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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Organizations. Transformation happens at the boundaries of organizations, not the center. Transformation happens at the boundaries of organizations, not the center. Organizations are like LP records: the outer edge is moving fast but the center hardly moves at all. People are organizing by networks instead of groups.

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The Business Web

Tony Karrer

Simultaneously, companies like Google and Yahoo have announced their intention to compete against Microsoft Exchange by offering a version of their consumer email services repurposed for business. Gmail for Domains ([link] ) and Yahoo Business Email ( [link] ) are serious competitors to the traditional email server franchise.

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Aha Moments in 2007

Tony Karrer

and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited now. and unless you innovate ( Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning ) you are going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups. tools inside organizations. I started using del.icio.us Boy were they easy to use.

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, If you want to take advantage of lightweight social learning in your organization, activity streams are a vital area to keep your eye on. Wikipedia: nothing up yet

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Here are a few: Amazon’s Askville , Yahoo Answers , Answerbag , Gotta Mentor , BlurtIt , and WikiAnswers. Expressing and organizing your ideas in mind maps is another approach to expanding or changing your perspective. Scrapplet uses a drag and drop approach for mashing up content, particularly from social media sites.

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iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning

Xyleme

Home > Single Source , Standards > iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning March 25th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment I was on Nigel Paine’s blog on Friday when I saw and commented on his post The Mash-up Begins.

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Five Myths of Social Learning

Xyleme

While I could write an entire blog post on the reasons for this, I think Clark Quinn summarizes it quite nicely: “As work becomes more complex and the level of information explodes, speed-to-competence will depend on an organizations ability to allow learners to support themselves by tapping into the knowledge of others.”