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Social Media Learning: how to integrate intellectual, working and human capital…

Origin Learning

Organizations globally, irrespective of size, are concentrating on how to connect intellectual (knowledge), working (money), and human (talent) capital effectively so that efficiency drives growth and brings in economic gains to the stakeholders. Can we not draw the same inference to social learning or social media learning?

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work. conduct useful research.

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Needed Skills for New Media

Tony Karrer

Henry was great at introducing the concepts of participatory culture - but he didn't really get into the implications of what this meant for all of us. I saw Henry Jenkins speak at the eLearningGuild's Annual Gathering and I must confess that I was a bit critical.

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Informal Learning 2.0

Jay Cross

approach sets the stage for broad cultural changes that strengthen the organization for the long term by enabling it to: • Maintain flexibility in the face of incessant change. In a networked corporation, there is scant difference between knowledge work and learning. . • Replacing bureaucracy through self-service.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The way organisations work today is almost unrecognisably different from the structured and closely-managed systems in pre-Internet and pre-ubiquitous connectivity times. They, themselves, expect immediacy and real-time responses. Innovation is their driver and change is accepted as the norm. You need to do it and learn from it’.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Leveraging Networks is Key Skill and the most important Knowledge Worker Skill Gap. Tools and Methods for Networks and Communities - Discusses specific tools and methods for using Networks and Communities as part of Knowledge Work.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Using Performance Results to Hire

Mark Oehlert

I think as "knowledge work" moves more toward free agency and companies continually seek to shed overhead, it is going to be the people who can highlight their work and who make a difference who are going to be hired quickly and easily and who will command the most money. From the land of Huh?