Jay Cross

JULY 29, 2015

I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. The cliché is that you learn more in the hallways than in the classrooms. As in the workplace, informal learning at conferences has more impact than formal learning. Announce a Twitter hashtag and encourage people to Tweet.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Understanding Corporate Twitter , a post from an employee of EMC, got me thinking about the role of corporate culture in implementing the social learning platforms I’ve been calling learnscapes. And so, when Twitter (or whatever) comes along, there’s really no need for us to do anything.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll have written a definitive book on virtual worlds, Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension in Enterprise Learning and Collaboration. Karl and Tony see a phase change in how people learn. Everyone will want to read the nine cases which demonstrate a variety of learning environments.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Learning is social. So why are so many of the forays into learning technology anti-social? Joe has been marrying people, technology, and learning since the early days. Joe’s take on learning is a good fit with mine: Learning is a uniquely human experience. You learn more in the company of other people.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2011

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , March 20, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Social Media for Working & Learning , May 4, 2010.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 31, 2011

LearnTrends, the Corporate Learning and Innovation Conference, is going off the air. In 2007, 2008, and 2009, we hosted free online conferences to push the envelope in learning innovation. We also conducted special events, e.g. a session on using Sharepoint to support learning and a 24-hour round-the-world marathon webinar.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

As a co-host, I am hardly without bias, but I found this morning’s opening of the free Corporate Learning Trends event fantastic. The proliferation of free learning tools certainly comes at the right time. I’ll give periodic reports here for those who have yet to adapt to the Twitterization of events.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

learning conference. I have learned so much in the last three days. Jane : don’t let the boss loose with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and a Smart Phone. Jane : don’t let the boss loose with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and a Smart Phone. That encompasses learning & pedagogy, creativity, tech, and business.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 11, 2010

I did not want to like paper.il, the new, personal Twitter aggregater. Nonetheless, it is so easy to set up, I filled in the blank with my Twitter list of Internet Time Alliance colleagues. This morning I visited my Daily site and learned a number of things I might otherwise have missed. Twitter /jaycross. …and now.

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Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

The top posts from sources selected for Informal Learning Flow in the first six months of 2009: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - OReilly Radar , January 11, 2009. New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - HarvardBusiness.org , June 1, 2009. 50 Essential Strategies For Creating A Successful Web 2.0

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2011

7 objections to social media in learning (and answers) - Donald Clark Plan B , June 11, 2011. Making the most of Informal Learning - Jane Hart , June 16, 2011. Making the most of Informal Learning - Jane Hart , June 16, 2011. Social media & learning – note taking on steroids - Donald Clark Plan B , June 20, 2011.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 4, 2011

Auto-save favorite Tweets / (Annotated) Twitter-This. If you are a Twitter fan, use “Save Favorite Tweets&# to allow you to save your favorite tweets to Diigo and (Annotated) “Twitter This” to tweet selective links as you bookmark. To learn more about Diigo, please visit: Overview Video ». Cross platforms support.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Smart Worker : shares what s/he learns - Jane Hart , August 2, 2011.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Several of our speakers list their Twitter accounts on our site so check them out here and be sure to follow any whose sessions you plan to attend. Half a dozen years later, I got Adobe to pay for a beer bash to enable top thinkers in learning (attending DevLearn) to cross-fertilize with the KM World speakers. It’s genetic.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

In addition to implementing social learning systems for universities and corporations, she leads workshops on social learning and somehow finds time to maintain the most useful learning site on the net, the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Aggregator – Informal Learning Flow [link].

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

It looks very cool, displaying little animated buttons for Twitter, F’book, Google+, and so on. How we learn… in five minutes. I just installed a WordPress Plugin from Sharaholic named SexyBookmarks. This is a test post to see how well it works. ” Oh, to be a child again!

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. > Learning Circuits was ASTD’s first foray into modern learning. Live conferencing and lecture, maybe, but not for mere content delivery or interactive learning. Two years later we launched the Learning Circuits Blog.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

Increasingly, posts about learning will appear in the Informal Learning Blog. Insights and pointers on learning, corporate performance, research. Informal Learning Blog. Informal Learning Blog. Twitter , Daily , Amplify. Left brain dominant. A group of us contribute our best thinking on working smarter.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 30, 2010

Learning Solutions Magazine. Working Smarter: Informal Learning in the Cloud by Jay Cross and Friends. One of the things I like best about Twitter is the collegial, friendly fire-ish banter among L & D professionals. As I said on Twitter one night, “I am 93.2% By Jane Bozarth. March 30, 2010.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 28, 2011

Steve Wheeler’s excellent post on Learning Technologies in London described the vendors at the show as stuck in a time warp, maybe on another planet. Money gushed into learning start-ups. Most of them touted the savings from forcing people to learn on their own time. What does the future hold for these guys?

