Here is Jane Hart’s month-by-month pick of articles, blog posts, infographics and presentations in 2011
For Jane’s favourite articles of the year, see Top 100 Articles of 2011.
Here is Jane’s 2012 Reading list
DECEMBER 2011
- The Social Business Starting Point, Oscar Berg, 31 December 2011
- Who is responsible for a learner’s motivation? Guy Wallace, 27 December 2011
- A Playbook for smart, social business in your organisation, The Social Workplace, 27 December 2011
- Are businesses using social media to their advantage, Business News, 26 December 2011
- 10 mega business trends to watch in 2012, A software insider’s point of view, 26 December 2011
- Evolution of the social business, Stuart Macrae, bcw, 23 December 2011
- From teams to crowds, Collaborative Strategies, 23 December 2011
- 5 reasons organisations don’t implement social networks and 5 reasons they should, Social Media Today, 22 December 2011
- Why people adopt or wait for new technologies, Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering, 21 December 2011
- C0-creation: when the crowd goes beyond the experts, Marcio Saito, 23 December 2011
- Fear and enterprise social networks, Maria Ogneva, Yammer blog, 22 December 2011
- 5 more signs you are not a social business, iGo2, 21 December 2011
- 5 signs you are not a social business, iGo2, 13 December 2011
- 11 tech factors that changed education, Mashable, 22 December 2011
- Is this the beginning of the end of the 9-5 workday?, Dan Schawbel, Time, 21 December 2011
- 10 cool uses of Wolfram Alpha i f you read and write in the English language, MakeUseOf.com, 21 December 2011
- Social business predictions for 2012, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dachis Group
- Thriving as a HR professional in a social business era, 7Geese, 17 December 2011
- Social media are moving organisations from a hierarchical into a wirearchical approach, Online faciliteren en meer, 19 December 2011
- Why social tech’s real value is inside the business, InfoWorld, 19 December 2011
- Learning in Wonderland, Through the 70:20:10 Looking Glass, Charles Jennings, Inside Learning Technologies, December 2011
- AT&T to save $80 million in productivity due to internal social media profiles, Matt Wilson, Ragan, 19 December 2011
- 10 Tips on using Twitter wisely, ReadWriteWeb, 19 December 2o11
- Social Business and enterprise usage: the lessons, Dion Hinchcliffe, ZDNet, 16 December 2011
- Social Business, IBM, December 2011
- Stop talking about “social”, Think Inside In, Paul Adams. Think Outside In,, 18 December 2011
- Technology cannot disrupt education from the top down, TechCrunch, 18 December 2011
- Social business: it’s NOT about the next big thing, Pam Moore, Business2Community, 18 December 2011
- Accountability needed for workplace training, Robert Terry, FT, 12 December 2011
- The 10 key skills for the future of work, Web Worker Daily, 16 December 2011
- The 6 hats of a community manager, Sahana, 16 December 2011
- Engage employees like customers, HBR Tip of the Day, 16 December 2011
- Why social collaboration is important for your intranet, Joshua David, 16 December 2011
- The New Media Workout Plan, Patrick Moberg
- 3 easy steps to a great 20 minute presentation, Forbes, 13 December 2011
- YouTube for Schools
- New culture of learning, Judy O’Connell, Slideshare, 13 December 2011
- 26 amazing facts about Finland’s education system, Business, Insider, 14 December 2011
- Network thinking vs hierarchy thinking, Harold Jarche, 15 December 2011
- The power of recognition in the enterprise (it’s not just about the money), Social Workplace, 15 December 2011
- Social collaboration vs the existing communication culture, Oscar Berg, 14 December 2011
- The 10 best TED Talks of 2011, Read Write Web, 14 December 2011
- Structured or Unstructured Collaboration, Which is Better? Jacob Morgan, Social Enterprise Today, 14 December 2011
- Are learners idiots? Cathy Moore, 13 December 2011
- Learning in Wonderland: the untapped potential of workplace learning, Charles Jennings, 14 December 2011
- Everyday experience is not the same as it was, Harold Jarche, 12 December 2011
- 15 flipped classrooms we can learn from, OnlineCollege.org, December 2011
- Empowering change through collaboration, Don Tapscott, Social Media Week, 26 October 2011
- Social media belongs in the classroom, Jason Falls, Education Nation, December 2011
- Social media means more than salary to some students, Social Business Today, 8 December 2011
- #CIPDSocial11 Bill Parsons (ARM): social media and why business needs to take note, Jon Ingham, 7 December 2011
- ‘Real’ Learning: The Role of Context, Charles Jennings, Training Industry Quarterly, December 2011
- More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years – all driven by 10 technology innovations, Donald Clark, 7 December 2011
- Ford Motor Company Digital Participation Guidelines
- The 4 Ps of Social Business, Visceral Business, 7 December 2011
- Inviting interaction, Jane Bozarth, 6 December 2011
- 17 Tips for Planning a Private Social Network for Your Business, Socious, 5 December 2011
- Social media overload, anxiety and polarization, Rachel Happe, 5 December 2011
- 12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead, Ross Dawson, 1 December 2011
