Julian Stodd wrote about this a couple of months ago and it’s stuck with me. As he says, it needs a different mindset but not just individually – that needs to be a collective mindset. Each of us will have different minimum tolerance about how collective we wish to be. That’s why Harold Jarche’s Seek Sense… Read More A Social Movement
People are already building their own online learning by searching for solutions (with Google) and saving resources for themselves (with Flip, Pocket and simple bookmarks). They’re sifting and filtering content (from YouTube, TED talks and Google Scholar), taking courses to develop themselves (MOOCs) and are documenting it for themselves publicly (on blogs) or privately (within documents). They’re sharing… Read More One question
I saw a tweet on my timeline the other week linking to a story on the BBC website which piqued my interest. In the past I might have noted it and thought about how we might try something similar. This has changed now in the new social age as agility and informal approaches rise to the fore. I… Read More Just what is social?
I wrote a while back about culture and heavy metal. On the morning it was published I got the usual surge in views on the blog but something else happened. This day was a bit different. One of the blog subscribers read it and decided to seek me out. It’s someone I’ve known professionally for a… Read More Rock or bust
This post is being published as I’m speaking at the CIPD Annual Conference under the title “Advancing L&D to Create the Learning Practitioners of the Future”. It’s a long title which can be summarised in a few words: If we fail to change we die My session is co-delivered, brief, and focused, containing less in terms of content… Read More Advancing L and D