Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

My thanks to Mark Oelhert (our counselor at Social Learning Camp ) for helping me sharpen my focus. From: to… Related posts: What is informal learning? Excerpt from Informal Learning : Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

How do you cost-justify social learning initiatives? Social learning is no different from other business investments. Social media generally delivers astounding returns. Draw analogies to what other companies have accomplished with social media: Large company implements an organizational wiki informally. Improve service?

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I am really looking forward to attending the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning in Barcelona next month! Different designs, tools and functionalities of social learning networks will be evaluated.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 4, 2010

Designing Social Interfaces. I have a better vision of the forest because the book explains a lot about its trees. Take a look at the pattern of Identity or Personal Dashboard to grok what this way of thinking is about.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Understanding Corporate Twitter , a post from an employee of EMC, got me thinking about the role of corporate culture in implementing the social learning platforms I’ve been calling learnscapes. We have an extended core of “social people&# at EMC. They participate vigorously on the internal social platform.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizaiotns Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth by Rob Cross and Robert J. This sequel to Rob Cross’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks is chock full of practical advice on leveraging networks for innovation and increased performance.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Driving Results Through Social Networks: How Top Organizaiotns Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth by Rob Cross and Robert J. This sequel to Rob Cross’s The Hidden Power of Social Networks is chock full of practical advice on leveraging networks for innovation and increased performance.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2008

Harnessing the Power of Social Applications. People are connecting with one another in increasing numbers, thanks to blogs, social networking sites like MySpace, and countless communities across the Web. Some companies are learning to turn this growing groundswell to their advantage. Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 31, 2010

Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud , this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 Social media for collaboration…110. The January 2010 Edition of Working Smarter was released today. technology. The hardcopy version of Working Smarter costs $19.98. Rethinking Learning in Organizations…30.

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Informal Learning Informal Social Pattern 47

Jay Cross

JULY 15, 2011

This is a compelling presentation on many levels. There’s a hell of a lot of content packed into a 4 1/2 minute presentation. The message itself is compelling: listen up, Mr. Executive, you could have your own United Breaks Guitars nightmare. And the presentation is captivating; I couldn’t take my eyes off it.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang was kind enough to send me his slides from yesterday’s session on Social Media: Hype vs. Reality at Online Marketing World. Here are six levels of participation in social media. I have tweaked the presentation of the information but the findings are Forrester’s. Here’s the picture in the U.S.,

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Associação Industrial Portuguesa, Creative Learning Conference, Lisbon, October 2011.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. ” They understand the power of weak ties in enterprise social networks. Sure, there are fears of losing control, the fact that hierarchy and social networks are not comfortable bedfellows, and the inevitable paradigm drag.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations. Bear in mind that all learning is part informal/part formal and part social/part solo.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Social networks have become the fabric of the high tech industry. They gain privacy by controlling the social situation. People go to those institutions for social networking. This has gotten messier now with social media. As you build skills, how to you build social networks and relationships?

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

What Universities Must Learning About Social Networks. Increasingly, businesses are looking to more social approaches to employee learning and development. THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. In Memoriam: Tim M.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2012

Experience has taught us that making over a training department into a business learning function requires these activities: Sell the vision of learning as a value-creating component of social business. assess opportunity by benchmarking against emergent practices of successful social businessesLay the foundation for transformation.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2013

Social Learning Handbook by Jane Hart. The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross. Engaging Learners by Clark Quinn. The Connected Company by Dave Gray.

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Culture Corporate eLearning Organization Change 75

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Social Networks Social Network Diversity Training Cognitive 59

Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2011

TechCrunch reports that “Social enterprise giant Jive is releasing a study today, called the Jive Social Business Index, which surveyed 902 US-?based based executives at large and mid-sized companies on their views of social in the enterprise. Social networks are the carrier wave of corporate conversations.

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Social Networks Jive Social Network Enterprise 59

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2012

Today’s common wisdom is that most workplace learning is experiential, unplanned, social, and informal. People trying to figure everything out all out by themselves are whizzing their way to overload and breakdown; collective wisdom and social filters are the only way to keep up. Informal learning tops many training department agendas.

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Social Networks MySpace Social Network Ratio 62

Jay Cross

AUGUST 21, 2013

The first was the average social perceptiveness of the group members. We measured social perceptiveness in this case using a test developed essentially to measure autism. It is also important to realize that this gender effect is largely statistically mediated by the social perceptiveness effect. See on edge.org. Just Jay'

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

Sharing is an act of learning and can be considered your responsibility for the greater social learning contract. Not only does it confirm the significant frequency of informal learning, it demonstrates that informal learning shows up in many ways: e-Learning, traditional book study, social learning, and experience.”

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Social Networks Wiki Summary Social Network Analysis 36

Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2011

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , March 20, 2010. Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point - Ross Dawson , August 30, 2010. Twitter as a professional development tool - Social Media for Working & Learning , November 30, 2010.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2008

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Jay Cross

JULY 31, 2012

In my recent webinar presentation for the LSG online conference, Using a collaboration platform for brilliant learning , rather than giving a PowerPoint presentation, I took the participants on a web tour of the Social Learning Centre. Contributors to the (social) design phase will be entitled to a discount on the workshop fee! _.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The underlying concept is that organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. In his next post , Harold wrote that “All three of these structures are united by networked and social learning.

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Organization Social Networks Communities of Practice Sun 84

Jay Cross

JUNE 13, 2012

Next month I’ll be offering an experiential workshop on Informal Learning through Jane Hart’s Social Learning Center. Network socially with Socialcast, Buddypress, GoToMeeting, Google+. experience learning hands-on through collaborative work, community, search, social software, blogs and tweets. with Jay Cross.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2012

They have set up social networks for alumni and help them keep up with new developments. Workers value social learning (collaboration, networking, and conversations) and informal learning (community membership, Internet search, blogs, curated content, and self-study). Think social technologies, not training technologies.

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Collaborative Learning Collaboration Compliance Training Social Networks 61

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Lots of French vendors are touting social learning although they no more get it than American LMS providers promising systems to manage informal learning. One outfit here claimed to deliver social learning experiences on CD-ROM. Buzzwords travel from the U.S. to France incredibly fast. Catalog of courses?

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Jay Cross

JULY 30, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more.

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Social Networks Case Study Doc MySpace 47

Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2011

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. MoveOn Co-Founder Talks Social Networking - Jay Cross , May 31, 2011. How social media and big data will unleash what we know - Dion Hinchcliffe , May 12, 2011. Social learning for collaborative work - Harold Jarche , May 18, 2011.

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Social Networks Information Overload Social Media PENS 58

Jay Cross

JUNE 17, 2013

Learning is social. Most of the value of organizations derives from Social Capital. Were you able to deconstruct an organization into molecules of social capital, you’d have: human capital – the know-how of the workforce. Teach people the least they need know to tackle things on their own. .

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