His pioneering work in networks has a history that extends well beyond current hype in social networks. In my work with connectivism, I’ve found Wellman’s work insightful, relevant, and more informed than the often shallow network conversations now occurring. He said his research required long lead times and data analysis…and sharing in “transition data” could be misleading. I am a big fan of Barry Wellman . I

My previous post discussed the Open/Closed culture fallacy in social business design. Overall, as the post's subject indicates, my interest is in showing how social network analysis, applied to the ecosystems of organizations, can assist us in applying social business design in a manner that avoids the fallacy of open/closed business cultures. ...Tags: Tags: Collaboration Customer Experience Experience Design Innovation Social Networks business culture community-based I contended that leaders of large corporations are typically unable

Kevin Jones and I did our “Overcoming Top 10 Objections to Social Learning” webinar earlier this week, and it was a total blast.  Tags: Community Social Learning Social Media Social Network Analysis Talent Management Wisdom of Crowd Great conversation with participants via chat; lots of great back and forth with Kevin. If you weren’t able to make it, the archive is below - slides and audio. 

Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Overcoming Top 10 Objections to Social Learning - Social Enterprise Blog , April 24, 2009 Ten commandments of e-learning (content design) - Clive on Learning , April 30, 2009 Twitter Learning - eLearning Technology , April 30, 2009 Learning Goals - eLearning Technology , April 29, 2009 An eight-step process using Post-it notes to gain meeting consensus. - Business Casual , April 25, 2009 Fantastic File Converter - eLearning Acupuncture , April 24, 2009 Call for eLearning Demonstrations

eLearning Learning Hot List June 1, 2009 to June 12, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) - Jonathan's ID , June 5, 2009 Mistakes made in Academic Blogs - Don't Waste Your Time , June 3, 2009 New online book on mobile learning -available for free download - Ignatia Webs , June 12, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design 12: the ICARE Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 11, 2009 Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better - Learning Visions

Social Learning is like that, good finders are just as valued as good creators. “I This phenomenon is almost certainly  true for all sorts of discourse, not just social media, but I think maybe social media amplifies the effect.  Tags: Community Social Learning Social Media Social Network Analysi Many moons ago I wrote a post about attribution in a web 2.0 and the need to ruthlessly cite and attribute, not just to give credit to the original author, but to provide a way for your audience to dig deeper. 

It’s shaping up to be something pretty special, basically a half-day workshop on social learning and the use of social media / networking within overall learning strategy. Bill Cava of Ektron is covering the basic history of social media and networking.  Ill be introducing social learning models, drawing on the work of Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, and of course On Wednesday, May 20th, I’m going to be presenting at an ASTD / ISPI event at Babson College.  I’m the second presenter. 

Say you were looking to find some news about Mzinga’s Social Learning Suite.  Tags: Elearning Social Learning Social Media Social Network Analysis Talent Management Wisdom of Crowd For some time now, I’ve been aware of a couple of projects that Tony Karrer has put together:  eLearning Learning and HR Tech Central .  On the surface, it may seem that these sites are just rollups of the blogs of experts within their repsective industries. 

Yet, on the learning side, we know from research that 80% of the knowledge and skills people use everyday on the job comes from informal and social learning, not from the formal stuff we have made. Often the most critical “connectors” or information channels in an organization are the folks at the lowest level of the org, including administrative folks and secretaries, because our organizational networks are too silo’ed, too fragmented, and too hierarchical. Yesterday, I shared some initial thoughts from the Bersin show.  As I was driving home from the airport

Krebs talked about  emergent networks and social network analysis. As i’m a plain newbie to this subject of social network analysis i also used Wellman’s presentation on networks for newbies . Krebs explained social network analysis as follows: “Social Network Analysis [SNA] is a mathematical and visual analysis of relationships / flows / influence between people, groups, organizations, computers or other information/knowledge processing Last Wednesday Valdis Krebs gave a guest lecture at the CCK08 elluminate meeting.