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Leave Learning to Employees, sort of

Jay Cross

Kaplan set up a wiki that has proved very successful. They tag wiki entries with an approval rating which strikes me as controlling but maybe not. Better that CLOs focus on creating ecosystems that support learning, knowledge-sharing, and social interaction.

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Dropbox

Jay Cross

Here’s something I’ve never seen before on a Pro account of anything: This is like having a private, omniscient wiki. Tags: Miscellaneous. I just upgraded to 50 GB of storage for $99/year. Sign up here.

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Showing the value of social media

Jay Cross

Draw analogies to what other companies have accomplished with social media: Large company implements an organizational wiki informally. Tags: Metrics of improving organizational learning. If there’s not an obvious, believable, significant business outcome, pick another project. Social media generally delivers astounding returns.

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How to Design Social Interfaces

Jay Cross

Check out the book’s wiki to see what I mean. Tags: Design. When my electrician cut my power at 9:30 am and didn’t restore it until 2:30 pm, I used my time off the grid to dig in. The book draws on the logic, organization, and faith of Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language. Designing Social Interfaces.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Profile should contain photo, position, location, email address, expertise (tagged so it’s searchable). Wikis – for writing collaboratively, eliminating multiple versions of documents and email, keeping information out in the open, eliminating unnecessary email, and sharing responsibility for updates and error correction.

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Changing Cultures in Higher Education

Jay Cross

The message is cool: More and more educational scenarios and learning landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, podcasts and e-portfolios. Tags: Entertainment Just Jay. It’s good to see that Springer is maintaining its sense of humor. Don’t get me wrong. And the book? I have’t started to read the book yet.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

An unexpected surprise has been the enthusiastic adoption of the wiki by even the least Web 2.0 Vander Wal, who coined the term “folksonomy,” focuses on the huge untapped potential for social tools with discussions about making it easier for enterprise social tool adoption, tagging, getting tools to mesh, modifying Web 2.0

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