Friday’s Finds

Friday’s finds on social media

Friday’s Finds #11

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Once again, from the Twitter files this past week:

Research debunking claim of digital natives vs immigrants  via @JoanVinallCox @rdelorenzo @rmazar

BitTorrent counters fear, uncertainty and doubt from Canadian Internet Service Providers Michael Geist

via @skap5 “Learning happens when a child is interested. Otherwise, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” (B. Lamping)

“we just cannot understand why a normal person would want to go to school” Club Orlov

via @dbast Knowledge Management has an outlook on information supported by dysfunctional technology whereas social computing has no specific outlook and is supported by functional technology

via @jonhusband managers should start really trying to understand the new social dynamics & methods of constructing pertinent knowledge

Aggregated Wisdom is the Winner The FASTForward Blog Requirements: a  culture of collaboration & a great set of collaboration tools

The 4Cs Social Media Framework Beth’s Blog (Gaurav Mishra)

Legal considerations on mental health in the workplace Mental Health @Work slides for use

via @psychcentral The Brain’s Interpreter | Channel N

The final word:

If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no. Work Life Balance via @judymartin8

Friday’s Finds #10

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From my Twitter files this week:

via @cammybean: The Agile Elearning Design Manual

via @CarlosDiaz Reduce your cost with business 2.0 Blue Kiwi video

via @bduperrin You can’t govern what you don’t understand

via @Dave_Ferguson Meet Jessica (good demo for people new to social tools) Slideshare

via @rossdawson Where do you want to play? Where the economy used to be or where the economy is going?

Bonus: two humourous links:

via @jalam1001 The Hierarchy: How it is? cartoon

via @joelkelly @Bboudreau @paulwesson This wonderful and funny video “Canadian, Please“

Friday’s Finds #9

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Once again, not much blogging but a bit more activity on Twitter. It seems I can blast off 140 characters a lot easier than a complete blog post.

via @robpatrob Rob asks 10 questions for all of those who feel ok with the current food system
Agriculture – Our Delusion – My Questions Please help by answering

via @nprnews – Fight Against Antibiotic Fed Farm Animals All Uphill

via @paullowe Paul interviews jessica dimmock of VII network on intimacy with your photography subject

The importance of deliberate practice Anecdote Blog

via @kanter @peterscampbell – Why SharePoint Scares Me

When Culture Eats Enterprise 2.0 Strategy for Breakfast: Slideshare

How not to train (free registration required) by @charlesjennings

Workplace depression: Your co-worker needs your help (for my MH@W Blog)

If you’re really busy, you can use Twitter for busy people via @MiNutrition

Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun Read/Write Web – my blog stats confirm this


Friday’s Finds #8

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It was a very busy week that left me little time to blog but I still found some gems on Twitter:

via valdiskrebs Nice short article by one of the “key players” in social network analysis — knowledge creation & network structure.

via jmcgee – Mike_Wesely #QUOTE: “Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.” ~ Robert Brault

via fdomon – jobadge : Social:Learn – a place to organise, share and record learning online in a social way

via JaneBozarth – aenclade – skipzilla : Great exchange between preschooler & her dad: He says he teaches art in college. She puzzles, “You mean they forget?

Tom Gram answers LCB big question in depth: it’s still about improving performance

Elizabeth May Advocates Against “Crazy Copyright Laws”

University campuses must be among the most inefficient uses of land and real estate imaginable

Friday’s Finds #7

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From the Twitter files this past week:

via @c4lpt – 10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 3)

via @1ernesto1 – Cheater or Collaborator?

via @johnsgunn – Canadians have no legitimate expectation of privacy when they use the Internet

via @kdwashburn –  Florida school boosts achievement by jettisoning textbooks

ROI:

Productivity in a Networked Era: Not Your Fathers ROI  CLO article

Flexibility has it’s own Return on Investment

Friday’s Finds #6

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It seems that Twitter has been the only subject discussed here this week, so I promise to broaden the subject matter next week. Here’s my synthesis of some of what I learned on Twitter:

Business

A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture via @johnt

John Hegel’s Shift Happens Redux via @jalam1001

“Just heard of several faculty who left research & teaching because of toxic workplaces” via @ellenfweber (related to my work at Mental Health @ Work)

Learning

100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists via @josiefraser @courosa

Questions on Informal Learning and the Future of Corporate Training via @fdomon

Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed – How to Foolproof Your Mind, Part 1 via @denniscallahan

Food & Energy

(related to my volunteering with Sackville CSA)

