Jay Cross

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Jay Cross

A recent study of 600 resellers revealed a “high demand&# for a collaboration-software program called SharePoint. Intrigued (and unconvinced), I conducted my own informal and unscientific survey of 25 of my clients and asked them: 1) if they had ever heard of SharePoint; 2) what it actually does. I don’t blame these guys.

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LearnTrends Conference is no more

Jay Cross

We also conducted special events, e.g. a session on using Sharepoint to support learning and a 24-hour round-the-world marathon webinar. In 2007, 2008, and 2009, we hosted free online conferences to push the envelope in learning innovation. Thousands of people from around the world participated. We’re bidding adieu to 3,751 members.

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Snake Oil 2.0: Lipstick on a pig

Jay Cross

Dan Pontefract, over at TELUS , puts it succinctly: This is why we need to federate the LMS into the ‘collaboration’ platform, be it Jive, SharePoint, Connections, Confluence, whatever. This only serves to marginalize the training department even further.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. The social business juggernaut has arrived and the time to get on board is now.

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Working smarter

Jay Cross

Example: sharepoint. Example: Andy McAfee. Clicking on a topic or tool brings up the most popular articles on it. Example: collaboration. Use the search to see what this crowd has said about a topic. Click Change Edition up top and see what was hot last year or the year before. Example: 2006.

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Reflecting on my 2011

Jay Cross

Topics include Sharepoint, Jive, learning+working, rough drafts of articles, resource lists, and notes for various articles. I exported it from Pages into Word and ran Summarizer, reducing it to 18 pages. I found a lot of research notes associated with my big project in the beginning of the year.

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Go straight to the finish line

Jay Cross

Instead, learning is built into each project though a unique L&D workshop engagement model: Content is produced by experts on the project (facilitated by a learning consultant), published on the project SharePoint server, and the delivery medium decided by whether the content is conceptual or skills-focused.&#.