Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

The Happiness Trade is about 2% news and 98% echo chamber. Research finds it takes four positive thoughts to balance one negative thought. I’d been told it took seven. Consider being your own happiness coach. It’s not that tough to see the world as a better place. People are forever repeating the same lists of self-help hints.

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Cognitive Flash Social Networks Facebook 65

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

Flows : The babbling brook of new information and news: Internet Time Blog & history. Yesterday’s stock becomes today’s flow. It’s a loose definition at best. Stocks are often pushed. Flows are invariably pulled. Informal Learning Blog. Informal Flow. Jay’s Learnstream. Twitter , Daily , Amplify.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Social networking sites account for more web traffic than news and information sites. Here’s the bad news for online marketers: people don’t go to Facebook to shop. She’d be minimizing distractions, making navigation drop-dead simple, and calling drop-outs to see what went wrong.

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Social Networks Custom Learner Social Network 36

Jay Cross

APRIL 9, 2013

For training directors and CLOs, the future holds good news or bad news. Training administrators who fail to understand the new dynamics of business as likely to find themselves stripped bare, evaluated by metrics they do not understand, and looking for another line of work. Lifetime worker contribution. On the fly simulations.

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Business Metrics Simulations Firewalls 40

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Google News Reader. How had I missed this? Designed by Andy Herzfeld. I was a fanatic student of the nature of time for several of the early and middle years of the naughts. Read 50 books on the nature of time! Not something I advise. Read the summaries.). I never wrapped my mind around the concept of time.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 6, 2015

Get the latest news, find out what’s hot and what’s not. Find out about new products, kick the tires, hear from vendors. Participants attend conferences to network and to learn. Specifically, they attend to: Meet face-to-face with peers. Gather information about products, techniques, trends. Develop in their careers, see and be seen.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 11, 2010

Our Daily Tweet-news. Just more clutter, I thought to myself. 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.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2013

Daily Newspapers are toast; they only print “old news.” Consider these anachronisms: The Eight-Hour Day equated time passed with work accomplished. Today getting the job done is more important than how long it took to do it. ” Annual Reports are useless because investment decisions are instantaneous.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

They’re not up with the news. Several friends have told me they aren’t coming to Online Educa in Berlin because it’s too academic.

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Business Forum Corporate eLearning News 50

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 19, 2008

An amazing set of photographs of the news of 2008. Savor history. Thanks to Luiz Algarra for the link.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2015

Plus, searching for fresh content puts you in touch with the latest news. As master curator Robin Good suggests, you need to give your opinion to add value. It keeps you on your toes. Bookmarks are my external memory. In the course of researching two books, I’ve created nearly 3,000 bookmarks.

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Tools Freeware PPT Google Docs 36

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 19, 2012

A free audio download of a one-hour special edition of Office Hours (which won’t be available anywhere else) featuring exclusive interviews with Robert Cialdini, author of the classic book, Influence , and Adam Grant, the Wharton professor whose not-yet-published study is one of the biggest pieces of news in To Sell is Human.

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Movie Sales PDF Lesson 61

Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O - OReilly Radar , May 27, 2009. New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - HarvardBusiness.org , June 1, 2009. Old Growth Media And The Future Of News - stevenberlinjohnson.com , March 14, 2009. Body Language Decoded - Forbes.com: News , June 28, 2009.

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Social Networks Google Wave Social Network Analysis Twitter 43

Jay Cross

MARCH 31, 2009

Even if you don’t come within 5,000 miles of San Francisco this week, you can follow a happening like this, and reap the benefits from its online news and updates. The learning bounty was great!

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 3, 2012

News always travels faster by the grapevine and now the grapevine is automated. Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time.

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Social Networks Compliance Training Jive Yammer 62

Jay Cross

MAY 30, 2009

Rather, we recommend redeploying them in new capacities, serving as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors and performance consultants. There’s no cookie-cutter formula for assigning these new roles and responsibilities. New communities have different requirements than old.

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Technology Wiki Metrics CLO 38

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

All Hangouts should begin with social warmup, news, and catch-up. In the future we’ll experiment with several different type of Hangout: (1) purely social, the “Hello, stranger Caffe,” Starbucks without the expensive drinks, (2) Hangout on a specific issue, perhaps with SME. The chat transcript follows. 9:51 AM.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2011

Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point - Ross Dawson , August 30, 2010. The Org Structure of Enterprise 2.0 - Dan Pontefract , April 18, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Augmented Reality – Explained by Common Craft - Lee LeFever , March 23, 2010.

