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- Learning and working in the #SocialAge. Starting the journey
- My new, free, eBook “Learning, Knowledge & Meaning – the Singapore Diary”
- A place for everything and everything in it’s place: creating an environment for learning
- Navigating the space between process and excellence. Is your organisation agile enough?
- Building a rocket to fly to the moon: are your learning blueprints complete?
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- Julian Stodd Photography
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- Marton House plc
- The Work Social
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- The #office is more of a notion than a place these days. The hierarchies of working are changing buff.ly/10hO36M #work #SocialAge 43 minutes ago
- New favourite writing place @Hutspot020. i'm developing ideas around #learning in the #SocialAge (@ebase my office!) http://t.co/Ez7ZVvzl9e 48 minutes ago
- I’ve been working with my communities on #Twitter & #LinkedIn to develop the new book structure #SocialLearning buff.ly/14MAcZf 1 hour ago
- Just hit 50 downloads of new book in the first day :-) "#Learning, #knowledge & #meaning" is a reflective journey smashwords.com/books/view/317… 2 hours ago
- Working with my communities to shape structure of a new #book is a very social way of working. Much easier to maintain momentum! #creativity 2 hours ago
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Category Archives: Research
Choose your words carefully: semantic stretch and why not to be super cool
Big data is the big thing: finding meaning in the chaos, teasing out the truth, so i was particularly interested in a project that discussed an analysis of how our use of certain words has evolved over time and how … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Change, Clarity, Communication, Conversation, Effectiveness, Everyday Reality, Grammar, Language, Meaning, Research, Semantics, Writing
Tagged Big Data, Ideas, Semantic Stretch, Supercool
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Finding the meaning in words: science and religion
Words convey ideas, but the meaning is something we construct from it. We often turn to written sources as our first source of information on a subject, but those sources won’t necessarily give us the ‘truth’, but rather a narration … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Community, Community of Practice, Conversation, Formal Spaces, Ideas, Informal Spaces, Introspection, Knowledge, Learning, Meaning, Reflection, Research, Social Learning, Writing
Tagged absolute truth, atomic weight, Belief, Bible, Faith, God, historical document, Meaning, meaningful text, Religion, Science
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Cultural differences in learning: as the world gets smaller, do our challenges get bigger?
I’m having a whole range of interesting conversations about the challenges of global learning delivery at the moment. I’m particularly interested in cultural differences in social learning spaces, understanding whose rules apply here. In essence, the challenge is simple: people … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Community, Culture, Difference, Diversity, Engagement, Forum, Freedom, Global, Inclusivity, Research, Social Learning
Tagged cultural norms, Culture, Difference, Diversity, Social Learning
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Trust in learning: where do we turn to when we need reliable information?
The first place i turn to for information is usually my mobile phone: i’ve adopted the habits of an impulsive Googler with great enthusiasm. Once the results come up, i often go to Wikipedia for an overview, turning to professional … Continue reading