Jay Cross

DECEMBER 31, 2011

You can keep up with George, who first came up with the LearnTrends concept, on his blog www.elearnspace.org/blog or Twitter @gsiemens. Stay current with Tony at www.elearninglearning.com or Twitter @elearningPosts. You can find me at [link] and [link] or Twitter @jaycross/alliance. Have a great 2012! Jay, George, and Tony.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2011

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - Social Media for Working & Learning , March 20, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles - Tony Karrer , March 24, 2010. ID – Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world?

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Enterprise 2.0 Social Networks Wiki Social Media 51

Jay Cross

AUGUST 11, 2010

I did not want to like paper.il, the new, personal Twitter aggregater. Nonetheless, it is so easy to set up, I filled in the blank with my Twitter list of Internet Time Alliance colleagues. Twitter /jaycross. Just more clutter, I thought to myself. Our Daily Tweet-news. Facebook /Jay Cross. Linkedin /internettime.

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Friendfeed Social Networks Social Bookmarking Twitter 44

Jay Cross

AUGUST 31, 2012

My ten, in no particular order, are: Twitter. This could be a tool you use for teaching, training or creating learning content/solutions for others, and/or a tool you use for your own personal or professional learning. Google Hang-Outs. Scoop.it (for curation). My aggregator (WorkingSmarterDaily).

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Jane : don’t let the boss loose with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and a Smart Phone. Q&A: Etiquette on Twitter: don’t be an asshole. DevLearn ended on a high note: Richard Culatta, Cammy Bean, Aaron Silvers, Ellen Wagner, and Gina Schreck in serial Pecha Kucha. Richard : games, not courses. Fun comes from mastery.

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DevLearn Social Networks Pedagogy Social Network 51

Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2011

List of the top 100 Twitter cities in the world - Ross Dawson , June 6, 2011. On my 3rd Twitter birthday: 7 reasons Twitter is central to my life - Ross Dawson , June 20, 2011. Social media & learning – note taking on steroids - Donald Clark Plan B , June 20, 2011. PKM Updated - Harold Jarche , June 7, 2011. Why Social?

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Social Media PKM Enterprise 2.0 IBM 47

Jay Cross

JANUARY 4, 2011

Auto-save favorite Tweets / (Annotated) Twitter-This. If you are a Twitter fan, use “Save Favorite Tweets&# to allow you to save your favorite tweets to Diigo and (Annotated) “Twitter This” to tweet selective links as you bookmark. Cross platforms support.

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Jay Cross

MAY 1, 2011

I heard the news on Twitter, twenty minutes before things were official. Osama is dead. The jungle drums that are today’s web worked! I got the news before most t.v. And I’m tuning out now because television has reverted to continuous reverb. Pundits trying to fill dead air with non-news. I’m off to find the next story.

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Jay Cross

JULY 6, 2009

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - HarvardBusiness.org , June 1, 2009. Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - HarvardBusiness.org , June 5, 2009. Twitter Drives Traffic, Sales: A Case Study - OReilly Radar , February 19, 2009. Poll Everywhere : Use Twitter in PowerPoint , May 27, 2009.

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Social Networks Google Wave Social Network Analysis Twitter 43

Jay Cross

AUGUST 2, 2013

From this foundation , we explore communities of practice, capturing and disseminating news, knowledge sharing at Intel, experiential learning at Xerox, conversation at HP, volunteerism at SAP, Twitter at Deloitte, product knowledge at BT, and learning from microblogs.

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Informal Learning Informal SAP Internet 70

Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

It looks very cool, displaying little animated buttons for Twitter, F’book, Google+, and so on. I just installed a WordPress Plugin from Sharaholic named SexyBookmarks. This is a test post to see how well it works. How we learn… in five minutes. “Around the age of 12, the brain goes through the equivalent of an earthquake.”

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

TwitterSheep draws a tag cloud from the profiles of people who follow you on Twitter. Of course, you can look over the tag clouds of other Twitterers, too. Mine is a good fit with my own self image. Birds of a feather? Try to match the person with the clouds below: Tony Karrer. Britney Spears. George Siemens.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

TwitterSheep draws a tag cloud from the profiles of people who follow you on Twitter. Of course, you can look over the tag clouds of other Twitterers, too. Mine is a good fit with my own self image. Birds of a feather? Try to match the person with the clouds below: Tony Karrer. Britney Spears. George Siemens.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Yammer is like a private Twitter. Instead of Twitter’s question, “What are you doing?&# , Yammer asks “What are you working on?&#. Related: Enterprise Twitter If you’re assembling a far-flung collaborative team or bringing together a community of practice, here’s a way to help people stay connected.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

Currently, the top tools are Twitter, Delicious, Google Reader, Google Docs, and SlideShare. The list compiles the Top 10 lists of 195 learning professionals. It’s a fantastic resource. Two years back, the most popular tools were Firefox, Delicious, Google Search, Skype, and PowerPoint. Jay’s Top Ten. Google Reader. Google Search.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Google Plus and Twitter – How They Work for Me Hand in Hand - Luis Suarez , August 1, 2011. Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on the future of Twitter - Ross Dawson , August 10, 2011. George Siemens – if social media goes so does connectivism - Donald Clark Plan B , August 2, 2011.

