Learn to Adapt

• 7 Easy, Powerful Steps to Create a Personal Learning Environment - A nice step-by-step summary from Ahmir Ahmad on how to create a personal learning environment (PLE) since "Self-education is the ultimate form of personal-development …"
• Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] - Dion's take on Twitter and it's possible use in in business. Just the title "Endless Conversation" speaks volumes to my concern that Twitter has a negative impact on productivity instead of a positive impact on collaboration communication.

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• From The Information Age To The Connected Age - GigaOM - An insightful post from Anne Zelenka on "how the web enables us to move from one era into another, from the Information Age to the Connected Age."
• Understanding productivity in the Information Age - MIT Sloan Newsroom - In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an “information hub”

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These are my links for May 12th:

• Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb - A glimpse into the explosion of crowdsourcing sources. This will have a huge impact in the way organizations staff, work, and produce. People must learn to hone the social network skills and work with ad-hoc teams.
• Digital Age Assessment: Part 2 > April 22, 2008 - From Harry Grover Tuttle (I'm not making that name up): "A look at how technology use in formative assessments improves feedback and reporting opportunities."

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These are my links for May 7th through May 8th:

• How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) - From Jakob Nielsen: Why it is important to keep your text short and simple. From the article: “On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.”
• Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - From the article: “…brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.”
• Recruiting 3.0: Web Advances Change the Landscape - Interesting workforce recruiting article from WSJ: “Advances in technology make the way jobs are found and filled online distinctly different from just a few years ago.”
• Human Resources 2.0 - HR World - Arrrrrrgggghhhh!! Enough with the “2.0″ monikers! I suppose the title is inevitable and Jennifer McAdams does a fast pass at Web 2.0 without discussing the obvious HR issues of privacy, transparency, and possible worker productivity drops.
• List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples - Best practices - Open innovation and crowdsourcing - Great list of crowdsourcing and open innovation projects and resources.
• Techdirt: Ideas Are Everywhere… So Why Do We Limit Them? - Mike Masnick’s thoughts on the Gladwell article (below). He hits the nail on the head by defining: “Innovation isn’t idea generation. Innovation is taking an idea and making it do something useful.”
• Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - Very interesting New Yorker article from Malcom Gladwell on how “the history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.” Has great implication for the theory of diversity being a primary driver of innovation.
• Wirearchy :: Retrospective on KM and the Impact of Web 2.0 - “…it’s always useful to look back every once in a while, if only to see how far and fast (or not) we’ve come since this Web thing started to penetrate more deeply and spread more widely into the workplace.”

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These are my links for April 22nd through April 23rd:

• Blog Learning : eLearning Technology - Tony's take on the power of blogs as a learning tool. True for established bloggers with the time/incentive to blog and who build up a network of cohorts. But for the average Joe's blogs give reflection opportunities - valuable, but not unigue to blogs.
• Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload - This comes up more and more in the questions at the events I deliver. People are increasingly concerned about the productivity impacts of Web 2.0 platforms. If your employee Twitters all day, does her performance improve?
• Whitepapers - Building a collaborative workplace - Anecdote lays out a series of steps for developing your organization's collaboration capability and includes a simple test of your current collaboration capability.
• The Future of Technology: Total Convergence and the “Media Explosion” - Interesting bit of crystal ball gazing about how we will consume media in the future. Lots of interesting extrapolation possibilities about how we may consume knowledge and learning as well!

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