Jay Cross

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2010

Jay Cross

Take advantage of convergence of informal learning and social networks. What predictions do you have for the year? The Big Question. What are your biggest challenges for this upcoming year? Make the case for learnscapes in HBR, CIO, other management arenas. Become a tip-top webinar leader and public speaker.

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What About the Future?

Jay Cross

They do not predict what’s to come. This is social business. Make your social networks thrive. Some people predict the end of jobs and corporations as we know them. “Scenarios are stories about the future, but their purpose is to make better decisions in the present” – Scenarios: an explorer’s guide, Shell.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Training was simpler when the world was predictable, progress was slow, and the task was teaching people how to do their jobs. Social software facilitates conversation. Chatter, Jive, Socialcast, Yammer, Podio, and other social networking systems simplify listening in and joining purposeful conversations.

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Summarizing Learn for Yourself

Jay Cross

Sharing is an act of learning and can be considered your responsibility for the greater social learning contract. Most of what we learn, we learn by interacting with others.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

The 50,000 foot view of what’s going on in social networks and informal learning has changed very little In the last five years. The cc: line in email, according to Boyd, could be considered the lowest form of using software for social networking. It’s your network. Social software makes this happen.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Hierarchies work well when the future is predictable and things aren’t prone to change. rms, and sometimes even provide leads for new business. Many alumni are future customers. The Extended Enterprise.

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Dust-up at Training Zone

Jay Cross

But of all the many options for learning, which one do I choose : do I work with an expert, do I want to find it on Google or talk to my friends in the pub, or social network? with its wikis, blogs and social networks is that people learn as they would through natural conversation and dialogue. Nicky Adams , 26-Nov-08.