2009 March | Learn to Adapt

Mar 27

L2A Links for March 26th

by Jeff Kelly

AOL: People Like It Now More Than Ever – ReadWriteWeb – The once and future king?
YouTube EDU – Free College Lectures – YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and many more.

Mar 26

by Jeff Kelly

Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y – the Facebook Generation – Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 – WSJ – Gary provides a great summary of how organizations and leaders will have to function differently once the "Facebook generation" is in power. I especially like #11: Intrinsic rewards matter most. Extrinsic rewards (read bonu$e$) are having a success backlash and may actually undermine performance and job satisfaction. Traditional organization structure and function is in for some radical changes.
Government Agencies Make Friends With New Media | Epicenter from Wired.com – A very important legal hurdle has been crossed to free Federal agencies to start leveraging the power of social media. This will be a wonderful boon in fed's ability to share learning and information.
Crowdsourcing Examples – Anjali Ramachandran, a strategist at London based digital agency Many by Many, has compiled a very useful list of 135 real-world examples of businesses leveraging crowd contributions online.

Mar 25

by Jeff Kelly

Holy Cow, The White House Has a Digg Clone – ReadWriteWeb – As I head to the Gov 2.0 conference this weekend, it is exciting to see how quickly the new administration is experimenting with social web strategies for opening up government to the people (it is supposed to be ours, right?). Huge opportunity for all of government to make civic participation more available to everyone!
Sharepoint and Enterprise 2.0: The good, the bad, and the ugly | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion does a great analysis is the oft-selected Microsoft Sharepoint as "Enterprise 2.0" solution.

Mar 16

by Jeff Kelly

Workplace Learning Professionals Next Job – Management Consultant : eLearning Technology – Tony Karrer pulls together thoughts and responses to the question of what workplace learning will look like in 10 years. I agree that the work will move to "management consultant" (though I would have selected "performance consultant"). But I don't agree there will be continued need for "Enterprise 2.0" and "Knowledge Management". I think those ideas will become as much of an anachronisms as "desktop publishing"or "information technologies" as the tools become as much a part of the way we work as phones, electricity of language. Less and less formalized learning will be needed and the real role of learning professionals will be in process improvement consulting.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky – The always enlightening Clay Shirky chimes in with a meandering piece that finally resolves into the very wise observation that we should not be trying to figure out how to save newspapers, we should be trying to figure out how to save journalism.

Mar 10

by Jeff Kelly

Enterprise Web vs Consumer Web [2.0]: Top Six Differences | SocialComputingMagazine.com – Jeremy Chone provides a tidy little list of how the vastly different environments of Web 2.0 vs. Enterprise 2.0 require different architecture and governance.
Skittles.com: Chat the rainbow. Taste the Rainbow. – Skittles.com may have set the new pinnacle in social media strategy. They have changed the skittles/com homepage into a Twitter feed of what people are posting about Skittles. An amazing new entry into social marketing. Geek consumption of Skittles expected to jump by more than 50%!