- Gartner: 10 Predictions for 2012, IT Departments to Adapt or be Swept Aside, CMS Wire, 1 December 2011
- From social intranets to collaboration ecosystems, Forbes, 30 November 2011
- What is (and isn’t) innovation, Anne Knock, 4 December 2011
- Field of Dreams: Harvard Business School reinvents its MBA, The Economist, 3 December 2011
- Rethinking the digital future, Wall Street Journal, 3 December 2011
- Going viral visualised, Mashable, 4 December 2011
- Why do middle managers resist flex-work for employees, TLNT, 3 December 2011
- The Disrupters, Fast Company, 2 December 2011
- Why are there no successful innovation initiatives, Steve Denning, Forbes, 2 December 2011
- Learned (learning) helplessness, Mark Britz, Learning Zealot, 2 December 2011
- Why schools need to get social, local and mobile, Troy Williams, Mashable, 1 December 2011
- Why Google is the most important learning tool ever invented, Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company, 1 December 2011
- Majority of American workers not engaged in their jobs, Gallup, 28 October 2011
NOVEMBER 2011
- Don’t blame the information for your bed habits, Clay Johnson, O’Reilly Radar, 29 November 2011
- Managing engagement, Harold Jarche, 30 November 2011
- 4 social elements and the talk-nology empowering the web, Mike Sansone, Converstations, 30 November 2011
- Social business success in 2012: simplicity is the key, CMS Wire, 28 November 2011
- 21st century skills are so last century, Donald Clark, 29 November 2011
- Twitter I don’t get it, 3-step guide for newbies, Brandon Twyford, 3 May 2011
- To really drive Enterprise 2.0 forward we need a behavioural change, Dan Pontefract, 28 November 2011
- How to turn your workplace into an ideas workshop, Wallace Immen, 24 November 2011
- The wild west of work media, WebWorkerDaily 26 November 2011
- Tips to create a culture of collaboration and innovation, frogloop, 25 November 2011
- Trouble with training, Bob Little, Checkpoint elearning, November 2011
- Learning in the 21st century workplace, Jay Cross, 23 November 2011
- Is your training course likely to boost performance, Will Thalheimer, 22 November 2011
- 100 Tools for learning, Learning Chi, Ladonna Coy, 22 November 2011
- Why Is the Research on Learning Styles Still Being Dismissed by Some Learning Leaders and Practitioners? Guy Wallace, elearnmag, November 2011
- Five ways to judge your corporate culture, Internet Evolution, 16 November 2011
- 5 big trends for education in 2012-13, Forbes, 21 November 2011
- Enterprise 2.0 maturing with a focus on how we manage, measure and motivate, ComputerWorld, 21 November 2011
- How social technologies are extending the enterprise, McKinsey Quarterly, November 2011
- Inventing the collaborative workspace, Adam Richardson, Harvard Business Review, 21 November 2011
- Get used to the role of social business in the milennial enterprise, CMS Wire, 21 November 2011
- The competitive edge of the social business, Esko Kilpi, 20 November 2011
- The Humanization of Tech — Designing Technology Around Users, Column5, 18 November 2011
- Social media for learning start guide, Jane Bozarth, Inside Learning Technologies, November 2011
- 5 trends that will shape our future, Kevin Wheeler, 16 November 2011
- Breathing life into SharePoint’s social landscape, Social Business Today, 15 November 2011
- Clay Shirky: Social networking will change business like PC, laptop, email did, Social Business Today, 15 November 2011
- Use Yammer in your training programs, Allison, Yammer blog, 15 November 2011
- Enterprise social barely out of the starting gate, Web Worker Daily, 8 November 2011
- Intel sparks internal communication through blogs, wikis, forums, Russell Working, Ragan.com, 11 November 2011
- Yammer content goes social, 9 November 2011
- So you (still) want to be an e-learning consultant, Harold Jarche, 7 November 2011
- Teach thyself, Andrew Sullivan, 5 November 2011
- Going online the way forward for education, says Gordon Brown, Donald Clark, 6 November 2011
- Performance, strategies and social learning, Dianne Rees, Enterprise Collaborative
- 12 Most Important Social Media Prerequisites for Business, 12 Most, 28 June 2011
- Despite the hype: few enterprise workers embrace social media, ReadWriteWeb, 3 November 2011
- Insights from #devlearn, Paul Simbeck Hampson, 4 November 2011
- The mobile world in 60 seconds, TechCrunch, November 2011
- The future of social media, 38 experts share their predictions for 2012, Business2Community, 1 November 2011
- It’s the network, Harold Jarche, 2 November 2011
OCTOBER 2011
- Introducing the Digital Learning Quadrants, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 20 October 2011
- Facebook may be changing our brains, study says, The Globe and Mail, 19 October 2011
- Think twice before using Google+ with corporate and education Google Apps accounts, Venture Beat, 28 October 2011
- The complexity and madness of Daylight Savings Time, CGP Grey, YouTube video, 24 October 2011
- Social network technologies for learning, Stephen Downes, 28 October 2011
- Social media vs knowledge management, HBR Blog Network, 26 October 2011
- Top 16 technologies for empowered employees, CMS Wire, 24 October 2011
