Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizaiotns Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth by Rob Cross and Robert J. This sequel to Rob Cross’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks is chock full of practical advice on leveraging networks for innovation and increased performance.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizaiotns Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth by Rob Cross and Robert J. This sequel to Rob Cross’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks is chock full of practical advice on leveraging networks for innovation and increased performance.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 36

Jay Cross

JUNE 27, 2011

The Cluetrain Manifesto, United Breaks Guitars, and blame your friends if you’re fat: the conclusion of my presentation at the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace earlier this month.

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Network Conference eLearning 40

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

For all the talk about networks and knowledge sharing, it appears many organizations aren’t practicing it. They are not tending their networks. Business Intelligence, CLO magazine, December 2008. How is your enterprise approaching these concepts? learning practices.

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Network Communities of Practice Trends Wiki 36

Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2011

Osama is dead. I heard the news on Twitter, twenty minutes before things were official. The jungle drums that are today’s web worked! I got the news before most t.v. And I’m tuning out now because television has reverted to continuous reverb. Pundits trying to fill dead air with non-news. I’m off to find the next story.

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Network Effectiveness News Web Work 48

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

How will you take advantage of your in-house social network? Use networks to create services and share collective intelligence. Your company will install an in-house social network. Wise Chief Learning Officers are thinking about how social networks will augment learning & development. and learning networks.

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Social Networks Social Social Network SocialText 55

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

danah boyd opened ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 with a keynote on teenagers, networks, and work in the 21st century. Social networks have become the fabric of the high tech industry. Networks rule. People are organizing by networks instead of groups. People go to those institutions for social networking.

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Social Networks Mashups Mash-up Social Network 59

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The underlying concept is that organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. Harold made a key addition: Work teams collaborate; learning networks cooperate; communities of practice do both.

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Organization Social Networks Communities of Practice Sun 84

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. The networked market knows more than companies do about their own products. Conversations among human beings sound human.

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Voice Policies Network Sound 36

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. A social business is one where all the members of the corporate ecosystem (employees, customers, partners, and customers) network with one another to delight their customers.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 79

Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Companies are connecting people with social network technology. Some have so embraced in-house social networking, microblogging, and discussion forums that they define themselves as “social businesses.” The merged workflow/learning that flow through these networks makes or breaks the enterprise’s sustainability.

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Social Networks MySpace Social Network Ratio 62

Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2011

Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. We already know many ways to make networks more effective. For example, take one aspect of a purposeful enterprise network, profiling. Network analysis.

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Social Networks Evalution Social Network Analysis Informal Learning 65

Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

recommend software for social networking, content management, video production, and multivariate search as well as fexible, simple systems to administer mandated training. help individuals build trusted Personal Knowledge Networks of colleagues they can call upon for advice and support. Optimize performance of the learning network.

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Corporate Learning Social Networks Case Study Taxonomy 75

Jay Cross

JANUARY 11, 2012

Social business , Enterprise 2.0 , Radical Management , the Connected Company , Living Networks , Management 3.0, culture, and optimizing networks. Social business , Enterprise 2.0 , Radical Management , the Connected Company , Living Networks , Management 3.0, culture, and optimizing networks. We can’t go on like this.

Social Networks 68

Social Networks Business Enterprise 2.0 Compliance Training 68

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 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Social Networks Doc Enterprise 2.0 Social Media 64

Jay Cross

MARCH 5, 2012

The shift from training programs to learning networks expands learning and development from a limited department isolated from business operations into a critical, pervasive business function. My next post on this topic will discuss how to shift from the traditional pattern to the network model. Note what’s happening here.

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Training Train Pattern Network 67

Jay Cross

JANUARY 6, 2015

Participants attend conferences to network and to learn. Add people to personal and problem-solving networks. Hunt for a job, add potential hirers and hiring companies to personal network. My gut tells me people attend conferences for Learning, Networking, Career Development, and Socializing.

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Conference vendor Network Reputation 36

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 26, 2008

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Network Internet Blogging Trends 36

Jay Cross

AUGUST 7, 2009

In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and obliterating the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. In sum, networks are ushering in new ways of doing business.

Learning 2.0 75

Learning 2.0 Informal Learning Informal Cognitive 75

Jay Cross

JULY 12, 2011

The Network Era. Rather, the network economy had finally taken the wind out of the sails of the industrial age. Relationships are the glue that holds networks together. The knowing/doing gap surrounding the advent of the network era is humongous. The economy was not going to “bounce back.&# A new normal.

