Brent MacKinnon's List: SoMe - Mod 4 social learning

Excellent list of 5 reasons why...But do these systems work? And why might trying to bring social tools inside your gated corporate walls fail? Here are just a few reasons for corporate social networking failure — and ways to avoid them..

A few good tips on practicing network weaving.

Great slideshare
Networked learning, or PKM, was a main topic of discussion this week, as many people asked how I had the time to do all of this reading, annotating and content creation. For me, it’s part of my work flow and it creates extremely valuable knowledge artifacts that I can re-use.

good explanation and graph showing concepts

working smarter explained

"Even the mainstream training field is realizing that reduced layers of bureaucracy mean decision-making gets pushed down the organization chart. This is the message of the AMA in the promotional video – Critical Thinking: Not just a C-suite skill. However, wirearchy takes this one important step further by advocating a two-way flow of power and authority. In both cases, the need for critical thinking is evident. Here is Edward Glaser’s definition:"

Teamwork is over-rated, in my opinion. It can be a smoke screen for office bullies to coerce fellow workers. The economic stick often hangs over the team; “be a team player or lose your job”.

The Pros of Creating Your Own Community
So with all of the existing communities out there, what’s the benefit of creating your own?

I mentioned in my last post that the term “personal knowledge management” (PKM) does not adequately describe the sense-making process that I attribute to it. It’s rather obvious that knowledge cannot be managed, as Dave Jonassen has said many times:

The figure below is what Clark and I developed as an initial concept on the digital artifacts of social media. As one moves from content creation to contextualization (through grouping, tagging or rating), the potential network effects increase. This gets greater as people connect to the artifacts (through comments, linking or discussion) and then to co-creation, such as mashups or remixes. The basic idea is that as more people manipulate digital objects and give them meaning and context then these objects will gain in value.

Odds are your nonprofit has a “Company Page” on LinkedIn. If any of your past staff, interns, or volunteers have a personal profile on LinkedIn and they have added their position at your nonprofit to their work “Experience,” then your nonprofit does indeed have a LinkedIn Company Page. If not, then you can easily create one.

Just a quick follow-up to Maggie’s post on Community Management 101. Rachel Happe of the Community Roundtable pointed us to her slide deck on “Community Management Fundamentals” in the comments; I wanted to make sure everyone sees it. Thanks, Rachel!

Today someone said something which still has me reeling hours later: “Facebook will eventually replace websites.” Was this person the first to ever have said it? Surely not. But it was the first time I’ve ever heard an actual person say it, and I’m telling you, it freaked me out that someone could honestly believe something so crazy to be true. I was taken aback at the time and didn’t respond; now that I’ve had a few hours for it to sink in, let me say here what I should have said then: THAT IS THE WORST IDEA EVER.

The social media revolution – the phenomenon that has my mother friend-ing me on Facebook and asking me what “following on Twitter” means – is more about society than it is about media. In a similar way, the differences in the ways small businesses and big enterprises engage social media are more about social structure and organizational dynamics than they are about media tactics.

Social media is a deeply personal ecosystem that I lovingly refer to as the EGOsystem. As such, there is a “me” in social media for a reason. It is quite literally a world in which we are at the center of our online experiences, a place where everything and everyone revolves around us.

Marcia is a Partner at Altimeter Group, creates strategies for collaborative culture, social business, and workplace learning with enterprise leaders and technology providers who serve them. She’s a Fellow at the Darden School of Business,
founder of the Twitter chat #lrnchat, and writes the Fast Company column “Learn at All Levels.” A 20-year veteran of the enterprise market, Marcia was information futurist and vice president of education services for PeopleSoft and senior manager of worldwide training at Microsoft.
She is also the author of Learn More Now and coauthor of Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Practice & Technology
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The webinar took place Febuary 18th

From social media to social strategy
Corporate marketers by and large struggle with how to use social networking sites to reach potential customers, says Piskorski, who advises companies on this subject. The problem is that execs think of online social networks as social media and treat it as another channel to get people to click through to a site.

nice paper on learning by jay cross
(Heraclitus) of Ephesus wrote, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Everything flows and nothing abides. Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe. If we do not exepect the unexpected, we will never find it.” He was ahead of his time. 

Seven Principles of Learning
From extensive fieldwork, IRL developed seven Principles of Learning that provide important guideposts for organizations. These are not “Tablets from Moses.” They are evolving as a work in progress. However, it is already clear that they have broad application in countless settings. Think of them in relation to your own experience.