- Connect, exchange, contribute, Harold Jarche, 26 October 2011
- Enterprise 2.0 = Learning 2.0, Frederic Domon, Social Learning blog, 27 October 2011
- Rhinos don’t do it! Engage in learning communities, that is, Nic Laycock, 24 October 2011
- Failure is essential to knowledge work, Collaborative planning and business, 24 October 2011
- Over half organisations consider social business imperative to success, CMS Wire, 21 October 2011
- Baseball, big data and learnings from advanced analytics, Marcia Conner, Fast Company, 24 October 2011
- Taking the time to cross the chasm, Harold Jarche, 24 October 2011
- How the Web has powered work for 20 years, WebWorkerDaily, 22 October 2011
- The difference between management and leadership, Seth Godin, 22 October 2011
- Informal Learning plug, on a LMS near you, Dan Roddy, 21 October 2011
- Consumerization of IT, Well, Social Enterprise Today, 21 October 2011
- Announcng the End of Business As Usual, Brian Solis, 18 October 2011
- Edsurge: mapping the edtech world, flipped classrooms and more, FastCompany, 20 October 2011
- How to energize your career to keep growing, learning and improving, Lifehacker, 19 October 2011
- 7 reasons why Siri could be a breakthrough in e-learning, Donald Clark, 19 October 2011
- Education is the new marketing, Social media explorer, 19 October 2011
- Why do we need social business, Harold Jarche, 19 October 2011
- A case for using social networking for learning, MediaShift, 18 October 2011
- The end of business as usual, Brian Solis, 18 October 2011
- Edsurge: Mapping the edtech world, Fast Company, 20 October 2011
- 7 reasons why Siri could be a breakthrough in e-learning, Donald Clark, 19 October 2011
- Education is the new marketing, Social Media Explorer, 19 October 2011
- Why do we need social business, Harold Jache, 19 October 2011
- A case for using social networking for learning, Mediashift, 8 October 2011
- The state of social media: social is the new normal, Brian Solis, 17 October 2011
- Are the most interesting work stories shared during cigarette breaks, Ragan, 18 October 2011
- A community mindset for learning and development, Nic Laycock, 17 October 20111
- The six attitudes leaders take towards social media Harvard Business Review, 17 October 201
- The fallacy of digital natives Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 17 October 2011
- 7 compelling arguments for peer learning, Donald Clark, 16 October 2011
- In a complex world, continuous learning and simple truths prevail, Charles Jennings, 16 October 2011
- Turkish professor uses social media to teach history, Today’s Zaman, 16 October 2011
- Small companies slow to embrace social media internally, Ragan, 17 October 2011
- 5 ways tech can make new hires feel like part of the team, Mashable, 9 October 2011
- Learning Transformation and Governance, presentation on Slideshare, Charles Jennings, October 2011
- Do I/we act upon Steve Jobs’ words or am I only nodding but not acting for change, Inge de Waard, 7 October 2011
- Run your company intranet with WordPress and Buddypress, Tom Ford, WPMU, 7 October 2011
- 5 ways to disengage your workforce, Ann Bartlett-Bragg, Dachis Group, 5 October 2011
- Dropping names, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 5 October 2011
- The future of work is learning, Luis Suarez, 5 October 2011
- A.C. Grayling: exams system ‘distorts pupils’ abilities‘, Telegraph, 5 October 2011
- The view from the top, and bottom, Economist, 24 September 2011
- Social Media for Learning, Jane Bozarth, Learning Solutions Magazine, 4 October 2011
- Understanding and learning from students: do you know Generation Y, Guardian, 3 October 2011
- The new knowledge worker, Harold Jarche, 1 October 2011
SEPTEMBER 2011
- The 9 types of collaborators, Central Desktop, September 2011
- Now that people finally matter to business, HR is the next big thing, Marcia Conner, Fast Company, 28 September 2011
- Leadership in learning communities that break the mold, Nic Laycock, 28 September 2011
- Why teaching isn’t selling, Dave Cormier, 27 September 2011
- Social business: revolution or differentiator, Seth Gottlieb, 26 September 2011
- Nearly all US doctors are now on social media, amednews.com, 26 September 2011
- Keep your social media in perpetual beta, Harold Jarche, 25 September 2011
- New hire emergent practices, Harold Jarche, 24 September 2011
- Refuting every point, Stephen Downes, Half an Hour, 23 September 2011
- Reflecting socially, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 23 September 2011
- What sort of community are you leading? Nic Laycock, 23 September 2011
- U of Calgary professor uses Twitter to teach Shakespeare, CTV News, 22 September 2011
- Why do Facebook users hate change, Zack Whittaker, iGeneration, ZDNet, 22 September 2011
- Nature finds a way, Mark Britz, Learning Zealot, 18 September 2011
- Making sense of the world, Jay Cross, Internet Time, 20 September 2011
- We are still the solution to the problem, Harold Jarche, 19 September 2011
- The context of leadership in online communities, Nic Laycock, 19 September 2011
- Recording can improve a bad lecture! 7 surprising facts of recorded lectures, Donald Clark, Plan B, 17 September 2011
