In 2010 I bookmarked nearly 350 articles in my 2010 Reading List, but here are my 100 favourite articles, postings, presentations, etc of the year. I fed all the titles into Wordle to identify the main themes of the year.
January
- 5 reasons why your company doesn’t need a social media policy, Michael Hyatt, 14 January 2010
- >Social networking as a learning tool, Robin Talkowski, 16 January 2010
- Four ways user generated content can make its way into formal learning, Dawn Poulos, Xyleme Insider, 20 January 2010
- 2010 Horizon Report,, (PDF, Educause and New Media Consortium, January 2010
February
- How IBM uses social media to spur employee innovation, Casey Hibbard, Social Media Examiner, 2 February 2010
- Encourage the use of social media at work, HBR Management Tip of the Day, 3 February 2010
- Microblogging is good for leadership, good for your culture, Dan Pontefract, trainingwreck, 6 February 2010
- Where social learning thrives, Marcia Conner, Fast Company, 11 February 2010
- A framework for social learning in the enterprise, Harold Jarche, 24 February 2010
March
- 5 Examples of How Schools Are Using Social Media to Enhance Learning buzzmarketing daily, 5 March
2010 - Why social media policies don’t work, Mathew Ingram, GigaOm, 12 March 2010
- How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists, Jay Rosen, PressThink, 17 March 2010
- Learning 2.0: The impact of social media on learning in Europe, (PDF) JRC European Commission, 2010
April
- Nuts and bolts: when training works, Jane Bozarth, Learning Solutions Magazine, 6 April 2010
- Five barriers to effective learning in organisations, Charles Jennings, 7 April 2010
- Social learning tools should not be separate from Enterprise 2.0, Tony Karrer, eLearning technology, 7 April 2010
- Agility and Autonomy, Harold Jarche, 12 April 2010
- Collaboration and Cooperation, Stephen Downes, 12 April 2010
- Top 10 use cases enterprise microsharing will help you get less email, elsua.net, 15 April 2010
- Use microblogging to increase productivity, Jeanne Meister and Karie Wilyerd, Harvard Business Review, 15 April 2010
- Less is more: A different approach to L&D in a world awash with information, Charles Jennings, first posted TrainingZone, 19 April 2010
- 7 tips for successful self-learning, Measuring Measures, 19 April 2010
- Formalized informal learning: a blend we don’t need, Harold Jarche, 21 April 2010
- How to get employee generated content …, Betsy Weber, The Visual Lounge, 27 April 2010
- Education 2.0: the importance of ownership, Rob Tucker, O’Reilly Radar, 30 April 2010
May
- Build trust, not control, The Performance Improvement blog, 3 May 2010
- How effective are social corporate media policies, eMarketer, 3 May 2010
- Social media: it’s not about the technology! Ryan Tracey, 4 May 2010
- Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh), Eric Qualman, Socialnomics, 5 May 2010
- 5 differences between social media and social networking, Sarah Hartshorn, Social Media Today, 5 May 2010
- LMS is no longer the centre of the universe, Harold Jarche, 5 May 2010
- A case for the LMS? Clark Quinn, 6 May 2010
- Identifying a collaboration platform, Harold Jarche, 6 May 2010
- 5 stages of workspace evolution, Jay Cross, 7 May 2010
- Why bash the LMS? Clark Quinn, 10 May 2010
- When to LMS, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 18 May 2010
- Take this LMS and shove it, Gary Wise, 19 Mary 2010
- Can your workplace adopt/embrace the informal learning concept?Design for Learning, 26 May 2010
- ID – Instructional design or interactivity design in an interconnected world, Charles Jennings, 28 May 2010
- The Social Employee Manifesto, Michael Fauscette, Smart Data Collective, 28 May 2010
- Learning on the job (PDF), Charles Jennings, efmd.org, Vol 4,
Issue 1, 2010
June
- Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises, Charles Jennings, 19 June 2010
- How HR is using social media to its advantage, Jon Ingham, PersonnelToday, 23 June 2010
- Training needs to change or risk irrelevance, Donald Taylor, first appeared on TrainingZone, 28 June 2010
- Leadership development in a Learning 2.0 world, Tom Gram, Performance x design, 31 May 2010
July
- Do You Know Where Your Employee’s Smartphone Is? TTKN, 2 July 2010
- Social media employee policy examples from over 100 organisations, SocialMediaToday, 3 July 2010