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Leadership Social Networks Network Knowing Doing Gap 63

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

As one pundit put it, “The ROI of social networking is being in business a few years from now.”. Hierarchical and network-era (2012) companies Collaborative. has taught hundreds of millions of people about social networking. You can’t live without it. We call industrial-age (old school) companies.

Social Networks 57

Social Networks Collaborative Learning Collaboration Wiki 57

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 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Cognitive Social Networks Social Media Network 62

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

People who are no longer freshmen, he argues, should invest their time in eLearning and informal learning in social networks. CROSS: eLearning is the marriage of learning and networks. And social networks are vital to the achievement of informal learning today. GLOBO: Workshops are just for freshmen? I did not invent the term.

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Google Social Networks Social Network Beginner 46

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 6, 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 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Social Networks Social Network Diversity Training Cognitive 59

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2013

My interests embrace business strategy, networks, innovation, and learning. My interests embrace business strategy, networks, innovation, and learning. Consider these pages a museum of things that have inspired my thinking since the ‘net lit up.

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Network Internet Innovation Culture 38

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 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. The point of Web 2.0

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Social Networks Social Media Social Network Network 50

Jay Cross

JULY 28, 2012

Networks rule. The Network Era is very much alive. We realized that everything in the universe is connected to everything else. The future’s unpredictable. S**t happens. We live in the midst of a phase change in how we humans understand the world. The dying embers of the Industrial Age are growing cold.

Organization 52

Organization Network Games Industry 52

Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Stoos Network. The Stoos Network on LinkedIn. Stoos Network on Twitter. Help the Stoos Gathering Transform Management (Forbes). More Ideas for Jumpstarting the Transformation of Management (Forbes). Starting ideas. The invitation to Stoos. A great summary of the Stoos Gathering from Steve Denning.

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Wikipedia Agile Summary Network 48

Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2011

At yesterday’s meeting of the CLO Executive Network, people asked whether it’s better to start at the top or the organization or to grow things from the bottom. We’ve seen grass-roots efforts go viral and spread from humble beginnings to enterprise-wide collaborative network. It depends. Adobe Flash is required.

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Social Networks Social Network CLO Flash 46

Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2011

Social networks are the carrier wave of corporate conversations. Hence, the preponderance of learning in corporations is going to take place in social networks. Conversations are the stem cells of business learning.

Social Networks 59

Social Networks Jive Social Network Enterprise 59

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

We are no longer offering or supporting free Ning Networks. If you haven’t selected a plan for your free Ning Network, you can no longer access the network. To regain access, please visit www.ning.com, sign-in and then click “Select a Plan&# for your Ning Network.

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Ning Network Site Offline 50

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Working smarter draws upon design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, and complexity theory.

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Authoring Tools Social Networks Content Xyleme 46

Jay Cross

AUGUST 21, 2012

Businesses around the world are transforming into extended enterprise networks but their training departments are stuck in the previous century. The Twenty-First Century Corporation. In the pursuit of trying to ?x x what’s broken, let’s imagine what ideal corporate learning would look like if we could start over from scratch.

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Collaboration Collaborative Learning Torrent Slideshare 68

Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Network socially with Socialcast, Buddypress, GoToMeeting, Google+. membership in ongoing support network. Four to twelve hours/week for five weeks. Collaborate with a self-organizing team to solve problems. Form an on-going community of practice. Tweet, blog, link, bookmark, narrate, and record. Become a Performance Ninja.

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Informal Learning Informal Communities of Practice Learning 66

Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

Writing it has reinforced my belief that the way to become a better learner is to construct a better network. A early step is reflecting on your current network. I’m finishing up my next book, Informal Learning in Business. Who are you connected to? Where do you go to learn things? What’s your recent experience?

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Survey Informal Learning OCW Informal 47

Jay Cross

JULY 15, 2012

New beginning… A dynamic network of passionate people to steward the living rathen than managing the machine. Stoos Network is where you can get more. In the network era, workers are whole people. Transform the world. A BIG TENT. Jay’s Reflections. In the industrial age, workers were cogs in the machine.

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Enterprise Network Voice Coaching 44

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

An online phenomenon gathering momentum over the past two years or so, a MOOC integrates the connectivity of social networking, the facilitation of an acknowledged expert in a ?eld Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Networked Learning, Aalborg, Denmark. What is a MOOC? Available: [link]. Mackness, J.,

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Pedagogy Social Networks Distance Learning Wiki 65