- The 2020 Workforce and the LMS Disconnect, Dawn of Learning, 16 September 2011
- 3 rules for networking at work, HBR Management Tip of the Day, 16 September 2011
- The winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How they are reinventing management, HBR, 15 September 2011
- The future of performance is social, WorkSimple, 13 September 2011
- Informal learning is a business imperative, Harold Jarche, 13 September 2011
- Social networks drive innovation, Harold Jarche, 12 September 2011
- How and why you should encourage employees to share ideas, Ragan.com, 13 September 2011
- The most effective method of learning a language alone, Lifehacker, 12 September 2011
- Comment-only access in Google Docs, Google Docs Blog, 12 September 2011
- Take control of your social media, Tulsa World, 12 September 2011
- How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching, The Guardian, 12 September 2011
- Social media and the coming corporate revolution, Forbes, 7 September 2011
- QR Codes, explained by CommonCraft, September 2011
- The really free schools are online, The Independent, 12 September 2011
- The inconvenient truth about social media, Marketing Mystic, 12 September 2011
- 10 things you can do for fun and learning on the Library of Congress Online, MakeUseOf.com, 10 September 2011
- Shelf life of social media links only 3 hours, Hubspot, 8 September 2011
- Is the traditional corporate university dead? Karl Moore, Forbes, 7 September 2011
- Social Business Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does, Neither Does Enterprise 2.0 Deb Lavoy, 7 September 2011
- The Long View with Jay Cross, ASTD, September 2011
- The pulse of education around the world, Course Hero, 25 August 2011
AUGUST 2011
- How NASA Plans to Make Astrophysics Fun With an Ambitious Social Game, Mashable, 31 August 2011
- How to Network Your Way to World-Class Mentors and Teachers, Forbes, 31 August 2011
- The Social Network Decision Tree, Guy Kawasaki, Open Forum, 29 August 2011
- The Digital Revolution and Higher Education, Pew Internet & American Life Project, 28 August 2011
- Checklist Manifesto, Clark Quinn, Learnlets. 29 August 2011
- The evolution of collaboration and online community, Collaborative Strategies, 28 August 2011
- The political party that wants to ban PowerPoint, Guardian, 28 August 2011
- Guide to Twitter in the K8 Classroom, Langwitches, 28 August 2011
- Social learning: the freedom to act and cooperate with others, Harold Jarche, 28 August 2011
- What happens when social networking collides with the corporate intranet, London Business School blog, 3 August 2011
- Making sense of our world, Harold Jarche, 24 August 2011
- Why people don’t engage with learning, Nic Laycock, 24 August 2011
- Leading and Managing (Networked) People Must Evolve, Jon Husband, Fast Forward Blog, 22 August 2011
- A group of would be friends, Jon Miles, 21 August 2011
- What did you do in the social networking revolution, Daddy? Joe McKendrick, Fast Forward blog, 20 August 2011
- Beware the “M” word in communities, Nic Laycock, 19 August 2011
- Backchannel learning in an organizational setting, David Kelly, eLearn magazine, August 2011
- What if HR was solely focused on human resources, David Kelly, Misadventures in Learning, 18 August 2011
- 3 tips for teachers using social media in the classroom, Mashable, 18 August 2011
- Do online communities depend on their digital skills for success? Nic Laycock, 17 August 2011
- Is the 90-9-1 Rule for Online Community Engagement Dead? Socious, 11 August 2011
- A different brand of HR and L&D, Evidence-based HR, Paul Kearns, 12 August 2011
- How social learning is like gravity, Dennis Callahan, Learnstreaming, 13 August 2011
- Maybe a little social media fatigue isn’t such a bad idea, GigaOm, 12 August 2011
- Real power of learning is social: Part 1 and Part 2, Charles Jennings, LearningPool blog, August 2011
- Free online class shakes up photography education, Raw file, 11 August 2011
- Turn up engagement with a Yammer treasure hunt, Yammer bog, August 2011
- For the plugged-in, too many choices, Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 10 August 2011
- The Oxford Union debate on informal learning: style or substance, Samuel Greengard, eLearn magazine, August 2011
- Google Plus v Facebook infographic, Gtricks, 9 August 2011
- Those hard soft skills, Harold Jarche, 8 August 2o11
- Education at its very best – Brighton rocks, Donald Clark, Plan B, 7 August 2011
- The pros and cons of MOOCs, Lisa Chamberlin, Tracy Parris, eLearn magazine, 4 August 2011
- Social and workplace learning through the 7:20:10 lens, Charles Jennings, 4 August 2011
- The 70:20:10 framework, Charles Jennings, Slideshare
- Willingness v Ability to change, Mark Britz, 3 August 2011
- What can blockbuster video teach us about learning and performance, David Kelly, Misadventures in Learning, 2 August 2011
- Managing learning: feel the need to manage learning, Charles Jennings, presentation to elearning network, SlideshareJuly 2011
- Communities at work – even trees do it! Nic Laycock, 2 August 2011
- Chrome overtakes Firefox to become UK’s second most popular browser, Mashable, 1 August 2011
