Web2.0 | Learn to Adapt

Jul 24

Learn to Adapt Links for July 23rd through July 24th

by Jeff Kelly

Social Bookmarking For Enterprise Knowledge Management | Intelligent Agent -
Social learning: An emerging trend - 14 Jul 2008 - Elliot Masie shares his insights into the rise in social learning and the challenges it poses for the global training community.

Jul 16

by Jeff Kelly

enterprise 2.0 … it’s this simple, see « pm blog - Mazy Hedayat posts a deliciously complex and confusing diagram that summarizes all the moving parts of Enterprise 2.0. A bit tough to read or use for learning, but it is a great summary…
Why Companies Need Web 2.0 - Forbes.com - No new news here, but Mike Schaffner summarizes how "Web 2.0" (cringe) technologies must be adopted by companies to remain competitive.
Tear down the broadcast towers - BuzzMachine » Blog Archive - Jeff Jarvis posits on how Web video and radio "could" make broadcast obsolete. Best part of the post is the comments. The way we consume media is changing dramatically and it will impact how we use media to teach.
Grockit - About Us - Learning 2.0 - From the site: "Grockit is Learning 2.0. Grockit is about questioning together. To this end, we are developing an online learning game where people can teach each other." I look forward to seeing the game!

Jul 07

by Jeff Kelly

Google, Zen Master of the Market - News Analysis - NYTimes.com - “The source of Google’s competitive advantage is learning by doing,” said Hal R. Varian, Google’s chief economist. One of the hallmarks of Learning 2.0 will be easy, inexpensive experimentation - learning through mistakes.
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn’t make us smarter? - O’Reilly Radar - Tim O'Reilly conference ad (with quote from John Battelle) discusses how it is time to move beyond the consumer-centric euphoria of social computing (Web 2.0) and start using the new found power to improve society.
The Future of Instruction: Teacher as ‘Co-Learner’ : June 2008 : THE Journal - Now you're talking. Forget the sage on the stage, and even beyond the curious curator, change is so fast that effective teachers will adopt the role of wise co-learner.

Jul 03

by Jeff Kelly

The Amorality of Web 2.0 - Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: - Nicholas Carr's 2005 post that postulates Web 2.0 social knowledge capture (Wikipedia fo instance) may have a net negative effect on society by displacing more expensive professional alternatives. (And boy is he right about blogosphere echolalia).
Groundswell - Winning ia a World Transformed by Social Technologies - A great page supporting their Groundswell book, includes two ten-minute clips of Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff talking about how companies can use Web 2.0 technologies to empower people in their organizations (Enterprise 2.0).

Jul 02

by Jeff Kelly

Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory - An updated view of the Long Tail. No big news here - it has always been an "leverage the tail in addition to the head" not a "leverage the tail instead of the head" proposition.
Dawn of the Un-book — Internet Time Blog - Jay Cross takes a look at the decline of book readership and proposes the "un-book" to consumerize authors work. Includes interesting statistics about book reading in the US