1. Challenges of social media to nonprofits
(Blog/Social Media)

... biggest challenges for nonprofits in relation to social media. She talks of three challenges: The importance of learning - even though the stuff has been around for a couple of years - we're still in the ...

2. Building competencies through e-learning
(Blog/News)

John Smith and I are presenting a webcast for the Human Capital Institute (HCI) next week. It's called "It's the Sign of the Times: Building Competencies through E-learning" and is sponsored by Safari ...

3. Blog v. documents in dusty filing system
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... for which you are paid. All you need for your product to be counted is an account of what happened. Beverly, not able to let a learning opportunity pass, finds herself writing what she calls "reflective ...

4. Who would you invite to talk about social innovation?
(Blog/News)

... society, organisational learning, gender equality... Most of the audience will be people from Europe but there should be voices from different parts of the world. Etienne Wenger and Bunker Roy will be ...

5. From report writing to social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

...  I write many many reports required for the jobs I do. I try and shape the formal report genre into a “learning event” for myself, writing it down as a way of  helping me make sense of ...

6. Beyond individual tools and an individual's assumptions
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... and cultural contexts,  working in and across different sectors. Our experience of the world is different from each others'. We have different time, family and project constraints. Our learning ...

7. Lessons learned and context: how to represent them
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

I am preparing a series of Learning Events for CIARIS to enquire about ways that communities are monitoring and evaluating their work, impact and unexpected outcomes. It's been quite a popular topic ...

8. Moving on with my identity
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... answer about, for example, communication tools - as if a learning theorist would know more than, say, a practising technology steward. The experience made me question who I am and why I had difficulty ...

9. Identity attack: new tools
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... That little bit is relative to you. And it takes time. My question is: if we look at ourselves as part of a social learning system, which will be made richer by including the voices of established, fringe, ...

10. Time to get behind
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... I see a World3.0 for myself where: Knowledge sharing and learning has imposed high expectations on what you have to produce for other people. We look for places to chill out and produce nothing. Work ...

11. Meltdown, Takeoff and World 3.0
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... World 3.0 Knowledge sharing and social learning is a welcome natural part of people's everyday work Knowledge sharing and learning has imposed high expectations on what you have to produce for other ...

12. Connectivity as place
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... you can get off the shelf. There is an idea that inviting people to subscribe to an online space is how people join your community...A community of practice is a social learning system, with or without ...

13. Some process issues about where we meet next time
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

So our paper for the AoIR conference in Copenhagen ("Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place") was accepted. "Where do we meet next time? - negotiating places, identities and technologies ...

14. Disruptive, fun and motivating ways of working
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... could call “R & D”. That’s pioneering, exploring, discovering, reflecting, taking risks and learning. And the other is responding to organisations looking for a solution to their ...

15. Mangos and bananas speed-dating
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

Have you ever seen a mango questioning a banana? Or a banana looking for commonalities between mangos? Two weeks ago I was the facilitator of some sessions in a learning workshop in Addis Ababa. For three ...

16. Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice
(Blog/News)

...  is proud to add a  new learning event to its educational offerings. "Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice" is a workshop for community managers, ...

17. Shirikisha
(Blog/News)

We've done it! Some months and three hours later, we have arrived at a name for the platform we're creating.  We've given ourselves 24 hours to hear objections about the name. After that, ...

18. Naming a platform
(Blog/Social Media)

... a few days before she was born her name popped out, the lights went on, and it was clear to both of us that that was it. I'm now brainstorming names for a learning platform we developed and want to ...

19. What makes something a place?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... but that practice that fell by the wayside. Our lens is communities of practice and situated learning where our experience of the world and the tools is embedded in our (changing) contexts and not in the ...

20. Becoming Inspiring
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... inspiring", then I know that a learning journey is now underway. Of course you can never explain that - you can only be becoming it. ...