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I recently set up Social.Media.Coaches – as a sister site of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) website – to address the growing demand for support in the use of social media in the workplace – whether it be for learning, working or marketing.
We offer:
Please take a look at the Social-Media-Coaches.com website to find out more. You can keep up to date with our activities through email, RSS, our Twitter account and/or Facebook page - you’ll find all the relevant links on the right-hand side.
Unpredictability, volatility, and information glut are the new normal for twenty-first century CLOs. Grappling with blazing-fast change requires a new vocabulary. Here are a few phrases from a CLO survival guide written by Jay Cross (and extracted from the Working Smarter Fieldbook) you may find useful.
Beta. Not ready for final release. Still buggy. Life is perpetual beta.
Free-range learner. Someone who learns as he or she chooses. Often discovery learning.
Learning. Work.
Performance. The goal of learning. AKA productivity, results. It’s relative to context. Decide what constitutes performance, then design the learning to support it.
Social Learning. What eLearning was supposed to be
Work. Learning.
Working Smarter. Executives rail against informal learning; I’ve yet to find one who is not interested in having people work smarter.
Want some more glossary terms? Visit the full Working Smarter Glossary posting at the Internet Time Alliance Blog
LinkedIn have just announced they have reached 100 million members worldwide. – and also shared this infographic with key statistics.
via www.c4lpt.co.uk
My work involves helping people and organisations with new thinking around workplace learning. For many this means a big change in the way they do things. I am therefore very interested in helping them make this change more manageable.
I have recently been reading a book called “Switch: How to change things when change is hard” by Chip and Dan Heath. [Available at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com] which takes a new look at how change happens and how we can make it manageable.
You can hear Dan Heath (at Fast Company) talk a little about this in the video below, but here’s a brief excerpt:
“Any time change feels daunting, we’ll try to dodge it. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about personal change or organizational change or societal change. In situations like this, where the change feels too big, we’ve got to shrink it, so it feels more manageable.”
I’m going to be using the concept of “shrink the change” in my work to help organizations work and learn smarter – that is how to make small, quick and easy changes and get big wins – so more to come on this.
I’ve just finished a webinar for the UK-based Learning & Skills Group. The script for my presentation together with images of the slides I used can be found here: 10 steps for working smarter with social media
Free Webinar: Wednesday, March 30 at 6 PM (GMT) / 1 PM (EDT) / 10 AM (PDT) /
Do you have burning questions about social learning, web 2.0 and working smarter? Want to find out how other organizations are grappling with the culture, politics and governance of implementing informal learning?
The five members of Internet Time Alliance – Jay Cross, Jane Hart, Charles Jennings, Harold Jarche, Clark Quinn – will answer your questions and provide real-life examples.
Ask us a question or suggest a topic. There are 5 free copies of the Working Smarter Fieldbook to be given away to six people who leave a suggestion on the Internet Time Alliance blog.
Yesterday I launched the Social Learning Community – a new Community of Practice intended for those interested in the use of social media to work and learn smarter. This is a place where you can join discussions, ask questions, share links, experiences and events with others about social learning – whether it be in education or in the workplace. Jay Cross calls it “the living room for social learning conversations”!
Whether or not you agree with the term “digital native” and what it stands for, this is an interesting infographic - from the Voxy Blog (where you can find full details of how to embed it on your blog).
Because of the proliferation of new technologies, the younger generation today is outgrowing traditional forms of education – remember pencils, chalkboards, textbooks and graphing calculators? Whether we are in the car, on the train, at work, or in a classroom, mobile technology in particular is giving us the ability to learn on-the-go. See the infographic below to learn why we are wired for mobile learning, and how we can use mobile technologies to educate ourselves.
Via: Voxy Blog
I receive lots of emails from individuals as well as companies who have set up new e- or social learning businesses or produced new (or updated versions of) products/tools for education or workplace learning. Unfortunately, I am not always able to review them all individually, but today I thought I would briefly mention five different resources that I’ve recently been emailed about:
Email: jane.hart@C4LPT.co.uk
Twitter: @C4LPT
Facebook page: C4LPT
