tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42900635370788021502024-02-19T17:04:28.949-05:00LearningZealotAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-19211558985234832442015-09-08T15:25:00.001-04:002015-09-08T15:25:50.941-04:00Goodbye from the Learning Zealot
Sunrise or sunset? Each day we are blessed to receive both. Brilliant moments in time. This blog has been a brilliant moment in time for me. Blogger made life very easy, it was my space to write and reflect and start or add to conversations. Those conversations changed me over the years. My journey as an ISD, then as manager of L&D has taken another step. This time putting learning in it'sAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-9085086307280740482015-08-13T14:47:00.001-04:002015-08-13T14:47:28.071-04:00Changing Words. Changing Practices. Changing Culture. Part II
Several months ago I wrote the first post of this title. In it I shared how through continual conversation and examples I was able to help some key stakeholders stop calling everything training when it came to a performance solution. The idea being that change happens one conversation at a time and that maybe to shift a culture we need to begin by changing the words we use. Words are powerful inAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-58587590565067961202015-08-10T12:10:00.000-04:002015-08-10T12:10:38.312-04:00Social Media Is Like a Light
Social media is often criticized for bringing out the ugliness of society. But isn't that what we want!? What we need?! Racism, sexism, ageism, the "isms" have been able to hide for far to long and social media works to ferret them out for everyone to see. The latest example was brought to light by the posting of a quote by Engineer, Isis Wegner of OneLogin along with her image in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-30593969292527813792015-08-06T13:26:00.001-04:002015-08-06T13:26:21.970-04:00Social Tools: Organizational Learning's Uber
I had my first Uber service recently in Austin, TX. It was nothing short of remarkable. A few glitches (mostly self caused) but a far better experience than I have ever had in a cab. It was during this ride, and conversation with my driver William, that I made a few connections between business, learning and needs. It's got me to thinking that if content, context and connection Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-19532912989177440562015-07-28T11:18:00.001-04:002015-07-28T11:18:03.229-04:00Lead Social By Leading With Social
A colleague and friend who I regularly chat with, where we bounce ideas and thoughts off each other, is at the cusp of where many folks leading the social charge in organizations are; helping key leaders and stakeholder to build awareness and better understanding of the value of being more social themselves.
Meetings are being set, slides developed, activities, agendas, use cases Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-89619285906214632492015-07-22T14:06:00.000-04:002015-07-22T14:06:46.149-04:00Embraceable Me
Yesterday Tracy Parish challenged me to do a #Blimage. If you are unfamiliar, this is an interesting and fun approach to inspiring a blog post. It was introduced by Steve Wheeler and friends and the original post can be found here. Tracy wrote an excellent post based on an image of a cemetery titled Learning While Wandering. I enjoyed that she looked at learning very personally versus Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-60535249764231663612015-07-13T16:08:00.000-04:002015-07-20T11:45:30.573-04:00Choices, Choices
When I was a kid we had about 7 maybe 8 television channels (I grew up somewhere between rabbit ears and cable). It was easy then to decide what to watch or if to watch at all. Today though I can have options of up to 650 channels. Do I need that many? No. Are most worth my time? No. But I will experiment and give some a chance. If I find value, they stay in my line up. If not they are quicklyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-65400633183409516622015-07-13T15:18:00.002-04:002015-07-13T15:20:59.356-04:00Losing the Soul of Social
Technology can extend the human condition but it can also work to dehumanize, transforming the sincere ideals of community and relationships into exploitable resources. The vendor marketing machines have lots of money and content marketing is their new effort to turn spin doctors into gurus as they work to convince you they are not selling but educating. Let the buyer beware.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-47444531170936072122015-06-30T12:33:00.000-04:002015-06-30T12:33:05.127-04:00Conversation Brings Change, Naturally
I've been thinking about Media Naturalness theory for some time. Well, more often it just pops up because it's not like I've invested all than much effort into it. In short, if you're not familiar, Media Naturalness Theory is the idea that human beings were built for face-to-face communication over thousands of years of evolution. Our gestures, voice inflection, eye movement, body language all Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-28553831347821648032015-06-19T11:41:00.000-04:002015-06-19T11:43:51.803-04:00Big Social Isn't Always Best
I've been thinking more about how Social has become SO big, so fast. Maybe it's having been in Texas recently (where everything is bigger!) for mLearnCon last week or it's because I've been reading a lot of Stowe Boyd's reviews and research tied into his ideas on "sets vs. scenes." Social is not necessarily getting bigger in the sense of popularity but in the sense Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-16790610796845780922015-06-03T11:51:00.002-04:002015-06-03T11:51:58.710-04:00The Open Office: Right Idea, Wrong ApproachIn a not so recent article (Dec 2014) criticizing the open office idea as getting it wrong and ruining the workplace, the author ranted about how negatively disruptive this disruptive approach has been in her own circumstance. To that I say exactly- it's not for everyone. Organizations are as unique as fingerprints and if companies don't first understand the nature of the work being Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-47131314126418431302015-05-26T14:54:00.002-04:002015-05-26T14:54:35.781-04:00We Don't Do Social Here
Implement, Do, Start, Launch, are all terms that indicate a program or project is underway. It's the language of the business initiative. But when these words precede the action of "Social", it's a bit perplexing.
We don't "do" social, we are social.
