Mapping Informal and Formal Learning Strategies to Real Work by Tom Gram During the Q&A at a recent conference session on Social Learning, a retail industry attendee asked "I have to train 300 store level associates in new product knowledge in the next three months.  Is social learning really what I want?"  What would your answer [...]

Learning Formally or Informally…? Why not Both! Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:32 Written by Frédéric Domon "The real genius of organizations is the informal, impromptu, often inspired ways that real people solve real problems in ways that formal processes can’t anticipate. When you’re competing on knowledge, the name of the game is improvisation, not rote standardization." [...]

I love these! "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." — Dudley Field Malone "Always walk through life as if you [...]

I seem to have over indulged with content on my iPad.  It’s telling me "no more apps, no more apps" and to prove the point, it started crashing a lot.  I got it fixed (deleted a bunch of stuff and had to set the entire iPad up all over again).  So, how am I feeling [...]

Socialnomics does a great job with these videos and includes so many fascinating facts.  You may need to click on the blog title above to bring up the video. Enjoy!

Hmmm, Google+ might have just sent me over the top.  Consider what I have done to myself: Five personal email accounts Two Facebook accounts Two Twitter accounts One LinkedIn account Two blogs One website No MySpace accounts (yay for me) Now, I am being flooded with all of the wonderfulness of Google+ (G+).  Really?  Why [...]

Why are organizational leaders so stuck in the notion that leading a learning organization requires no knowledge of learning?  Either the individual can’t lead and can’t be terminated ("those who can, do…those who can’t, teach" mentality) or they believe that the individual is so good that a short stint in the training department will propel [...]

I’ve been blogging for a while and have accumulated several followers and follow even more.  What have I gained?  I’ve made inroads on learning who knows stuff and who doesn’t.  Most of the time, those that know stuff know more than me and, in that regard, that is progress. It’s helped me and, hopefully, those [...]

I need to keep it simple for 2012 and, for those within a generation of my age, some thoughts: Let technology enable you, not disable you.  However, technology cannot (and should not) do it all. Dogs get trained, people learn.  But, you can’t learn without others so collaboration is critical.  Remember the 70/20/10 balance. Read [...]

Here are some good, industry-related books that have recently been published that I thought I would share. Training/Education Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance by Jay Cross A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas The New [...]