Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Search me

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Similar Site Search reads one site’s tags and proceeds to find sites like it. Tags: tools. Of course, I could always do this.

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Handy free online tools

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here are some of the tools I added to my repertoire of handy freebies in 2009. Egoboo tools help you find yourself, you narcissist. Similar Site searches for sites with similar content to yours. Tags: Tools. Activity streams are sort of in between Twitter and Blogs. Alltop aggregates headlines around any topic.

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Under the radar: great technologies you could be using

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Smart Search, e.g. Informal Learning Flow. Research page is a starting point for feeds, searches, and proven destinations. Delicious tools for shared bookmarks. Aggregation. Tony Karrer. Activity streams, e.g. Jay’s FriendFeed. FriendFeed. Jay’s Tumblr. Jay’s learning ecosystem. Collaboration.

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What will change in 2010?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Just as the Google Search Appliance enables companies to find needles in haystacks behind their firewalls, Wave is likely to replace lots of wikis and content management systems. As Moore’s Law fuels ever-faster computing and communication, the one-size-fits-all inefficiencies of a universal tool like a Swiss Army Knife become trivial.

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July Informal Learning Hotlist

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 – July Update , July 10, 2009. Enterprise Friendly Social Network Dashboard PeopleBrowsr Launches Real-Time Search , July 10, 2009. Must-Have Google Search Tricks , July 7, 2009. Search Wars: Twitter Versus Google , July 9, 2009. Can Groups Be Taught to Resolve Their Own Inadequacies?

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Informal learning patterns

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Users navigate via search. New Collaborative Tools for your Organization’s Toughest Challenges , is due out soon. Relevant data is in the cloud, so it doesn’t matter which device the user employs. Relevant data is stored locally at many devices, so it matters which device(s) the user has access to. Work is accomplished via the browser.

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Informal Learning Flow

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I rapidly tire of any single format, so I have been using a variety of tools to keep up with my favorite feeds: a river of news or Google reader or Pageflakes. FYI, these links and more adorn the top of my personal search & re-search page.) Related: Jay’s search and re-search page. eLearningLearning.