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From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how KnowledgeWorkers like to learn at work have emerged.â?¦ Collaboration Social learning'
Last week I had a presentation around using Social Media and Web 2.0 tools to improve your performance as a knowledgeworker. That said, I thought it would be worthwhile for me to collect a few of the resources that provide good starting points that can help KnowledgeWorkers improve their performance using Social Media.
Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledgeworkers 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. Member profiling. Activity streams. Real-time updates. Threaded discussions.
Must read post by Michele Martin - Changing KnowledgeWorker Attitudes. I believe that we have to start with making people conscious of the fact that they own the most precious resource in just about any organization today-the power of their ideas, social connections and thought processes. I had chills as I read it.
Must read post by Michele Martin - Changing KnowledgeWorker Attitudes. I believe that we have to start with making people conscious of the fact that they own the most precious resource in just about any organization today–the power of their ideas, social connections and thought processes. I had chills as I read it.
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Social media in organisations has been a difficult topic and sometimes bothers me. When I am invited to do introductory sessions in organisations, I feel like I'm converting people to use MORE social media, whereas I don't believe it is a matter of using as many social media as possible. Quick messages. Multitasking.
I have written a lot about how knowledgeworkers are using the Social Web to organise their own learning and performance support and how this is changing the face of workplace learning such that the new role of Traning & Development (T&D) will be to support these new ways of self-organised learning. Social learning'
Over the last few years I have been observing (as well as writing about) three significant things that are happening in the context of workplace learning: An increasing number of knowledgeworkers are finding their own solutions to their individual and team learning and performance problems on the Social Web – and in doing so [.].
Yet others feel email-centric knowledge-workers will tiptoe into social networking through Buzz. I want to learn your ideas on how Buzz can help in social learning - if at all. Others feel Buzz is Google's answer to Facebook, and is particularly useful for those who care for extra online privacy. What do you think?
In my previous post I showed that an analysis of how KnowledgeWorkers like to learn at work suggests that L&D departments should consider working more closely with people managers to support the continuous development and performance improvement of their people – both in teams and individually.â?¦ Social learning'
All of which has now become possible due to the availability of an ever-increasing number of instructional and informational resources as well as social tools, together with easy access to huge numbers of people in social networks and online communities. 1-30 September : Personal Knowledge Management led by Harold Jarche. »
This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work. Lessons Learned.
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Focused on knowledgeworkers–people who use digital info in their jobs. not knowledgeworkers. Very few companies have strategy for social media–many say it won’t work in their culture. We are all in these communities so it’s easier for us–how do you help average knowledgeworkers?
Work is changing, and as a consequence Jacob Morgan believes that one of the principles of the future employee (see infographic to the left) will be the shift from being a “knowledgeworker” to being a “learning worker” ‘Knowledge is a commodity, to be the smartest person in the room all you need is a smartphone.
Helping KnowledgeWorkers take charge of their professional lives and careers in the post-job economy. Social learning' Find out more about what this means in this slideset or read the full text version beneath it.â?¦
eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. ThirdForce Blog , May 15, 2009 US Army Using Interactive Videos - MinuteBio , May 15, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.
I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. Hat tip to Virginia Yonkers for calling it the Social Grid. A social grid has formed that provides concept workers new work methods. This should be a very interesting discussion.
Here are the details of two upcoming workshops and one free webinar at the Social Learning Centre. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Workshop. If you are a knowledgeworker then this workshop can give you a head start in better managing what you know and where to find it so you can get things done. Led by Harold Jarche.
One of the interesting points raised via the discussion: If you can get an expert level answer by asking for help through social networks how does that compare to being an expert? I believe there's really something here in terms of Leveraging Networks is Key Skill that allows us to get expert level answers via social networks.
Moments of need are either triggered by an issue or challenge where the knowledgeworker is confronted with either remembering what/how to do something and then are forced to rely upon recall knowledge. Where we would like to be is giving them an efficient resource where reference knowledge is readily accessible.
The knowledgeworkers who are the backbone of the banks play a significant role here in mitigating these challenges. This will help the knowledgeworkers update and enhance their knowledge to keep pace with the evolving banking environment and customer expectations. has added to these challenges.