- Sharepocalypse Now: why social media overload means new opportunities for startups, Mashable, 31 July 2011
- The limits to what you can learn online or alone, Dave Pollard, 29 July 2011
- Is 16th century teaching the future of education? Kirsten Winklery, big think, 31 July 2011
JULY 2011
- Iceland unveils crowdsourced constitution, Mashable, 29 July 2011
- It’s not who you circle, it’s who circles you, Mashable, Chris Brogan, 29 July 2011
- The Mobile Worker Movement, Inside Enterprise IT, 8 July 2011
- E-Learning – E is for Ellie, Nic Laycock, 28 July 2011
- The death of the traditional enterprise, huddle, 25 May 2011
- 7 ways Google+ users are getting more out of their circles, Mashable, 27 July 2011
- Supporting millenials in the workplace, WebWorker Daily, 27 July 2011
- How social media has changed the way I think and learn, Jimmy Hobson, 21 July 2011
- Embrace employee devices, Citrix
- The UX of learning, A list apart, 26 July 2011
- Supporting one another in online communities, Nic Laycock, 26 July 2011
- The community dance hall, Harold Jarche, 25 July 2011
- State of the Internet 2011, July 2011
- Being careful and caring with our learning communities, Nic Laycock, 21 July 2011
- Confessions of a semi-retired lurker, Steve Bachelder, 21 July 2011
- Employees using own gadgets ‘more productive’, The Telegraph, 18 July 2011
- What is (a) community, Luis Suarez, 19 July 2011
- 2011 skills for L&D – the time for “just in time”, Nic Laycock, 20 July 2011
- Google+ is the social backbone, OReilly Radar, 19 July 2011
- 19 interesting ways to (possibly) use Google+ to support learning, July 2011
- Consulting 2.0, Luc Galoppin, Management Exchange, 16 July 2011
- Learning Management Systems: Failure and scope for improvement, Hareesh Kanchanepally, 9 July 2011
- Choose your own flight path … Richard Merrick, 16 July 2011
- The challenge of organizational learning, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2011
- Why I still prefer Twitter over Google+ (way more, Luca Fiigheddu, 15 July 2011
- Block social media at the office? Gen Y won’t work for you, Ragan PR Daily, 11 July 2011
- Encouraging a conference backchannel on Twitter, ProfHacker, Chronicle of Higher Ed, 10 February 2011
- Twitter is the newest toy for self-published stories, FastCompany, 11 July 2011
- 40 Google+ tips for newbies, marketingprofessor, 11 July 2011
- How to display your profile in Google Search, Digital Inspiration, 11 July 2011
- When training is not the answer, Marc Rosenberg, Learning Solutions Magazine, 11 July 2011
- Review of Chatter project, Sam Burrough, Clearly Learning, 11 July 2011
- GooglePlus sucks (and here’s why), Lockergnome, 11 July 2011
- Are you going to adopt Google+ for professional learning/networking? Beth Kanter, 11 July 2011
- Tired phrases we should put to rest, Ragan’s PR Daly, 11 July 2011
- Future work skills 2020, July 2011
- Social media has not changed how people learn forever .. not yet anyway, David Kelly, 11 July 2011
- New ways of learning, ITA, 11 July 2011
- Being in a learning community; it’s more than signing up, Nic Laycock, 11 July 2011
- One platform to rule them all, Harold Jarche, 11 July 2011
- Google+ vs Facebook, PC Magazine, 11 July 2011
- How to spruce up a boring resume (infographic), Mashable,11 July 2011
- Brevity breath of fresh air in time of overload, The Australian, 11 Juy 2011
- The future of companies and the modern workplace, WebWorkerDaily, 10 July 2011
- Meet the Tweeters (infographic), ColumnFive, 6 July 2011
- Google+ tips and tricks, July 2011
- Story telling and social networks; why Twitter beats GooglePlus, ReadWriteWeb, 9 July 2011
- Google+ in education, EdReach, 4 July 2011
- How to view your Facebook stream in GooglePlus, Simple Help, 9 July 2o11
- How are people really using LinkedIn (infographic), Mashable, 10 July 2011
- Don’t forget the YOU in social learning, Dennis Callahan, Learnstreaming, July 2011
- Why excellent performance isn’t nearly enough, bnet, 8 July 2011
- 28 creative ways teachers are using Twitter, BestCollegesOnline, July 2011
- What’s a Twitter chat? David Kelly, 7 July 2011
- Google Plus – One Social Networking Tool to Rule Them All, Luis Suarez, 5 July 2011
- Community – an important component of performance support, Nic Laycock, 6 July 2011
- The 21st century is in play and is really really different, Jay Cross, Internet Time Alliance Blog, 5 July 2011
- Why Google+ could find a home in the workplace, WebWorker Daily, 4 July 2011
- I don’t care what you had for lunch; providing professional value in Twitter, Andrea, Social Learning blog, 5 July 2011
- When the Baby Boomers meet the Mobile generation, DistrictAdministration, June 2011
- Google makes the same mistake on the three questions for tech adoption, Dave Cornier, 4 July 2011
- Brilliant conference lunch idea, Nancy White, 1 July 2011
- Content curation – grown up and coming of age, Myrstad’s Blog, 27 May 2011
- Teaching versus learning, Wired Science, 2 July 2011
- Amplifying the learning at The elearning network, Martin Couzins, 29 June 2011
- The impact of social tools on the enterprise, WebWorkerDaily, 1 July 2011
JUNE 2011
- Reflections on some deep questions about L&D, Mark Berthelemy, Learning Conversations 30 June 2011
