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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

Others show us the way, share their know-how, and help us make meaning of the world. We rely on colleagues and social networks to separate the signal from the noise; their advice makes our experiential learning productive. Activity streams, a “river of news,” are the lifeblood of today’s social networks. No one works alone.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

The world around corporate training has changed. What worked twenty years ago doesn’t work well in the social, always-on, networked world of business we now inhabit. Inexpensive alternative to training. Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job.