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Enterprise 2.0 Social Networks Wiki Social Media 51

Jay Cross

AUGUST 9, 2013

popurls® is the mother of news aggregators, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet | invented by thomas marban. For most of us, this edgy news doesn’t come from the usual suspects. See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2008

When you’re getting ready to sell your boss on a new approach, you can use all the ammunition in the arsenal, and that means I need to make things easier to find. There’s a decade of writing, news, pointers, cases, jokes, and suggestions floating around out there. This is a tough exercise.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Activity stream – for monitoring the organizational pulse in real time, sharing what you’re doing, being referred to useful information, asking for help, accelerating the flow of news and information, and keeping up with change.

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Social Networks Social Social Network SocialText 55

Jay Cross

MAY 6, 2008

The New York Times Navigator is used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. If you prefer, check out the recordings of Grateful Dead concerts.

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Site Write Blog Attitudes Library 36

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Remember the impact of negative news. . …translated into a recommendation, that means that to avoid the revenge of Bianca, we must be prepared to insult systems for the convenience of humanity, not the other way around. Imagine Bianca’s reaction to her grades! Be aware of misrepresentative tests. Illigitimi non carborundum.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

New developments are spread all over the place. There’s no one-stop shop for news about working smarter. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. Keeping up with developments in all of these fields is daunting.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 6, 2009

I hired a guy who shoots news and commercials as my tutor. Early this year I decided to learn how to create effective video. After polling friends and reading reviews, I bought myself a Canon HF 10 video cam last month. I read several books on shooting video. I tried to get my head around the subject.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In June, Charles Jennings alerted me that BBC journalists were carrying Kodak Zi8s to grab news stories. However, the cams are not becoming commodities, for there are vast differences from one manufacturer’s goods to another’s. However, now I’m shooting video left and right.

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Jay Cross

JULY 4, 2009

Caution: this is what Jon Stewart would call old news. Rather, we recommend redeploying them in new capacities, serving as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors and performance consultants. How did we get here so quickly? It’s making me dizzy. Winter 2009.

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Social Networks Friendfeed Social Network Wiki 36

Jay Cross

JANUARY 29, 2010

Is this good news or bad? All these are familiar, and they all have deep roots in the training and development community. Should we lament that the habits identified in this study are not much different in 2009 than they were in 1989 (although, of course, enabled by technology)? And most important, what do you intend to do about it?

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Jay Cross

MAY 23, 2008

After all, the Blog is where I share my discoveries and interpretations, not perishable news. Nonetheless, on a standard Blog, the new pushes the old off the bottom of the page, out of sight, and out of mind, regardless of value.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

I set up a Google Search for daily news on the topic. IDEA: Entering new markets? Recruit someone to curate news to share with everyone on the team. IDEA: New person joining the team? The initial attempt to offer the curated news as RSS feeds and on blogs bombed. It’s one of mine. That’s all there is to it.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Development offices use social networks to stay in touch with alumni and support them with news, information, and networking opportunities. Activity streams, a “river of news,” are the lifeblood of today’s social networks. The tools of the social web are in constant flux.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 79

Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

The great news is that social and informal learning don’t require new systems because learning can take place on the same “platform” as the existing social network, if a company already has one. Activity streams should be available for the company at large and for workspaces.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Activity stream – for monitoring the organization pulse in real time, sharing what you’re doing, being referred to useful information, asking for help, accelerating the flow of news and information, and keeping up with change.

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Social Networks Wiki Facebook Diigo 77

Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Same Sex Married Life | 10 Thousand Couples online same sex married life magazine, same-sex couples news, profiles in courage, relationship advice, healthy marriage, healthy families, global. See on Scoop.it – Jay Cross. Jay Cross ‘s insight: This is a great list of hints for leading a better life.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2008

This new web is about connecting with people and sharing things with them, things like video, news clips, restaurant reviews, photos, blogs. The users provide the content; there’s no inventory and no staff creating content. Marketing is viral. Often there’s no physical office. This is a different deal than web 1.0;

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Social Networks Offline Web Social Network 36

Jay Cross

JUNE 20, 2011

At the airport, I perused the best sellers at the Hudson News bookstore. These were topics I had previously written about. They lacked a call to action. Overlap ended and I headed to another retreat, this one in Asheville, North Carolina. As always, there were several books on sales. This planted a seed.

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