- Teaching lifelong learning skills with Twitter: a lesson for leaders, Michelle Pacansky-Brock, 10 June 2011
- Google’s Facebook competitor, The Google+ Social Network finally arrives, searcheningeland, 28 June 2011
- The difficulty of social learning, Nic Laycock 28 June 2011
- Resetting learning and work, Harold Jarche, 27 June 2011
- Are you ready for the second wave of social media, Smart blog on social media, 24 June 2011
- You can’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it, Harold Jarche, 24 June 2011
- Not my training problem, Judy Unrein, 23 June 2011
- Releasing the inner cowboy - a professional confessional, Niall Gavin, 24 June 2011
- CLO Maths: Part 1, Charles Jennings, 22 June 2011
- The science of social timing, digital buzz, 22 June 2011
- Post-Workshop conversation with Harold Jarche and Mark Sheppard, 20 Brent Mackinnon, June 2011
- Social media and learning: note-taking on steroids, Donald Clark, 20 June 2011
- 7 reasons Twitter is central to my life, Ross Dawson, 20 June 2011
- Students becoming curators of information, Langwitches, 12 June 2011
- A brief history of the corporation 1600-2100, Venkat, Ribbon Farm, 8 June 2011
- Pixie dust and the mountain of mediocrity, Kathy Sierra, gapingvoid, 7 June 2011
- 60 seconds on the Internet, Geeks are Sexy, 17 June 2011
- Four things L&D must do to stay relevant Part 1, Donald Taylor, 17 June 2011
- The history of email (infographic), Mashable, 18 June 2011
- Joining is important to social learning, Dennis Callahan, Learnstreaming, 17 June 2011
- Adding play into work (infographic), Socialcast blog, 14 June 2011
- When is the best time to tweet, Dave Larsen, tweetsmarter, 3 March 2011
- Content curators, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 13 June 2011
- Learning is the new work, Jay Cross, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, 13 June 2011
- Reflections on #realwplearn chat: From Learning Design to Performance Design, David Kelly, Misadventures in Learning, 14 June 2011
- It’s a Facebook world, other social networks just live it, Robin Wauters, Techcrunch, 13 June 2011
- Twitter’s secret handshake, Ashley Parker, New York Times, 10 June 2011
- 7 objections to social media in learning (and answers), Donald Clark Plan B, 11 June 2011
- The Uncommon core, Will Richardson, weblogg-ed, 9 June 2011
- Your LinkedIn connections turned into Tetris, digital inspiration, 6 June 2011
- Clinical learning in the open, Wishful thinking in medical education, 4 June 2011
- How the Library of Congress is building the Twitter archive, O’Reilly Radar, 2 June 2011
- How to create a successful Twitter chat, Business2Community, 2 June 2011
- The QWERTY complex: unjamming our organisations to thrive through change, Doron Oronson, Cisco Blog, 1 June 2011
- Computer viruses and threats, Common Craft, 2 June 2011
- How to control Keynote presentations on your iPad from your iPhone, WebWorker Daily, 1 June 2011
- Is Twitter a waste of time, Problogger, 6 June 2011
- How Twitter works as a Q&A app, Mashable, 1 June 2011
- Virtual Worlds: immersive training, collaboration and meetings, Aliza Sherman, WebWorker Daily, 1 June 2011
- The Four Stages of Teaching yourself to cook, Melanie Pinola, Lifehacker, 1 June 2011
- Employee engagement, culture and business success, Derek Irvine, Human Capital League, 1 June 2011
- 7 resources explaining the learning styles myth, Dennis Callahan, Learnstreaming, February 2011
- So many learning style tests, so little time, Joitske Husebosch, Lasagna and chips, 31 May 2011
- Carrots and sticks: procrastination fix, Don Pink, 31 May 2011
- Designs for natural learning, Tom Gram, Performance x Design, 2 June 2011
MAY 2011
- The Client knows best, CLO Magazine, 26 May 2011
- Ten tips for successful conference tweeting, Jeff Hurt, 25 April 2011
- The need for an alternative to Facebook, Altly blog, 24 May 2011
- Without workflow, social business is doomed, Agency Collaboration, 26 May 2011
- YouTube: Two days worth of video uploaded every minute, 26 May 2011
- Moving toward 2020: the learning decade, Fast Company, 25 May 2011
- New hire practices, Harold Jarche, 25 May 2011
- The learning brain gets bigger – than smaller, Scientific American, 25 May 2011
- The pull of narrative: in search of persistent context, John Hagel, 25 May 2011
- A world without Facebook, Most viral media, 25 May 2011
- Digital Darwinism is the evolution of consumer behaviour when society and technology evolve faster than you, Syndicating Brian Solis, 24 May 2011
- 5 unique uses of Twitter in the classroom, Ryan Little, US News, Education, 24 May 2011
- Getting beyond fear, Ellen Gallinsky, Harvard Business Review, 18 May 2011
- Network learning PKM Workshop notes, Harold Jarche, 18 May 2011
- The first is always the hardest – but tips the scales to a new standard, Nic Laycock, Nic’s Discoveries, 18 May 2011
- Teaching methods: an alternative vote, The Economist, 12 May 2011
- Who needs training again? Charles Jennings, Entreprise Collaborative, 17 May 2011
- 10 mobile questions, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 17 May 2011
- College students, is Twitter hurting your grades, Master-Degree Online, 17 May 2011
