Jay Cross

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Big Data at Google

Jay Cross

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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Google goof

Jay Cross

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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Hard numbers on soft skills

Jay Cross

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”). ” “My manager provides difficult feedback constructively.”

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Jane Hart’s Top 100 Learning Tools

Jay Cross

I have 9,000 followers who provide feedback or answer my questions. I really enjoy using Google to search images. If I need to remember who someone in a photograph is, Google will tell me about 80% of the time. I store all my files online, in Dropbox, Google Docs, and iCloud. Jane has 26,000 followers.). SurveyShare.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

rms, and sometimes even provide leads for new business. Google is teaching people to use more of its services in online courses. By doing this, Google is building customer loyalty. They provide a variety of means of for workers to get the information they need. Colearning with customers may be learning’s new frontier.

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Google’s soft underbelly

Jay Cross

I’ve been using Feedburner, an online service that’s now part of Google, to offer RSS subscriptions to my blogs. I follow Google’s advice and scour the discussions on Google Groups. Well, some of us like to provide something more sophisticated than raw text. I go to the Google Help Centers.

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Top Ten Tools

Jay Cross

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. Google Reader. Google Search. Collaboration and sharing are edging out searching and authoring. Jay’s Top Ten.