Being social is just connecting, communicating, and sharing usually with the key action of conversing. Don't let anyone tell youAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-68271519213949145252015-05-19T11:14:00.001-04:002015-05-19T11:14:32.034-04:00Network Navigating
I've written recently about the futility of organizational internal social efforts. Their efforts to corral conversations into an ESN is ineffective and short sighted. Wirearchy is here. It exists with or without ones conscious effort as our networks extend in multiple directions and multiple "places." We will go to where our people are and if our people overlap, all the better, but Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-23221726322298222962015-05-15T12:27:00.001-04:002015-05-15T12:27:21.291-04:00From The Business of Learning to The Learning Business
As you may have heard, about 3 weeks ago I joined the eLearning Guild and will be working closely with the learning community and onsite events. It's a small step in my employment journey but a large leap in my career. So, how's it going so far? Really good. I am getting immersed in the processes and people that make up this organization and contributing immediately where I can. I'm also being Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-73817491227728476482015-05-08T15:09:00.000-04:002015-05-13T09:06:28.325-04:00The "Working" Culture and the Struggles of Social Business
Tim Kastelle recently shared his excellent post about flat management efforts at Zappos and how they paid about 210 people to leave if they didn't like the direction of the organization. He went on to point out that in the past 12 days over 15,000 people were laid off in various industries (which can be seen on a site that tracks daily layoffs) as an exclamation Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-41759825481038557712015-04-15T11:34:00.002-04:002015-04-15T12:00:56.837-04:00Social Inconvenience is ImportantSocial networking is not always convenient. Our networks can be large, small, and many are in niche areas of interest but in all we've historically driven for miles, run in groups, flown to new cities, met in questionable venues and navigated personality differences to connect with the people that matter.
The inconvenience of connecting with our network is never so great to dismiss them, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-64815777409302838522015-03-17T11:00:00.000-04:002015-03-18T11:47:55.660-04:00Hook 'em When They're Young
In the late 1980's the R.J. Reynold's tobacco company used a cartoon Joe Camel character to market it's cigarettes. The company received heavy criticism for what was seen as an insidious effort to get children to start smoking early> create a habit> get addicted >stay a smokers for life... a life which we know would be greatly shortened. Well, if it was an intentional effortAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-6427678260213643462015-03-11T14:13:00.000-04:002015-03-11T14:26:35.407-04:00Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks
Ah the tentative marriage of Democracy and Capitalism. When times are financially good, incumbents win. When times are tough, the public moves to "throw the bums out!" In many organizations L&D is the long serving incumbent and as we know when organizational times get tough, L&D seems to be the first "bum" to get the boot. But what if the organization is profitable and divisionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-88015077421989232812015-03-09T10:36:00.002-04:002015-03-09T10:36:59.808-04:00Social Inception
Have you seen the movie Inception? It's a fantastic sci-fi film where people infiltrate other people's subconscious while they sleep and remove information or, in the case of the title, plant an idea. When the person awakens, they think the idea is their own.
Now I do believe that the same idea can spring up independently from different people in different locations at the same Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-76071754625467747722015-03-05T14:01:00.002-05:002015-04-03T11:45:33.939-04:00L&Ds Business Is Not In Driving Social Business
I'm becoming more convinced that organizational efforts to help people build social networks and personal knowledge management skills should not involve L&D any more than the Accounting department. And it appears it not just me. Sam Burrough and Martin Couzins recently co-led a MOOC on Social Learning and asked the question in a final Tweetchat: "What role should L&D play in Social Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-2880766598718612062015-02-17T13:27:00.001-05:002015-02-17T13:27:26.604-05:00Enter the Rectangle
Today when we encounter a little white rectangle on a screen, we instinctively know what to do don't we?
Keyboard + interface with a text box = type.
We also know through experience that selecting publish, send, post, or tweet can initiate a change in both ourselves and others, yet so many still hesitate or refuse to try. What really prevents people from engaging is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-79143129650556968692015-02-10T15:01:00.003-05:002015-02-10T15:01:48.636-05:00Shortening the Social Tool Learning Curve with Open Office Hours We strove from the onset to make the technical part of social networking as easy as possible and really modified our ESN platform to focus on the basic elements of social; community, collaboration and sharing. No frills, no unnecessary functionality. Our strategy has been "grease the wheel only when it squeaks," meaning that we will present functionality and features when the needs arise. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-10408636090334050522015-01-30T12:48:00.001-05:002015-01-30T12:48:08.650-05:00Practice Makes Permanent
James Tyer and I co-authored this post to share that we are hosting a workshop in Orlando on March 24th at the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions 2015 conference 'Kick-start Your Personal and Organizational Social Learning Journey'. We have created the agenda based on our experiences developing and supporting personal and organizational social learning practices. The workshop Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-1452612929933083102015-01-27T14:36:00.001-05:002015-02-06T15:02:56.486-05:00Our Social Reflex
While being carried, an infant may lose its balance and unconsciously, instinctively, grab on to their mothers. This is known as the Moro Reflex and it is considered to be a sign of our only unlearned fear. For the infant, to disconnect is an emotional and physical fear, possibly one of short-term pain, long-term loss or ultimately death. According to researchAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290063537078802150.post-22002134578382801502014-12-05T09:02:00.001-05:002014-12-05T09:05:54.425-05:00Of Social Tools And Toys
"Twitter is for morons and b-level actors."
I remember reading this in a Newsweek article in 2009. Funny thing is five years later I find many still believe this, and why not? Traditional media and late night talk show hosts do a wonderful job of highlighting only the harmful and the humorous. But what they don't know is how powerful this and other social tools are too many people for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09903901686760230505noreply@blogger.com0