- The new normal of work includes social media, Brass Tack Thinking, 16 May 2011
- 6 steps to finding the right Twitter chat for you, Blogher, 16 May 2011
- The true nature of a social intranet, Oscar Berg, CMS Wire, 16 May 2011
- It takes three to filter: three-pronged approach to manage information overload, Maria Ogneva, Yammer blog, 16 May 2011
- Why don’t you have an internal YouTube video sharing service, Dan Pontefract, 16 May 2011
- Going interactive in a big way: how can we transform the classroom, Cathy Davidson, DMLCentral, 16 May 2011
- The future of the library, Seth Godin, 16 May 2011
- The case for online social networking in education, Jose Picardo, 14 May 2011
- The perfect storm for classroom teaching could arrive in 2012, the xplanation, 14 May 2011
- Deliberate practice: how education fails to produce experts, Freakonomics, 4 May 2011
- A better way to teach, Jeffrey Mervis, Science Magazine, 12 May 2011
- Speaking up in class, silently, using social media, The New York Times, 12 May 2011
- Using live blogging to enhance the learning experience, The Guardian, 12 May 2011
- Twittering classes for teachers, The Guardian, 9 May 2011
- Social intranets: not just for knowledge workers, ThoughtFarmer blog, 11 May 2011
- Becoming an eTeacher
- The why and how of using Facebook for educators – no need to be friends at all, Ronnie Burt, The Edublogger, 11 May 2011
- Various ways to use social media as a facilitator trainer, Joitske Hulsebosc, Lasagna and chips, 11 May 2011
- Roles in communities of practice, Joitske Hulsebosc, Lasagna and chips, 9 May 2011
- Learning informally or formally? Why not both?, Frederic Domon, Entreprise Collaborative, 10 May 2011
- What is the ROI of a conversation, Influential Marketint blog, 6 May 2011
- Steps for learning professionals to use to move from training to performance mindset, MJ Hall, ASTD Blog, 6 May 2011
- Serendipitous learning, Ilona Buchen, Beuth University
- Mapping informal and formal learning strategies to real work, Tom Gram, Performance X Design, 4 May 2011
- On competencies and compliance, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 3 May 2011
- Get your employees onboard with your social media policy, Maria Ogneva, Mashable, 2 May 2011
- 6 ways technology can help tuned-out students tune-in, Lisa Nielsen, Huffpost education, 2 May 2011
- From classroom to online, think “transform” not “transfer”, Jane Bozarth, Learning Solutions Magazine, May 2011
- Training professionals: learn to say no to ‘no’, Bill Cushard, Mindflash, 2 May 2011
- Imagination: creating the future of education and work
APRIL 2011
- How schools can use Facebook to create an online community, Mashable, 26 April 2011
- Gambling on diamonds in the rough, Training Journal, 26 April 2011
- The other side of learning: “performance is everything“, Conrad Gottfredson, Learning Solutions Magazine, 26 April 2011
- The cultural imperative for a social business
- Part 1, Maria Ogneva, 18 April 2011
- Part 2, Maria Ogneva, 21 April 2011
- Social business: a definition, fresh networks, 21 April 2011
- Social media for the medical trainee, White Coat Notes, 21 April 2011
- The cost of fragmented communication in the enterprise, Socialcast, 19 April 2011
- Online database of social media policies
- How can managers get more involved in coaching their teams? Mindflash, 21 April 2011
- Building an engaging community by Gautam Ghosh, Luis Suarez, 19 April 2011
- Social Learning, complexity and the enterprise, Harold Jarche, 20 April 2011
- The death and reinvention of management, Steve Denning
- Part 1: Overview
- Part 2: Delighting the client
- Part 3: From controller to enabler
- Part 4: From bureaucracy to dynamic thinking
- Part 5: From value to values
- Part 6: From command to conversation
- Trust and networks, Gideon Rosenblatt, Alchemy of Change, 16 April 2011
- How to engage employees in the workplace, 12 April 2011
- Engaged community is a healthy community, Yammer blog, 23 March 2011
- Knowledge management: creating a social intranet where employees can learn, Elizabeth Lupfer, Social Media Today,
- Fun: the key to better team collaboration, Georgina Laidlow, WebWorkerDaily, 12 April 2011
- Engaged Community is a Healthy Community – Best Practices in Internal Social Networking, Yammer blog, 23 March 2011
- Corporate microblogging helps employees migrate work conversations online, Rawn Shah, 11 April 2011
- How social media is changing the education industry, Sahil Shah, Penn Olson, 10 April 2011
- The new information age, Vivek Wadhwa, TechCrunch, 10 April 2011
- Power of social learning can help students, teachers, Comoxvalleyrecord, 31 March 2011
- What is the future of the Learning & Development department? Ross Dawson, 5 April 2011
- Learning and working effectively, Harold Jarche, 5 April 2011
- Building an online community? Think like a n00b, Alltop, 5 April 2011
- Developing apps for the future of work, WebWorkerDaily, 4 April 2011
- Building a personal learning network (PLN), Jane Bozarth, Learning Solutions Magazine, April 2011
- What CEOs want (and it’s not what you think), Rich Mesch, Performance, Punctuated, 3 April 2011
- World’s simplest online safety policy, Tom Whitby, My Island View, 2 April 2011
