Challenge to Learn

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Websites, blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, newspapers, TV, radio to name a view of the overflowing sources that we need to manage and process. Steve Rosenbaum pointed out in his key note address at DevLearn that search engines like Google become less reliable and that we have to find other ways to manage the information overflow.

Google 163

Google Social Networks Informal Management 163

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

My most valuable tool is probably Flipboard combined with Google reader. When I find a blog I want to read more often I will subscribe to it with Google reader. Selecting the interesting ones and reading is something that I don’t like in Google reader at all, I use Flipboard for that purpose. Conferences.

Social Media 182

Social Media Communication Social Networks Media 182

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APRIL 6, 2015

I knew that I would not have access to Facebook, Twitter and Google because they are blocked by the Great Chinese Firewall, but it goes much further than that. The word control was probably the keyword for the week; both in my speech and in my China experience. The government in China controls a lot of things.

Easygenerator 100

Easygenerator Firewalls Flash Trends 100

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Instead of looking things up with google you plugin to the knowledge of somebody who is an acknowledged specialist in his field. Steven calls this ‘curation’ and told us that by publishing (like this blog or a twitter feed) we are all curating information. This means that people are replacing search engines.

DevLearn 157

DevLearn Conference Easygenerator Learning Objects 157

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MARCH 3, 2011

There are all kinds of tools available like Google analytics that can give you a great insight in which content is used, how often it is used and who uses it. We do this it in Twitter, Yammer, Facebook, Blogs and all other social media, we don’t do it enough in a corporate environment. User generated input.

Informal Learning 214

Informal Learning Informal Yammer Learning 214