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From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”

Jane Hart

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Activity streams. Member profiling. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions. Group spaces.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Serving enterprise customers. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. Activity streams keep people informed in near real time. Workers share discoveries and resources. Successful corporations are becoming extended enterprises.

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Podcast – Making Indian Product Global

Disprz

I was always a startup guy, never an enterprise or a corporate guy. And again, smartphones were taking off, and enterprise apps were taking off. Why not build an enterprise SaaS company that helps learning and skill-building become more exciting and fun in the workplace? So that’s how we started Dispz in 2015. We were not.

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Ten years after

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Only relatively few people at the top needed to be creative, imaginative and enterprising. Most workers had to be good only at performing highly precise, structured and repetitious tasks necessitating a high degree of discipline but little or no personal initiative. Knowledge is power. When does freezing water turn to ice?

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SMBs and Social Learning Technologies

Janet Clarey

Noted main difference between main stream media and social media. information/knowledge workers. Social bookmarking in the enterprise. I used Urban Dictionary definition as of yesterday…and to illustrate a participatory online dictionary (which, BTW, is often NSFW but a heck of a lot of fun in my opinion).