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Exploring medical technologies

Learning with e's

Indeed, my top three all-time cited academic publications are: Wikis, blogs and podcasts : A new generation of web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education (2006) The emerging Web 2.0 The rest, as they say, is history.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

remains a contested label for new and emergent properties that are found on the Web. Debate focuses on whether the emerging social applications constitute a sea change or revolution in the Web (cf. Social software is software that enables people to both read from, and write onto web spaces. Maramba, I.

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World Health 2.0

Learning with e's

It's one of a suite of papers Maged Boulos and I have been working on with colleagues around the world over the last 3 years, and this one is particularly exciting because it shows how to harness Web 2.0 tools, mashups and aggregators to predict localised social trends such as flu epidemics. Keywords: Social Web; Web 2.0;

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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

Identifying these parameters up front will help organizations identify which types of coaching and mentoring programs are best suited for their organizations. Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs.

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What Universities Must Learn About Social Networks

Jay Cross

THE ISSUE IS NOT whether you are going to become a socially networked university but how soon. Businesses are being transformed into social businesses. Social business is the flavor of the day in the C-suites of the Fortune 500. Facilitating the emergence of collective social capital and limiting duplication of effort.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Most workers have better connections to the Internet and social software at home than on the job. Corporate learning must follow suit. If your company is becoming a social business, installing social networks, and experimenting with collaborative culture, your train has already left the station.