Best of Working Smarter Daily
January 1, 2011 to December 17, 2011
Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. Here’s how we choose the crème de la crème for your enjoyment.
The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.
- Network thinking– Harold Jarche, December 15, 2011
- 5 Stages of Workplace Learning (Revisited)– Jane Hart, December 6, 2011
- 12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead– Ross Dawson, December 4, 2011
- Open Learning Analytics: A proposal– George Siemens, December 10, 2011
- The connected company– Dave Gray, February 8, 2011
- Flip the classroom – every teacher should do this– Donald Clark Plan B, March 17, 2011
- What if Flickr fails?– Doc Searls , January 12, 2011
- Losing interest in social media: there is no there there– George Siemens, July 30, 2011
- A sense of bewronging– Doc Searls , April 2, 2011
- 2011 Top 100 Tools List and Presentation finalised– Jane Hart, November 14, 2011
- The Fallacy of Digital Natives– Dan Pontefract, October 17, 2011
- Recording can improve a bad lecture! 7 surprising facts about recorded lectures– Donald Clark Plan B, September 17, 2011
- Ten ways to create a knowledge ecology– Euen Semple, June 27, 2011
- 7 objections to social media in learning (and answers)– Donald Clark Plan B, June 11, 2011
- “Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplug– Marcia Conner (FC), January 19, 2011
- E-portfolios – 7 reasons why I don’t want my life in a shoebox– Donald Clark Plan B, March 31, 2011
- The “Big Five” IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data– Dion Hinchcliffe, October 2, 2011
- Review: The Edupunks’ Guide, by Anya Kamenetz– Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, August 8, 2011
- We are the medium– David Weinberger, January 31, 2011
- Earthquake turns TV networks into print– Doc Searls , March 11, 2011
- 5 Reasons Why Activity Streams Will Save You From Information Overload– Luis Suarez, May 4, 2011
- Anticipating the Next Wave of Experience Design– John Hagel, March 28, 2011
- Reddit and community journalism– David Weinberger, August 13, 2011
- Agile eLearning – 27 Great Articles– Tony Karrer, April 6, 2011
- Gladwell proves too much– David Weinberger, February 4, 2011
- Social media & learning – note taking on steroids– Donald Clark Plan B, June 20, 2011
- Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does!– Jane Hart, September 12, 2011
- World wide puddle– Doc Searls , April 1, 2011
- Resolving the Trust Paradox– John Hagel, June 27, 2011
- A big question– David Weinberger, May 1, 2011
- SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism– Ross Dawson, April 9, 2011
- Introducing the Digital Learning Quadrants– Dan Pontefract, October 20, 2011
- The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail | Dawn.– Dawn of Learning, April 13, 2011
- The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context– John Hagel, May 23, 2011
- Examples of eLearning–Ten Great Resources– Tony Karrer, January 11, 2011
- Social learning for business– Harold Jarche, January 20, 2011
- Why E2.0 and Social Business Initiatives Are Likely to Remain Difficult– Jon Husband, September 12, 2011
- Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment– Donald Clark Plan B, May 15, 2011
- Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever Be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social– Dan Pontefract, February 6, 2011
- This will be fun: Mother of all MOOCs– George Siemens, May 19, 2011
- The Social Learning Handbook is now available– Jane Hart, January 24, 2011
- Google+ – fundamental misunderstanding of networks?– George Siemens, July 10, 2011
- Avoiding Half-baked Personas– Adaptive Path, January 11, 2011
- Learning With and From Others: Restructuring Budgets for Social Learning– Dan Pontefract, January 6, 2011
- Enterprise 2.0 the Indian Way– Andy McAfee, April 7, 2011
- The Horizon Report 2011– Jane Hart, February 9, 2011
- You are the Collective Wisdom of both Strong & Weak Ties– Dan Pontefract, April 24, 2011
- It is the structure of social networks that shapes influence… and the structure is changing– Ross Dawson, February 5, 2011
- Alternate Pedagogies and Experiences– Clark Quinn, May 18, 2011
- The Networked Workplace– Harold Jarche, May 22, 2011
- Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead– Dan Pontefract, May 23, 2011
- Reinventing Management: Part 4: Coordination: From bureaucracy to.– Steve Denning, January 23, 2011
- What is Google+ for?– David Weinberger, July 8, 2011
- Fresh Made Biz Card for FlasyYourVGadget [Flickr]– Nancy White, June 5, 2011
Other Sources
The following are the top items based on social signals.
- The Smart Worker’s Guide to Social Media, December 16, 2011
- EmbedPlus : enhanced YouTube embedding, January 4, 2011
- Are We Wired For Mobile Learning? (Infographic), March 5, 2011
- 100 things to watch in 2011, January 4, 2011
- My Top 10 Tools for Learning 2011, September 5, 2011
- Why can’t we build something like this for “Objects Used for Learning”?, March 29, 2011
- The Horizon Report 2011, February 9, 2011
- Read “Designing Social Interfaces” if you are involved with humans at all., March 31, 2011
- $70 for a book published after the author dies. WTF?, April 23, 2011
- Learning Tools Directory 2011, February 7, 2011
- The State of Digital Education, August 18, 2011
- How to create social buzz at a learning event, June 28, 2011
- The Year of Social Media 2010 Infographic, January 3, 2011
- Alternatives for Dimdim, January 9, 2011
- My Guides to using social media, March 3, 2011
- The Social Learning Handbook is now available, January 24, 2011
- The 2011 Top 100 Tools for Learning is emerging, February 28, 2011
- Summify – the answer to information overload?, March 31, 2011
- How to use social media to work and learn smarter – in 30 days, February 14, 2011
- WhatsApp – cross platform mobile messenger, February 22, 2011
- Leading Learning Forward, July 12, 2011
Hot Topics
Blogging (4228)
- Lean or Agility?, May 5, 2011
- Let’s Rename Micro-blogging to Chatting, April 12, 2011
- A grain of sand: Innovation diffusion, January 11, 2011
- Let’s move tweeting off Twitter, April 19, 2011
Blog (4228)
- Lean or Agility?, May 5, 2011
- Let’s Rename Micro-blogging to Chatting, April 12, 2011
- A grain of sand: Innovation diffusion, January 11, 2011
- Let’s move tweeting off Twitter, April 19, 2011
Information (3751)
- Informal learning is a business imperative, September 13, 2011
- Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever Be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social, February 6, 2011
- Fuelled by Informal learning, March 15, 2011
- Information fertiliser, August 22, 2011
Change (3317)
- Change or die., January 13, 2011
- Data Change Everything, April 22, 2011
- Changing the mechanistic mindset, February 28, 2011
- How tablets are changing how we use tech, May 5, 2011
Technology (3097)
- Better Education Through Technology, January 10, 2011
- New Horizon Report: Alan Levine – Mindmap, April 20, 2011
- How technological and social change are feeding on each other in an accelerating spiral, July 26, 2011
- Curating our personal technology configurations, May 10, 2011