Are Employees Twittering Away Productivity?
As the enterprise microsharing market (aka “Twitter inside Business”) grows, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people aren’t simply wasting time....
View ArticleTwitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work
Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream. I began using Twitter out of spite. Fast Company had a mass...
View ArticleGet Some Perspective
Periodically I see something on a social network site that’s so compelling I want to share it with everyone — and hope everyone I share it with actually reads it. That seems unlikely but still worth...
View ArticleLearning Styles Gold
Today is Learning Styles Awareness Day, a modern holiday akin to Talk Like a Pirate Day (or World Toilet Day). It’s the brainchild of Dave Kelly, whose stated objective is “to get as many people...
View ArticleThe Rise of Social Everything
Within five years, I predict, the word social will seem as cliché as synergy feels now. Social connection will be like a dial tone, something we once expected to hear and now don’t bother listening...
View ArticleGet on the road this September 11th
One summer day, when I was a kid, my childhood neighbor Tim ran through a plate glass door. He required thousands of stitches and lengthy recoup time. Though he mended, none of us was the same. The...
View ArticleLatest in Learning Fast: edu-Twittering
A decade ago the hot app on everyone’s desktop was PointCast, a personalized headline service of content emblazoned across your screensaver through a pre-RSS feed. No typing required, no link to click...
View ArticleThe Year In The Rear
Reflection isn’t just what you see in the mirror. Consider it a light that can guide what’s in front of you and a way to more carefully examine what’s behind. In that reflection you can revisit what’s...
View ArticleResolution: This Year Create a Stronger, Smarter Organization
With this new year, you may be looking frantically for a new way to improve your organization’s competitiveness, talent, staying power, and smarts. You’re not alone. When senior leaders of a giant...
View ArticleTools I Use
Yesterday I participated in two fabulous webinars, each with a different focus, yet both with social learning themes. During each I was asked about some of the tools I use personally to get the most...
View ArticlePop Music Good for Studies
Are you listening to music while you read this? The new app, Coffitivity, reminded me how much I prefer music to coffee shop chatter and airport terminal clatter (although I admit to having creative...
View ArticleKindle Highlights Social Learning
When you look at the kindle edition of books on Amazon.com, you can now see what other people have highlighted in their editions of the ebook. This means you can now have a fabulous way to share what...
View ArticleGreat people do things before they’re ready.
As I work on finishing up a book chapter about taking action and a report about using your brain at work, I found this fantastic quote from Amy Poehler. Perhaps not a new year’s resolution as much as a...
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