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Social Networks Social Media Social Network Network 50

Jay Cross

AUGUST 28, 2010

Twitter , Daily , Amplify. Flows are invariably pulled. Flows : The babbling brook of new information and news: Internet Time Blog & history. Informal Learning Blog. Informal Flow. Jay’s Learnstream. Stocks , more timeless information, wisdom, and relationships. jaycross.com homepage. Del.icio.us. Jay’s Launchpad.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Several of our speakers list their Twitter accounts on our site so check them out here and be sure to follow any whose sessions you plan to attend. Back-channel: “Follow us before you get to the event at @kmworld and be sure to use #kmworld in your tweets from the conference. Be a part of the online conversation!”

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

Stoos Network on Twitter. More Ideas for Jumpstarting the Transformation of Management (Forbes). The Stoos Network. Starting ideas. The Stoos Network on LinkedIn. The invitation to Stoos. A great summary of the Stoos Gathering from Steve Denning. Steve Denning is many people’s favorite thought leader in the “Stoos Space.”

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Jay Cross

MARCH 30, 2010

One of the things I like best about Twitter is the collegial, friendly fire-ish banter among L & D professionals. As I said on Twitter one night, “I am 93.2% You can also find Jay on Twitter @jaycross, where he’s a frequent participant in the weekly Thursday night #lrnchat sessions that I help moderate. By Jane Bozarth.

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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. And so, when Twitter (or whatever) comes along, there’s really no need for us to do anything.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I’ll give periodic reports here for those who have yet to adapt to the Twitterization of events. If history is a guide, a similar number will visit the discussion boards or listen to the recordings. (We We are recording everything.). You could just follow the tags.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If we had a real-time twitter feed, I’d feel more engaged. Common properties: simple components (or agents) relative to entire system. components react in non-linear ways. no central point of control/self-organizing. emergent behaviors — collective outputs of whole systems. My mind feels like it’s in slow-motion.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2009

Tracking where you’re mentioned is tougher now that conversation on the web takes place on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and numerous other flows. Twitter /jaycross. Before social media got hot, you could use simple search engines to see what people were saying about you, for example: Google “Jay Cross&#. SocialMention.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Harold asked himself, “What is it I actually do?&#. “Sorting&# means filtering one’s sources. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. “Retrieving&# is recall.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

For a few years, the Learning Circuits Blog was our learning community’s early substitute for Twitter. [And have no fear: For those looking for an older post, the LC Blog will remain live with all its content intact.]. The vocal folks built their online reputations there.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 28, 2012

Twitter had not been born. Six years ago I wrote Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance. The book came out before iPhones and iPads. Facebook was only available to students. eLearning was still haled as a panacea. Andy McAfee had just coined the term Enterprise 2.0,

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Informal Learning Informal Enterprise 2.0 iPhone 48

Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Tweetsmap plots your Twitter followers on a map of the world: Do it. It only takes a minute. On a live version of your map, you can click to get the absolute number of followers instead of %s. I wouldn’t put too much stuck in the details.

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Social Networks Social KM LinkedIn 43

Jay Cross

JANUARY 28, 2011

companies like Twitter and Diigo, do-it-yourself enablers like Jambok or SpacedEd, providers of lightweight web tools like Rypple, performance consultancies like TULSER, and so forth.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 21, 2009

That’s where I find information on what’s happening; often it’s some place I’ve been directed to by Twitter. Neither piece looks at information in the blogosphere. Related: Top 99 Workplace Learning Blogs. OED list of top 100 education blogs. Jay’s learning research page.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 27, 2015

One reader complained, saying “I thought this was a blog about L&D.” ” Well, no, my blog covers whatever grabs my attention and that’s less and less about L&D. I learn new things every day, following the links offered up by the 250 people I follow. I have 9,000 followers who provide feedback or answer my questions.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Which countries have the most Twitter users per capita? - Ross Dawson , February 7, 2012. Workforce collaboration in the network era - Harold Jarche , February 23, 2012. Thinking together - Harold Jarche , February 10, 2012. What’s hip in learning in France - Jay Cross , February 1, 2012.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2015

Use Twitter as a backchannel for communications. Don’t spend time talking about ideas or initiatives you know you won’t take action on. Good practices: Appoint a recorder. Collaboration rules. Perhaps sit in a circle — or stand up! Diversity is good. Encourage it. Solve the problem before departing. Leave as soon as the problem is solved.

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Jay Cross

MAY 31, 2011

List of the top 100 Twitter influencers in Australia - Ross Dawson , May 31, 2011. Best of Working Smarter Daily. May 1, 2011 to May 31, 2011. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. CERT and performance support - Clark Quinn , May 31, 2011. Monday Video – Doodling - Nancy White , May 31, 2011.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

At the turn of the century, blogging was brand spanking new, Twitter had yet to be born, and backchannels referred to espionage by double agents. Curation enriches conferences. Back then I tried to capture and share what was going on in lengthy blog posts. For example, here’s my report on Elliott’s TechLearn 2001.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

VIDEO] The flow of Twitter around the world - Ross Dawson , November 15, 2011. On Secret Handshakes and Making the World a Better Place with ID - Ellen Wagner , November 15, 2011. MOOCs and the OPAL Quality Clearinghouse - Stephen Downes: Half an Hour , November 20, 2011. My Scariest Graph - Andy McAfee , November 17, 2011.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

If you take part in Thursday evenings’ #lrnchat on Twitter, you can skip the sections on traditional design; you have already witnessed the ADDIE wars. They move on to architecture and archetypes. Everyone will want to read the nine cases which demonstrate a variety of learning environments.

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