- Learning to change report, Mark Berthelemy, 6 July 2010
- Is the formal training room obsolete, (PDF) Laura Overton, first appeared on TrainingZone, 26 July 2010
- You can’t ban Facebook, Ben Betts, stoatly different, 30 July 2010
- 8 reasons to focus on informal and social learning, Charles Jennings, Slideshare, July 31
- Push to Pull: Exploring training models, Charles Jennings, Training Industry Quarterly, July 2010
- 7 things you should know about alternatives to the LMS, (PDF) Educause, July 2010
- 44 benefits of collaborative learning, The Global Development Research Center
August
- Using a Facebook group as an LMS, 2 August 2010
- Why online learning needs to get social, Marco Masoni, Mashable, 6 August 2010
- What Twitter has done for me, Jamie Forrest, 7 August 2010
- Facebook as an instructional technology tool, K Walsh, Emerging EdTech, 11 August 2010
- The LMS must die, Mark Berthelemey, Learning Conversations, 16 August 2010
- 3 ways CEOs can connect with employees, Ragan, 19 August 2010
- How managers learn in their own words, Good Practice, 22 August 2010
- The evolving social organisation, Harold Jarche, 25 August 2010
- Thomson Reuters new social media guidelines, August 2010
September
- Are “Consumer” Collaboration Tools Good Enough for the Enterprise? WebWorker Daily, 9 September 2010
- Social learning: the video, LAB SSJ, YouTube 9 September 2010
- Marcia Conner on Transforming Organisations through Social Media and Social Learning, Social Nerdia, 18 September 2010
- The catalyst to accelerated learning and performance, Lars Hyland, Lars is Learning, 22 September 2010
- Shifting perspectives, Clark Quinn, Learnlets, 23 September 2010
- Face to Facebook learning, Marcia Conner, Fast Company, 29 September 2010
- Working Smarter in Terra Nova Circa 2015, Internet Time Alliance Team, eLearn Magazine, 28 September 2010
- The case for social media in schools, Mashable, 29 September 2010
October
- The value of social media to learning, Nick Shackleton-Jones, aconventional, 3 October 2010
- How to evaluate e-learning, Jane Bozarth, Learning Solutions Magazine, 5 October 2010
- Network era and freedom, Jay Cross, Informl Learning, 12 October 2010
- Is Your Training Path Full of Traffic Lights (Instead of Roads)? Trina Rimmer, Mindflash, 18 October 2010
- Network Learning: Working Smarter, Harold Jarche, 22 October 2010
- Does the HRD industry have a future, Tim Baker, TJ, 27 October 2010
- Don’t lecture me, Donald Clark, YouTube, September 2010
November
- Taking the social media plunge: Learning to let go, Andy McAfee, Fortune Magazine, 1 November 2010
- Questions I’m no longer asking, George Siemens, elearnspace, 2 November 2010
- How Facebook and Twitter are replacing blogging, Jeff Bercovici, Forbes, 4 November 2010
- Fix the workplace, not the workers, Dan Pink, Telegraph, 6 November 2010
- Education 2.0 Social Networking and Education, Mark Horton, Socialcast, 7 November 2010
- 6 ways social media is changing education, Mind Shift, 9 November 2010
- Making connections, Harold Jarche, 9 November 2010
- It’s YOUR privacy: Own it!, Jane Bozarth, 13 November 2010
- Can Facebook be a social learning network, Audrey Watters, ReadWriteWeb, 16 November 2010
- Why Twitter matters for media organisations, Alan Rusbridger, Guardian, 19 November 2010
- Your social intranet is where work gets done, Dachis Group Collaboratory, 20 November 2010
- Transparent work, Harold Jarche, 21 November 2010
- Reflection on a presentation, Social Media and Social Networks, David Hopkins, Dont Waste your Time, 26 November 2010
December
- Twas the night before social media, Dave Kelly, Misadventures in Learning, 3 December 2010
- What a year, Josh Bersin, Chief Learning Officer, 3 December 2010
- Top 10 success factors in social and collaborative investments, Tom Austin, Gartner, 3 December 2010
- The role of the educator, Stephen Downes, The Huffington Post, 5 December 2010
- 5 strategies for supporting bottom-up social media use, Michele Martin, Bamboo Project, 7 December 2010
- An operational attitude towards learning, Karyn Romeis, 17 December 2010
- 6 trends that will change workplace learning forever, ASTD, December 2010
- Overcoming bipolar thinking, Jay Cross, Informal Learning, 24 December 2010
- “LMS sinks Titanic” and other learning myths, Gary Wise, Living in Learning, 28 December 2010