- 21 signs you are a 21st century teacher, Brave new world, 2 April 2010
- The 90-9-1 collaboration paradox: Orgs should aim to reverse it, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 2 April 2011
- Communities of practice: teaching students to learn in networks, Online Journalism Blog, 1 April 2011
MARCH 2011
- The hectic schedule of a social media manager, Socialcast blog, 15 February 2011
- How to use someone’s blog post ethically, New England Multimedia, 27 March 2011
- Thinking through performing and learning, Clark Quinn, 25 March 2011
- Making informal learning assets work, Tom Gram, 25 March 2011
- How to hack RSS to reduce information overload, Dawn Foster, WebWorker Daily, 25 March 2011
- Social Learning Community – analysis of a successful start up, Nic Laycock, 25 March 2011
- The Working Smarter Glossary, Jay Cross, 22 March 2011
- How to calculate the ROI of Enterprise 2.0, Socialcast blog, 22 March 2011
- Social networking with students, PlanetChemistry’s blog, 22 March 2011
- The power of conversations, Charles Jennings 22 March 2011
- Unleashing the power of networked learning, Martha Stone Wiske, Harvard Business Review, 21 March 2011
- The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday, McKinsey Quarterly, December 2010
- Four things to stop in order to fuel momentum, Leadership Freak, 15 March 2011
- Back to the future, and face-to-face, Harvard Business Review, 10 March 2011
- Close to the edge: the radicalization of training, Gary Wise, Living in Learning, 8 March 2011
- “I’m not an idiot” – a letter from an agonized adult learner, Geeta Bose, IDiot, 9 March 2010
- Screencasting toolkit, digital inspiration, 9 March 2011
- Enterprise collaboration requires critical new skills, Deb Lavoy, CMS Wire, 8 March 2011
- How to deal with information overload brought on by social media, Marketing Wizdom,
- Beyond SCORM: a welcome new direction, Marc Rosenberg, Learning Solutions Magazine, March 2011
- Why best practices don’t work for knowledge work, Luis Suarez, Enterprise Collaborative, 20 February 2011
- What is the learning world coming to, Archana Narayan, 4 March 2011
- Corporate learning trends – what endures during recessions, Kevin Wheeler, 3 March 2011
- Using Facebook and Twitter as effective learning tools, Lisa Marie Ackerly, 2 March 2011
- Using Facebook and Twitter in the classroom, Catherine Day, Associated Content, 24 January 2011
FEBRUARY 2011
- Evaluating training and learning circa 2011, Tom Gram, Performance x Design, 17 February 2011
- The rise of informal learning: is your organization capitalizing this? Midcourse corrections, 16 February 2011
- The effects of Twitter in an online learning environment, Logan Rath, 15 February 2011
- Smarter work mit Social Media Skills, Andrea Back, Business 2.0, 10 February 2011
- DearKirkpatricks: you still don’t get it, trainingwreck, 12 February 2011
- 5 reasons why corporate social tools fail, WebWorkerDaily, 9 February 2011
- The connected company, Dave Gray, Communication Nation, 8 February 2011
- The secret to e-learning, Anna Timms, Guardian, 5 February 2011
- Time’s up - Learning will always be part formal, part informal and part social, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 6 February 2011
- Twaining in Twitter, Terence Wing, Learning solutions magazine, 3 February 2011
- Social Media Metrics, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 1 February 2011
JANUARY 2011
- A case for social learning, Harold Jarche, 26 January 2011
- Inside the mind of a community manager, getSatisfaction, 24 January 2011
- Headlines are not reality, Jay Cross, Internet Time blog, 22 January 2011
- Social learning for business, Harold Jarche, 20 January 2011
- When I grow up – we never intended to work this way, Kevin Jones, Engaged Learning, 11 January 2011
- Lurking is learning (Part 1 of 2), Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 8 January 2011
- Lurking is Learning (Part 2 of 2) Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 14 January 2011
- How to build a personal learning network online, Alex Howard, Storify, 8 January 2011
- Buzzing with social curation tools, Zaid Alsagoff, ZaidLearn, 8 January 2011
- Lost in translation, Charles Jennings, 8 January 2011
- Learning with and from others, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 6 January 2011
- Learning face-off with Facebook, Terrence Wing, 6 January 2011
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. it’s Quora, David Hopkinson, don’t waste your time, 6 January 2011
- The 101 most useful websites (PDF) Digital Inspiration, January 2011
- Quora: a social network built for learning, Instructional design fusions, 3 January 2011
- Calling shades of gray “black and white”, Jay Cross, Informal Learning blog, 2 January 2011
- What it takes to be a great employer, Tony Schwartz, Harvard Business Review, 3 January 2011
- Top 5 social media trends for 2011, GilyGily, 1 January 2011
- Interdependence: a sense of purpose, Harold Jarche, 2 January 2011
- (Reflection) learning management system, Bert De Coutere, Homo Compotens, 2 January 2011
- How does social learning measure up? Karie Wilyerd and Gene A Pease, ASTD, January 2011








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