It puts forward lots of suggestions for how knowledgeworkers can leverage technology to make themselves more effective. I actually think this is some of the most valuable stuff on my blog, and I believe that most knowledgeworkers are not really taking advantage of this at the level they should. Of course, I do.
Last week I did a webinar with Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks - Tapping the Social Grid. The crux of the talk was: Why being able to tap into the social grid is important for concept workers. A few of the tools and methods I use to tap into the social grid. There's a recording available here.
Will the demand for highly skilled workers, the pace of change in technology, and the high cost of four-year institutions cause people to seek a narrow, job-focused, technical education? This is good for the employees that take advantage of these programs and good for the economy which needs skilled and knowledgeableworkers.
From: Connected: The surprising power of our social networks and how they shape our lives by Brian Uzzi I have split the quotation above into two parts ( the numbers are my inserts and not a part of the original quote ), which I have discussed below. Hierarchy is being replaced by wirearchy.
Various ways to use social media as a facilitator or trainer [link] – includes my age model of formal social learning design #. RT @ thoughtfarmer : Social intranets: Not just for knowledgeworkers [link] #. The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators – No Need to be Friends At All!
Working online – Workers will find jobs and do their work via email and Web sites and apps, possibly without ever setting foot inside their employers’ organizations. Co-working – For cost reasons or social reasons or convenience, workers are choosing to share work space with people from other occupations and organizations.
Informal learning is like riding a bicycle: the rider chooses the destination and the route. The cyclist can take a detour at a moment’s notice to admire the scenery or help a fellow rider.”
Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledgeworkers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. and Workplace Communities: Embedding social media within WBT courses reintroduces these social exchanges without sacrificing the cost savings or WBT's time-of-need "replay capability."
At this point, I also "serendipitous-ly" stumbled upon a couple of conversations recently that touched upon lurking (this is why I love social media). I recalled some of the posts and articles I had read in the past about lurking as a behavior in online communities and what it indicated, and decided to dig through those again.
As technological capability increases, the cloud becomes pervasive, and the power of social and mobile become progressively evident, these will transform the way we function. The five forces are: We are already feeling the impact of each of these, and it will increasingly become even more palpable.
There where about 50 people at the conference and to my surprise most of them where novices in e-learning and social learning. Jane Hart said that she went from e-Learning to social business (see her blog on the subject), that’s an interesting shift of perception which makes me wonder where I am.
Is it okay for a learning professional to be unaware at this point of social media and its impact on learning and work? world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do KnowledgeWorkers Need? I'm not sure I buy this.
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Following my recent posting, Social learning is not a new training trend , I’ve had a few comments from readers that suggest they were not able to see the difference between the two workplace learning approaches I described – in particular the difference in the “mindset” involved.
A Genius Bar in every building” started as a blog post on our social collaboration platform. It’s also not about requiring workers to adjust their working time and flow to include specific activities that have the explicit purpose of assisting learning. Over the next few days, others contributed ideas and offered to volunteer.
Thomas Davenport classifies Knowledge Work Types in Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from KnowledgeWorkers using a variety of classifications. Within that he then defined the following types of knowledgeworkers: Transaction Worker - Routine, individual, ex. call center.
These changes are continuously transforming the landscape for knowledge work. The results are in, and most knowledgeworkers are struggling to adapt to new forms of work and learning. We will look over the shoulder of a modern knowledgeworker using e-learning 2.0 How are we doing at keeping up with these changes?
One of the favorite quotes I used to use during presentations was Drucker - The most important contribution of management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge-worker productivity. My guess is that someone like Tom is in a different league from most of us KnowledgeWorkers.
Is it okay for a learning professional to be unaware at this point of social media and its impact on learning and work? world is becoming more about your network than your current knowledge. Gina Minks: Adventures in Corporate Education What Competencies do KnowledgeWorkers Need? I'm not sure I buy this.
Critical theorists argue that knowledge is shaped by human interests of different kinds, rather than standing ‘objectively’ independent from these interests.&#. As you can tell by that quote, Critical Theory is steeped in political science and social justice.
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