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Time to Sing Loud

CLO Magazine

Whitacre’s seven virtual choirs have featured 8,000 singers from 120 countries, earning more than 40 million views on YouTube and performance spots at the 2012 London Olympics, the Kennedy Center and a live virtual choir performance streamed via Skype at the 2013 TED conference. It is an exhilarating time for chief learning officers.

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A learner and a teacher at heart

CLO Magazine

In initial screening interviews, which happened over Skype as Sullivan was based in Seattle at the time, Butters was immediately impressed. Butters knew she’d found her CLO. The learning also had to fit with the company’s unique culture, so generic or off-the-shelf content probably wouldn’t work.

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

But, as knowledge workers, we now have email, Slack, Dropbox or Google Drive, and Skype that have collapsed virtual separation. Unfortunately, the culture at this new company still only supports in-house employees. Company culture may shy away from using contractors.

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

According to a December 2011 issue of Business Insider, the mobile apps analytics firm Distimo said many popular apps were games such as Angry Birds, social networking such as Facebook, Skype and Twitter, and other content such as Google Maps and iBooks. These apps focus on specific content such as playing a game or buying a book.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Skype gives people the ability to place free video calls over the Net. Clark Quinn and I found that less than 40 percent of CLOs are involved in corporate decisions about communities of practice, social networks, content repositories, wikis and Internet access.

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Building the Leader of the Future

CLO Magazine

Leaders must embrace an entrepreneurial approach and help to create a culture that fosters collaboration, candor, empowerment, influence and action,” she said. Most of the leaders we have today have probably grown up in the culture where you were the glorious leader who was supposed to show the way, know all the answers and always be right.”.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Skype /jaycross. The scope of the job of the CLO is mushrooming. CLOs will neither prosper nor even survive if they fail to take responsibility for the overall learning process within their organizations. Internet Culture. Culture, soft of. Presentation at AACE , PowerPoint is Tyranny. Facebook /Jay Cross.