Learn to Adapt

• Government 2.0: How Social Media Could Transform Gov PR | PBS – Mark Drapeau shares a thoughtful post on how Government can adopt Web 2.0 tools to communicate better with the people they represent.
• Do you really need enterprise social computing? Answer here. – Newsgator poses 25 questions about your specific workplace and its information needs, collaboration requirements, knowledge work, IT challenges, customer base and competitive landscape. Then it scores your organization on a zero-to-100 scale depending on the urgency of the need for enterprise social computing technology.

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A week or so ago, I was invited to chat with the folks at Inmagic about the current and future state of knowledge management and its relationship to social media.  They recorded the conversation for a podcast. I will leave it to their fine prose to explain the call (only adding that I was a biologist once – B.S in Biology from Purdue University – and I still don’t like the sound of my own voice ;o).

After you listen to the podcast, I would love to hear your thoughts on the conversation and whether you have encountered any resistance to social media from knowledge management practitioners.

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• I Know It When I See It : Andrew McAfee’s Blog – Great post from Andy's new blog helps define what Enterprise 2.0 looks like.
• How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic – ReadWriteWeb –
• Streaming video cannibalizing DVD rentals, says Netflix – Ars Technica – Yet another sign that the days of physical media are numbered as more people get their entertainment content delivered direct from the cloud.

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• New MIT Sloan School site offers free teaching materials
• A Social Media Capability Maturity Model: Part I
• 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009 : eLearning Technology
• Communities of Learners Redefined: Customized Networks That Impact Learning
• Is your Organization Talent Ready? – Margaret Schweer (from nGenera) post a very nice summary of how talent is changing in this flat world. Great introduction to how people must work differently and Next Generation Enterprises. Note the link at the bottom to a survey you can take to assess your own readiness to contribute.

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• louisgray.com: There’s No Way Twitter Is Worth $250 Million Today – Part One of Louis Gray's bipolar analysis of Twitter's value. (you got to give him points for due diligence on both sides of this coin ;o)
• louisgray.com: Twitter Is Worth A Lot More Than $250 Million – Part One of Louis Gray's bipolar analysis of Twitter's value.
• Novel approaches to sequences of learning « John W Lewis – John Lewis with a thoughtful proposal: "We believe that by exploring innovative disclosure sequences, the effectiveness of training can be dramatically improved." I tend to agree – there have been many times when I have re-ordered the design of past-developed courses and found them to be much more effective.

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