Jay Cross's Informal Learning

APRIL 25, 2009

I am delighted to report that recordings of the April Learntrends sessions are online. After all, April Learntrends was an experiment in socially-mediated learning in lieu of traditional presentation. of conversari “to live with, keep company with,&# lit. Reflection is vital to learning. conversation. 1340, from O.Fr.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Clark Quinn and I led a discussion on Reinventing Organizational Learning at LearnTrends this morning. Chris 2: Agile networks require collaborative learning across companies. not company wide blogs. Sandy E: @Jenna - used to have a manager ask me "what have you done for your company today?" tmast: yeah. Is that key?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

A company that is more aware of its own information flow and network is more able to change. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends. Dag: Which movie to see -> your network; When does the movie start -> google. Changing contexts mean organizations need to be more able to change. Like Wirearchy.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 18, 2009

That is a measure of social learning within our company. Tags: Informal Learning Learning Communities learning learntrends ROI social learning social networks. When the poll question was I asked, I said we were doing nothing, but we actually did tally up how many comments we received from how many different people on our team blog.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Largest information company in the world. Thomas Reuters. Charles Jennings. 70/20/10: 80% of learning takes place outside of class. Learning through experience: 70%. Learning from others: 20%. Learning formally: 10%. Think of your major lessons. They weren’t formal, were they?

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Case Study LearnTrends Study Simulations 40

Jay Cross

OCTOBER 12, 2009

George Siemens , Tony Karrer , and I are pleased to announce the LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize products, projects, processes, and companies that represent interesting innovations in applying technology for Corporate / Workplace Learning and Performance.

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Tony Karrer

JANUARY 27, 2010

That certainly goes along with what we’ve done with LearnTrends and what’s going on with social learning. If you are working for a company that falls in the first category (no social media please), its better that you install a Twitter mobile app on your cell phone and not use the office computer at all for tweeting.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Definition (via Andrew McAfee ): the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers HR & Org Implication: Enterprise 2.0 The theme of LearnTrends 2009 is a term I call Convergence. definitions and the HR & Organizational impacts. is the use of Web 2.0

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Enterprise 2.0 Long Tail LearnTrends Firewalls 105

Tony Karrer

MAY 5, 2009

On May 21, LearnTrends will be hosting an eLearning Tour Event. His experience with technology companies and high-tech initiatives provides him with insights into the future of technology. This is designed to take you on a quick tour of different examples of what's happening out there.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 9, 2009

1 - "Self-Directed Learning" Increases Due to economic pressures, companies are going to reduce training budgets to a point where it doesn't make sense to create content on marginal topics. As far as companies who focus on creating strategies around eLearning 2.0 Companies are moving more slowly, but not really failing at it.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Marcia Conner , Fast Company’s learning columnist, will address Learning when the Money Runs Out. Tag your posts learntrends and your Tweets #learntrends. I’m interviewing Kevin Wheeler , the talent management guru, and the amazing Alvaro Fernandez , CEO of SharpBrains. Please join us. And tell your friends.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

These are my live blogged notes from Janet Clarey’s LearnTrends session on Microlearning. Very few companies have strategy for social media–many say it won’t work in their culture. Tags: Informal Learning Workplace Learning Janet Clarey learntrends. My side comments are in italics. not knowledge workers.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 6, 2009

Tony Karrer is orchestrating our next free LearnTrends event on these very questions. We’ll hear from CLOs, training company CEOs, analysts, and software vendors. Are LMS vendors headed down the trail blazed by record stores? Join us July 23, 9 AM – 1 PM Pacific Time / 4 PM – 8 PM GMT.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Is Here: Attitudes Meet Algorithms in Sentiment Analysis - Fast Company , September 18, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009. Company (1368). Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies , September 28, 2009. Your Employees Have No Clue What Your Company Does , September 3, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009.

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Social Networks LearnTrends Social Network Torrent 44

Jay Cross

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. Thoughts following April Learntrends. Y esterday, Learntrends hosted a series of online conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning. Look at Google and Cisco.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 15, 2009

Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. In other words, the stocks of public training companies would be down as compared to the market as a whole. And I don't see easy answers.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 2, 2010

companies, all of whom wish to remain anonymous. Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. This has me thinking about where companies should be placing their bets. LearnTrends faculty. Chair and CEO of Internet Time Alliance.

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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

MAY 3, 2009

LearnTrends and other efforts have been well received by the community but not without constructive feedback. Jay posts his own thoughts about April's LearnTrends event here. of conversari “to live with, keep company with,” lit. Let's start with Conversation: "conversation. 1340, from O.Fr. conversation, from L. com- intens.

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Janet Clarey

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Gina writes a variety of posts that include concepts, tools, companies, organizations and education. Best educational use of a social networking service: LearnTrends Online Conference on Ning (George Siemens, Tony Karrer, Jay Cross). Adventures in Corporate Education (Gina Minks) is neither of those.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Social technologies are transforming the way that people use the web and, with it, the way that companies engage with their customers and employees. LearnTrends 09 starts this coming Tuesday. Search is certainly being affected by the increasingly social nature of online activities. Our topic is convergence. DevLearn and KM World.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

After the LearnTrends conferences , I wait six weeks until I send out the evals. Medium-sized companies (1 to 10k employees) are getting on the band wagon around the world. It takes a while for the important lessons to emerge. In this case, I’ll recount what still seems important four days after DevLearn 2010. This will be huge.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. Most companies start simple, with a few people gathering together around an idea. For small companies, decision-making, task assignments and direct interaction with clients are rather straightforward. Force navigation. Assign people into roles. Technical Issues.

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Augmented Reality Blended Learning Social Learning Social 83

Xyleme

DECEMBER 3, 2009

And as Charles demonstrated with the Thomson-Reuters Learning Exchange during his session at LearnTrends , social networks are becoming the de-facto performance support platform for SMEs to deliver targeted information. For all others, it’s about one in four.

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