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Favourite Workplace Learning Blogs
don’t like creating “Top 50″ lists so here are my current favourite sources of information and knowledge about learning, especially for the networked business environment. Wirearchy by Jon Husband (CA)
Mark Sylvester US: Mark writes about social networks, working together, learning together and being together.
This list is a result of a series of tweets, initiated by Janet Clarey who referred to a Top 50 list of educational technology blogs. Shortly after that, Maria Anderson suggested that I create a list for workplace learning .
Learning and Working on the Web
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
PKM: a node in the learning network
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy , or, in other words, digital networks enable multiple connections, so organizational communications are no longer just vertical. Social learning is about getting things done in networks. Effective working in networks requires cooperation , meaning there is no plan, structure or direct feedback. Somebody else, outside the hierarchy, is only one click away, and perhaps easier to deal with and a better source of information and knowledge. This is becoming obvious in the business world and frameworks such as Social CRM (customer relationship management)
Learning and Working on the Web
- Sunday, March 7, 2010
Learning is what we will do for a living
When you have diverse connections in a network, learning almost cannot not happen. Networks literally become learning disabled if the connections become too homophilous and without learning, no innovation is possible.
whistle – but don’t tweet – while you work 54% of companies prohibit access to social networking sites for any reason via @charlesjennings
Some of the interesting things I learned on Twitter this week:
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century via @crazyquote
Learning and Working on the Web
- Friday, March 5, 2010
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Wirearchy in practice
So far, wirearchy as a managing framework for networked business and organizatons is the only one that makes sense to me, which is why it has a category of its own here.
“A dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results, enabled by interconnected people and technology”
while back, Jon Husband parsed wirearchy to see if it still made sense, and it does. A In looking at the parts of the framework; they are, for the most part, embraced by progressive organizations:
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Changing how people and organizations interact
Jon Husband has recently published a paper, What is wirearchy? In case this is a new term, the definition of wirearchy is posted on the top right of my site. see wirearchy as a framework for practitioners of such a new discipline as HOI.
Jon concludes his paper with the “Fundamental Sociology of Networked Knowledge Work”: In the paper, Jon starts with the origin of the framework:
In that context of ubiquitous impact, reams have been written about the erosion of the effectiveness of command-and control as the dominant model for leading and managing
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Co-operation for Networks
Stephen Downes took me to task for my suggestion that collaboration was the optimum type of group work in networks:
That’s why you see it in networks. In networks, the nature of the connection is important; it is not simply about quantity and mass …
You and I are in a network - but collaboration means ‘working together’. That’s why you see it in market economies.
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Work 2.0
are the wrong models for the emerging, networked workplace. and the resulting network effects have already changed in our workplaces:
Even when we change jobs or communities, we can now keep our social networks. Today, our social networks are an always-on connection to trusted friends and colleagues. I have little doubt that industrial management and all that it has created (chain of command, human resources, line & staff, production, etc.) This is a workplace with increasing numbers of free-agents and permanent employees who don’t have a job for life, especially
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Co-operation: from soft skill to hard skill
Work in networks requires different skills than in directed hierarchies, which have nurtured these CEO’s for the past decades. Co-operation is a foundational behaviour for effectively working in networks, and it’s in networks where most of us, and our children, will be working. Co-operation presumes the freedom of individuals to join and participate so that people in the network cannot be told what to do, only influenced. What are known as soft skills , like getting along with others, are becoming much more important than commonly known hard skills. This
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Sharing tacit knowledge
Global networks have made all of our work, and all of our problems, interconnected. Social networking supports emergent work practices. The true value of social networking is in sharing tacit knowledge.
Tags: Communities Wirearch H.L. Mencken , American satirist, wrote that, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
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A landscape of influences
The comment on influence networks echos of connectivism (just replace influence with learning):
Influence flows through networks – it cannot be understood as a linear mechanism focused on individual influencers. There are a number of key aspects of influence networks that need to be addressed to tap the power of influence.
More exciting pattern and sense-making from Ross Dawson, this time with the Influence Landscape Framework Beta v. 1 :
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Mind Map: The Networked Society
major theme in my writing has been our shift to a networked society and what that means in how we work and learn. This mind map links several concepts and related articles around the theme of the networked society:
Wirearchy
Over the years of writing this blog I’ve reorganized, added tags, categories and the Key Posts and Toolbox pages in order to help make sense of over 1,500 posts. A
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The business of information
You need to aggregate from your network and your suppliers in order to have access to just-in-time as well as just-in-case information. We can filter with the assistance of our subject matter networks – knowing who to ask about what and when.
Tags: Wirearch I have been discussing business models for information-based businesses and in those talks realized how Tim Kastelle’s Aggregate, Filter, Connect model makes good sense. If you’re in the information or knowledge business, which is any media company, then it’s exceptionally important to master each
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New roles for the networked workplace
Let’s face it, no professional can know everything and is dependent on others for knowledge and expertise, hence the growing need for effective networks in our work and learning. Our networks are becoming all-important in our work and this requires an attitude of openness and collaboration, not the norm in industrial corporations nor command and control organizations.
If you agree The best definition of a professional I’ve seen comes from David Williamson Shaffer, author of How computer games help children learn [not really about children] as:
anyone who
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