Tag Archives: Trust

Where’s your library? Questions around sharing and social learning

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

As well as a museum, children’s playground and sofas, Schiphol airport boasts a library. In the days of Kindles and eBooks, it may sound slightly anachronistic, but this library has actual shelves and actual books that you can sit in … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Just in time' learning, Accessibility, Book, Collaboration, Community, Connections, Culture, Discovery, e-Books, Education, Formal Spaces, Informal Spaces, Learning, Learning Culture, Meaning, Personal Learning Network, Popup Learning, Social Learning | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

The Privacy Jigsaw: can you keep a secret?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

I am active online: i participate in many social spaces and learning communities. I maintain a number of personal and professional personas, but across them all i tend towards caution when it comes to sensitive data. I tend to trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Agile, Authority, Clarity, Collaboration, Community, Consumption, Culture, Disclosure, Forbidden, Freedom, Integrity, Learning Culture, Legacy, Mistakes, Ownership, Privacy, Social Learning, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Command and control, share or narrate? Dilemmas of the Social Age

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

I’m preparing slides for my workshop tomorrow and settled on this one, encapsulating the dilemmas of the Social Age: do the pressures of command and control trump the need to share and narrate? It’s really about inward and outward pressures … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Authority, Challenge, Change, Community, Control, Creative, Culture, Engagement, Formal Learning Spaces, Informal Learning Spaces, Knowledge, Learning, Narrative, Privacy, Relationship, Sharing, Social Learning, Social Media, Trust | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Communicating

Posted on April 9, 2013 by

I’m writing in the apartment in Amsterdam today, up on the fourth floor, looking out over the city. It’s a bright day, clear views. This morning i’ve been communicating with colleagues in the UK, the US, Germany, Ireland and Asia. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authority, Communication, Community, Conformity, Connections, Contact, Control, Conversation, Culture, Dialogue, Diversity, Edgelands, Formal Spaces, Global, Graffiti, Informal Spaces, LGBT, Narrative, Personal Learning Network, Rapport, Social Learning, Tone of Voice, Voice, Words | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

What does collaboration mean? Social learning spaces and the freedom to learn

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

Today is a rare office day. There are eight other people in the same room as me: we share a kitchen and a coffee machine, but we are not collaborating. We may talk about the weather, ask how the holiday … Continue reading →

Posted in Achievement, Agile, Blog, Broadcast, Collaboration, Community, Community of Practice, Learning, Personal Learning Network, Social Learning | Tagged , , , , | 12 Comments

Social learning: trust and integrity in a globalised workforce

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

The mercenary workforce: that was the term that came up yesterday in a seminar on trust and integrity in the global, virtualised workplace. It represented a point in our thinking when we recognised that people feel let down by their … Continue reading →

Posted in Authority, Change, Choices, Coaching, Engagement, Global, Integrity, Learning, Social Learning, Trust | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Exploring social learning environments: what can we take with us that is familiar?

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

A weekend of sunshine has reminded me of one of the crucial differences between the real world and the virtual: the weather. Whilst we build relationships and friendships in both real and social contexts, whilst we manage challenges and reflect … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Clarity, Collaboration, Community, Formal Spaces, Informal Spaces, Learning, Online Spaces, Reflection, Social Learning, Spaces | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Floating Facebook. Who owns social learning environments and our social media lives?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

We increasingly live in social spaces online. For organising nights out with friends, to share photos of weddings, to connect with other people with an interest in gardening and to complain about the washing machine going wrong. We inhabit these … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Community of Practice, Engagement, Facebook, Formal Spaces, Informal Spaces, Mentoring, Ownership, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The hazards of social media. How to use Google+ without hitting your head.

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

I’ve only been on a submarine once, but i remember it well because of the bump. When i first climbed down through the hatch, it was a totally alien environment. Grey, smelling of diesel, pipes everywhere, metal, cold, cramped, muffled … Continue reading →

Posted in Community of Practice, Control, Edgelands, Formal Spaces, Google, Informal Spaces, Learning, Navigation, Privacy | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

For the love of it. Not all learning has to have a reason.

Posted on August 27, 2011 by

Some things we do for money and some for love. it’s the same with learning: some things we learn because we have to, whilst others we learn for the love of learning. Organisations often focus on making people learn the … Continue reading →

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