Category Archives: Social Networking

Social Lives

Posted on August 8, 2013 by julianstodd

I had a great meeting in London yesterday: we talked about the changing nature of work in the Social Age, about the evolution of leadership, about the challenges of change. As we rode the lift back down to the lobby, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptability, Agile, Authority, Community, Effectiveness, Engagement, Knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Learning Culture, Meaning, Personal Learning Network, Social Capital, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Social technology for social learning: Voxer and ScoopIt

Posted on April 12, 2013 by julianstodd

Voxer is a neat App for smartphones: a walkie talkie function that lets you hold a ‘button‘ and record a message that is shared, immediately, with another person or group. You can share photos, with location tags, or text messages … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Just in time' learning, Agile, Apps, Broadcast, Choreography, Collaboration, Community, Community of Practice, Connections, Conversation, Experience, Instant Messaging, Knowledge, Learning, Learning Journey, Learning Technology, Meaning, Mindset, Mobile Apps, Mobile Learning, Personal Learning Network, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking, Synchronous Communication, Technology, Usability | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

Social legacy: Paris Brown and the right to learn

Posted on April 10, 2013 by julianstodd

This isn’t a post about politics and policing: it’s a post about learning and the legacy of social media. The right to learn and the right to grow up. There’s been a scandal brewing in the UK over the last … Continue reading →

Posted in Age, Authority, Brand, Culture, Disclosure, Diversity, Equality, Experience, Facebook, Freedom, Information, Integrity, Leadership, Learning, Learning Culture, Legacy, Mistakes, News, Personal Brand, Social Learning, Social Media, Tone of Voice, Truth, Twitter, Understanding | Tagged , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Informal technology: social learning

Posted on March 12, 2013 by julianstodd

Those who know me well are familiar with my tendency to anthropomorphise technology, to assign it with traits and personality: my car has a name and distinctly mischievous identity. Some technology is ‘friendly‘, whilst other is far more formal. Even … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Collaboration, Community, Conformity, Connections, Control, Creative, Facebook, Formal Learning Spaces, Informal Learning Spaces, Informal Spaces, Social Learning, Social Networking, Spaces, Yammer | Tagged , , , , | 12 Comments

Forming bonds and partnerships in social learning: joining the community

Posted on March 6, 2013 by julianstodd

My first week in Amsterdam and i’m starting to make friends. The guy in the off licence who sold me the wine, the girl in the coffee shop where i’m writing now, the elderly neighbour. Our initial partnerships are formal, … Continue reading →

Posted in Coffee, Community, Community of Practice, Connections, Conversation, Culture, Environment, Exploration, Identity, Personal Learning Network, Relationship, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

How do we communicate? A song about the languages of learning

Posted on February 27, 2013 by julianstodd

I’m editing my new book on ‘music in learning‘ and trying to draw out my thoughts into some practical models around the subject. Part of this involves trying to characterise how we use different the different languages of learning to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Agile, Art, Creative, Effectiveness, Experience, Graffiti, Haiku, Instructional Design, Learning, Learning Design, Meaning, Media, Message, Music, Narrative, Performance, Poetry, Songs, Stories, Storytelling, Twitter, Voice, Words, Writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

Personal learning networks and learning not to be nervous

Posted on January 17, 2013 by julianstodd

Today is LEARNING:500, the event to celebrate the 500th post on the blog. I’m sat in my London hotel room, where i should be working on my presentation, but instead am writing this over a cuppa. I should be nervous, … Continue reading →

Posted in Achievement, Blog, Collaboration, Community, Community of Practice, Conversation, Formal Spaces, Forum, Introspection, Learning, Social Learning, Social Networking, Writing | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

The growing pains of social learning communities: my Yammer diary

Posted on January 10, 2013 by julianstodd

For a long time, my own organisation has used Yammer as a social learning and collaboration tool, but in a very informal way. There have only been a small community of users and it’s been very ad hoc in it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Change, Collaboration, Communication, Community, Community of Practice, Control, Conversation, Forum, Informal Spaces, Learning, Learning Culture, Networking, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking, Yammer | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Challenges in the creation and curation of social learning spaces

Posted on January 8, 2013 by julianstodd

I was talking to someone yesterday about the challenges of creating a company wide social learning space. These spaces fall between the formal world of work and the informal social spaces that surround it: they are semi formal with open … Continue reading →

Posted in Authority, Brand, Broadcast, Challenge, Collaboration, Community, Conversation, Culture, Curation, Dialogue, Engagement, Environment, Formal Spaces, Informal Spaces, Learning, Moderator, Social Learning, Social Media, Social Networking | Tagged , , , , | 15 Comments

Amsterdam Diary – Day 2: spontaneous learning cultures – popup learning

Posted on September 25, 2012 by julianstodd

I’ve taken this week out to think, research and write about learning culture: how is it formed, what are the challenges in global learning spaces and who owns it? Yesterday we looked at how the culture is created, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Just in time' learning, Culture, Knowledge, Learning, Narrative, Popup Learning, Social Learning, Social Networking, Stories, Storytelling | Tagged , , , , | 23 Comments