration. There are no counter examples.
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10 most popular posts of 2012
Jay Cross
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Google Analytics tells me these are 2012′s greatest hits on jaycross.com. Training departments push training, while workers search and ask for the information they need. Dan Pink’s new book. Dan Pink has written another best seller. The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) Dan disagrees.
eLearn Magazine’s 2010 Predictions
Jay Cross
JANUARY 8, 2010
Google Wave is already set to become a very popular tool this year, and I think it represents the way that tools are going to evolve in the near future, that is that the social functionality found in standalone tools is going to merge and become amalgamated into more integrated “learning&# tools. Wave Crests. Move It or Lose It.
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43 Time-waster mail
Jay Cross
AUGUST 2, 2008
Googling SDI’s address and so forth led to a blind alley. People who send blanket emails with no identifying information and no breadcrumbs leading back to where they came from are little better than pond scum. Further, in order to minimize any learning curve, the basic site features have remained the same.
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36 Best of working smarter for September 2011
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Informal learning is a business imperative - Harold Jarche , September 13, 2011. Saturday Surprise: Google Gravity - Jane Hart , September 17, 2011. Tim Spalding on what libraries can learn from LibraryThing - David Weinberger , September 23, 2011. Max Boisot 1943-2011 - Dave Snowden , September 10, 2011. Who Are You?
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