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Ridiculous research findings on informal learning

Jay Cross

Informal learning is mushrooming as organizations implement social software. It’s hard to imagine informal learning not going along for the ride when a company embraces Jive or Chatter or Yammer or Socialcast or similar networking environments.

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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

Mentoring can help improve career development, simplify increased responsibilities, build confidence, and help individuals learn and grow within an organization. There is no perfect model or one-size-fits-all solution for every organization to adopt.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. ” What features would you need and why?

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

McKinsey, MIT and others report that companies that embrace social business models: reduce time to market. The social business juggernaut has arrived and the time to get on board is now. You appreciate that social business — connecting everyone in the organization in networks makes sense. reduce operating costs.

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Is Multiple Activity Streams the Way Forward for Enterprise Platforms?

ID Reflections

Before I move on let me briefly explain how Jive --whichpowers our social platform--works. Jive offers users the ability to customizetheir two activity streams--one stream reflects everything the user is Following on the platform and thisincludes people, places and content. Will greatergranularity kill serendipity?

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. When this happens, the LMS will move past somewhat of a marginalized view to something that is more systemic and more broadly leveraged across the organization.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

The social business bandwagon has arrived and companies are installing Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, HootSuite, and more to replace outmoded intranets and improve the way they transact business. Furthermore, universities need to become networked to meet the needs of businesses seeking training.