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Social Learning: what actually is it? - Jane Hart , February 1, 2012. Layers of learning - Clark Quinn , February 1, 2012.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

About the Course: In this eleven-week course you’ll learn about the tools used by scientists to understand complex systems. The topics you’ll learn about include dynamics, chaos, fractals, information theory, self-organization, agent-based modeling, and networks. Introduction to Complexity. This is more like watching t.v.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The inaugural issue of Impact, the Journal of Applied Research in Workplace E-learning just appeared on the web. That’s where I find information on what’s happening; often it’s some place I’ve been directed to by Twitter. Related: Top 99 Workplace Learning Blogs. Jay’s learning research page.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2009

Reporters, researchers, and podcasters interview me about informal learning and its application in business every week. (I’m Tracking where you’re mentioned is tougher now that conversation on the web takes place on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and numerous other flows. Elearning Learning. Twitter /jaycross.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Tweetsmap plots your Twitter followers on a map of the world: Do it. Probably this pattern (for my closed blog on Informal Learning) is more representative. My learning colleagues are densely interconnected, as are the collaboration/KM people, but they are not very well connected to one another. It only takes a minute.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

At the turn of the century, blogging was brand spanking new, Twitter had yet to be born, and backchannels referred to espionage by double agents. And here’s my review of Online Learning 2001. Mobile learning has crossed the chasm. A member of the audience at the panel session asked how to build a learning strategy.

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Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2011

List of the top 100 Twitter influencers in Australia - Ross Dawson , May 31, 2011. Introducing Share&Learn - Jane Hart , May 12, 2011. Social learning for collaborative work - Harold Jarche , May 18, 2011. Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead - Dan Pontefract , May 23, 2011.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2015

You can re-jigger your meetings to make them relevant, challenging, and fun by adopting an approach that is revolutionizing secondary school learning. Conversations cross-fertilize ideas and fuel learning. Use Twitter as a backchannel for communications. They could be great or they could be horrible. The choice is yours.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Non-Training Approach to Workplace Learning - Jane Hart , November 23, 2011.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Learning is experiential. You learn from your peers and from doing things. Techies tend to move on every three years in search of fresh opportunities to learn. Teenagers on Twitter and Instagram have millions of followers. In traditional higher ed, colleges are not a place to learn skills. Consider Remix culture.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2009

Social media — Facebook, Twitter, and other things you thought were for kids — are the way to stay connected and keep up with the world. Enterprise Twitter. A corporate Twitter network puts power in the hands of the troops, and that’s threatening to an old-timey officer corps. Learning Irregulars is in formation.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Learning leaders must deal with situations that aren’t in the rule book. Learning and work are converging. Let’s engage in a little over-the-shoulder learning. I extract general pointers and patterns from tributaries such as: Twitter, where I receive tips from a couple of hundred people I respect and follow.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

I don’t talk much about training or learning any more. You can train people but they may or may not learn. Learning is better than training, but learning is not enough to make sure the job gets done. Moreover, people often fail to put what they learn into practice. It may or may not involve learning.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Along with my Internet Time Alliance colleagues Jane Hart & Clark Quinn and several hundred chief learning officers, I attended the Fall CLO Symposium this week. Our theme was “Game-Changing Learning: Development for the New Normal.” ” Sports metaphors filled the air. On the surface, this looks great. Stephen M.R.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2009

For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Activity streams are going to be wildly important for social learning. An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 2, 2008

My workshop on Social Learning and the Web is tomorrow. Tis the season: Tagged as: OEB08 , onlineeducaberlin { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Piotr December 2, 2008 at 1:01 pm Dear Jay, So you will meet my friends from Center of e-Learning UST. Wish U all the best, and I hope that U will meet each other. License.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Twitter provides a fine back-channel. And if you’re going to be in Sao Paolo this coming Monday evening, join Paul Pangaro and me for a live, face-to-face session on informal and social learning. Most presenters I’ve watched never go beyond the default settings. I’ve found it easier to present things in Skype.

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