Jay Cross

MAY 15, 2011

companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Most informal learning takes place despite training departments, not because of them. Most informal learning takes place despite training departments, not because of them. Informal learning is mushrooming as organizations implement social software.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. and learning networks.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 10, 2010

Several large LMS companies added “informal learning&# to their sales shticks this week. One says “All documents accessed can be tracked as informal learning events.&# (Documents are events?) Tony Karrer picked up some of the disconnects in a post entitled Social Learning Tools Should Not Be Separate from Enterprise 2.0.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Today’s world is a kaleidoscope, information is a tsunami, and workers face novel, complex situations every day. They need to provide informal feedback and work debriefs. Learning is social. Social software facilitates conversation. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2011

We talked of working smarter, the imperative to change, the ins and outs of informal learning, and why mobile learning is inevitable. Connect the enterprise with a technology like Jive. Payback from implementing social networking is collaborative content development and getting input from all sides (Q&A page).

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The process of seeking out and sharing meaning is a responsibility of enlightened social citizenship. 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.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 21, 2011

I closed the Informal Learning blog in February; its job was done. Ridiculous research findings on informal learning. How to evaluate social and informal learning. Embedding social learning into enterprise software. Kick-starting a corporate social network. Q&A about Informal Learning 213.

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