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From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

Jane Hart

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Activity streams. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions. Notifications. Group spaces.

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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

The analytics told me that over 40% of the users are Active Users (a term Jive uses to describe all users who log in to consume content without necessarily interacting with the content in any manner). There are communities where we continue to remain as lurkers. This happens due to various reasons.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. We learn more from our co-workers, our bosses, our customers, our partners, and our friends than from our teachers and books. Serving enterprise customers. This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine.