Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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2.0 is a philosophy, not a technology

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Social Blogs (written/ video). Social Micro-blogging. Social Collaborative writing. Social Websites? Social Books? Social Collaborative projects. Social Wikis. Social Web jams.

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Under the radar: great technologies you could be using

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Write a blog? Google Docs/collaborative writing. blogs , one of which is home to this page. Backnoise for back channel, to get more conversations going. Go here to take part. Poll : Jane’s Top 100 List. RSS Reader. YouTube, SlideShare. Skype/Instant messaging. Learner redefined. Prospering in community with others.

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Informal Snake Oil

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

“As soon as the software vendors and marketers get hold of a good idea, they pretty well destroy it,&# writes my colleague Harold Jarche in his post on Social Snake Oil. Instead of email, you get blogs and wikis tacked on. This is akin to saying that word processors write novels: it’s hardly the whole story.

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Blogging to show off your organization

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Great article in the NY Times about student blogging at MIT. High school students read the blogs, and they come in and say ‘I can’t believe Haverford students get to do such interesting things with their summers,’ ” he said. Students get off on the blogging: M.I.T. Students get off on the blogging: M.I.T.

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Shifting from push to pull

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Related: The Big Shift Blog at Harvard Business Publishing. FYI, I recently discovered that John Seely Brown was talking about learningscapes years before I started writing about Learnscapes in 2004. 2007, the Year of Pull. Push and Pull. Great minds… and all that.

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Favorite 2009 posts on Informal Learning Blog

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Here are the most popular posts on the Informal Learning Blog in 2009. Help me write the next installment. Business Impact of Social and Informal Learning. T o implement social/informal learning infrastructure projects, learning and development professionals need to shift their focus from learning to earning. They needn’t worry.