1 - 50 fun Twitter feeds for your summer reading – Nano Patents & Innovations
Whether you’re headed to the beach or curling up in a comfy chair, now is a great time to amp up your reading. With Twitter, it’s easier than ever to find your next great read, whether you’re learning about titles from the authors themselves or taking part in a reading community. Check out our list of 50 fun Twitter feeds for summer reading to discover books, take part in the reading community, and learn about the latest news in book publishing.
2 - Hey Dummy: This Is What “Responsive Design” Means
The Internet isn’t just on your computer screen anymore. It’s also on your phone, your tablet, your laptop, and god knows what else in the next few years. So when you visit a modern webpage, its design should take our multiplatform world into account, and morph to ideally match the size and shape of the screen you’re viewing it on. This is called “responsive design ..”
3 - Training, Performance, Social Workshop Notes - Harold Jarche
The workshops are designed to give just enough structure, without constraining personal and social learning. We curate what we think are the essential resources on a topic and also provide additional links and resources for those who are interested. We encourage all discussions to be done in the group area, so that people can learn from each other. Also, participants get my attention for two weeks. I try to find ways to help each person as I see what issues arise in the conversations. Without these conversations, I would not be able to help in an informed way. For those attending the workshops, the more they give, the more they get.
4 – Social learning from the employee perspective – Tom Spiglanin
What concerns me is that we seem to be a small minority. I work around many smart people, but relatively few actively engage in online social knowledge networks. I think they’re missing out and don’t know it. There must be valuable resources and connections for them in their respective fields of professional expertise. Even for the most technically specialized individual, it would be naive to think he or she wouldn’t derive some benefit from interacting with others online.
5 - 5 Ways Blogging Has Made Me a Better Scholar
I’m part of a community. When I first started blogging, no one read my blog because I hadn’t told anyone about it. Then I linked to another blogger in one of my posts and she shared it with her readers. Then everything just snowballed. Sure, my blog is tiny, but I really feel like a part of a community. We can disagree, support one another, and go off on tangents from each other’s posts.
