Monthly Archives: April 2016

Lost

Posted on April 29, 2016 by julianstodd

Madrid is new to me: my first time in the city, my first time in Spain in fact. I speak no Spanish and have no mental map of the city. The best i’ve got it Google Maps and Wikipedia, which … Continue reading →

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Learning in the Social Age: A Sketch

Posted on April 28, 2016 by julianstodd

I’ve been working with a diverse group of Learning professionals in Madrid today, exploring the Social Age and the ways in which learning has evolved. I sketched this up with a small group, to capture the narrative of ‘what learning … Continue reading →

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Provocative Writing for a Better World: #WorkingOutLoud on an Experiment for the Social Age

Posted on April 27, 2016 by julianstodd

I knew the experiment was working when i felt uncomfortable: sat on the plane, with the first copy in my hand, i worried what other people would think, how they would respond to the writing, how they would feel about … Continue reading →

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Community Graffiti

Posted on April 27, 2016 by julianstodd

Where do you turn when you need a graffiti artist? Today, i turned to the community, and within three hours i had twenty two. All recommendations from the community: validated, introduced, recommended. It’s not coincidence: we curate our communities, we … Continue reading →

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Induction: Mechanistic and Tacit knowledge

Posted on April 25, 2016 by julianstodd

The Socially Dynamic organisation has highly connected individuals and teams, aligned to the strategic ambitions of the business, not just aligned to their local team. Typically we see two elements of an induction programme: the Mechanistic and Tacit. Mechanistic elements … Continue reading →

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The Writing On The Wall

Posted on April 22, 2016 by julianstodd

There are layers of writing throughout the city: i leave the train to the sight of formal, informational guidance, clean cut voices telling me where the stairs are, where the exit is, where the toilets are and what to do … Continue reading →

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Words About Learning: Pace

Posted on April 21, 2016 by julianstodd

Woke up to a long list of jobs, settled at the table in my AirBnB, then stopped, stepped outside, and ordered a coffee by the Amstel. In the sun. With my book. It is, after all, always possible to be … Continue reading →

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A Matter of Perspective

Posted on April 20, 2016 by julianstodd

We all know it, but sometimes the realisation eludes us: perspective is a limiting thing. We are surrounded by walls of our own making. Constrained by our experience of the everyday, fooled into believing that the things we know to … Continue reading →

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The Intersection of Formal and Social

Posted on April 19, 2016 by julianstodd

In the old world, the separation between formal and social was clear: in formal spaces, like the office, formal rules applied. In social spaces, like our homes and cafes, social rules ruled. Today, that differentiation is gone: in the Social … Continue reading →

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Words About Learning: Transition

Posted on April 18, 2016 by julianstodd

Spending tonight as an airport hotel: tedious spaces divorced from any notion, any semblance of normality. Not even a footpath back to civilisation: this is a transitional space, a space between where i came from and where i want to … Continue reading →

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