Biggest seedmaker, Monsanto, to prune 900 jobs + does a drop in potash sales = less food? via @folkstone

Longest path between here & the truth is through a McDonalds PR campaign on sustainable agricultural practices. via @rhh

Friday’s Finds #5

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From the Twitter files:

The big news this week was the Iranian election and almost all of the news was via social media, as the broadcast media were shown to be powerless against the Iranian state, but not the people:

“This feels like Tiananmen. They fight for democracy, we watch, they die, we change the channel;” via @rhh

Rob Paterson picked up on this theme and asked “Is empowerment a point of view avoided by mainstream media? ;” I added, “and is empowerment a point of view that is embraced by social media?” via @robpatrob

“This is change of media: German main news show uses YouTube and Twitter for their report of Iran election.” via @hnauheimer

“University’s security & personnel evacuated by police, there are only us students in here right now” [frightening post from a student in Iran] via @Change_for_Iran

and of course many of us turned our avatars green in support of free elections in Iran

The Real ROI of Social Media: “But maybe we’re looking at the wrong ROI to start with – instead of return on investment, perhaps we should be more worried about the Risk of Ignoring.” via @fdomon

Skepticism about the whole “Net Generation” concept via @jclarey and a link to @markbullen and his Net Gen Skeptic blog

“Is it time to get rid of the Foreign Service designation?” This is a classic example of Tribal versus Network culture, and I’d wager that our foreign service needs a network culture in order to be effective today.

A Twitter-like policy on Twitter: “Our Twitter policy: Be professional, kind, discreet, authentic. Represent us well. Remember that you can’t control it once you hit “update.”“, via @kanter

I said that I’ve noticed Twitter is replacing comments and thus opening my blog posts up to a wider audience. “Is Twitter replacing blog comments? Possibly, says @judymartin8 and Twitter is driving my traffic up & more people are connecting inter-personally, not on blog.”

Excellent Friday viewing, YouTube video on educational reform, “Goodbye Butts in Chairs” via @jaycross

Friday’s Finds #4

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This week marked six years as a free-agent. I announced it on Twitter and received many kind words – thank you. Once again, my weekly sense-making from the Twitter files:

@ellenfweber “Since brains integrate knowledge naturally, while humans falsely separate facts artificially, integration is central to great learning.”

via @1ernesto1 – 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom

“all our HR and org design theory is based on nothing but dogma“; which is why we badly need new organizational & management models

RT @zecool – NB Community College Fredericton relocates to the University of New Brunswick; expect more physical mergers in higher education as costs increase

via @charlesjennings – “When it’s just so obvious NOT to train it’s painful to watch it happen”

via @Pistachio How to be Happy in Business (Venn diagram) – Reminded me of another Venn diagram (your purpose) by @DavePollard

College/university education at the undergraduate level is now merely credential farming

10 simple things (SlideShare) we can do to change our food system

via @gbrettmiller Theoria cum Praxi » Cynefin, concept work, and the role of deliberate practice

In chaos we are forced to develop novel practices, therefore we need chaos for innovation; then from  @nickcharney My favourite Nietzsche quote: “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star”.

Friday’s Finds #3

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From the Twitter files;

Some thoughts, ideas & comments that caught my attention this week:

Canadians are being set up by music/movie lobby groups & our politicians in a rather cozy relationship it seems … Is there a connection between crappy broadband and minimal use of open source in Canada? via Michael Geist

It seems that our economy may transition from Markets, back to Tribes & bypass Networks completely: The End of Business [related to my post on networks & complexity]

via @skap5 Powerful reminder of the shift from an industrial era. GM employed 395,000 building cars in the 1970’s. After latest closings it’s 40,000. GM’s US market share declined from 45 to 19% from 1980 to today. Meanwhile via @techberry The only way to save GM is to kill GM – we must convert auto factories to mass transit: Michael Moore.

Quote from @swoodruff “Writing a social media consulting proposal for a potential biotech client. Contact came via Twitter. Return On Networking!” [who says Twitter is useless?]

via @VMaryAbraham “What produces results? Knowledge. Got it? No, then get it!”  Content Management Connection

via @nineshift The rise of public places in Canada, and @scottstonehouse replies: “Right on. Just started telecommuting and I expect to be spending more time than ever at the public library.”

via @c4lpt The future is people, not technology – Jay Cross

via @derkdegeus The end of Intellectual Property

“Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas” on TED Talks

Friday’s finds #2

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I am continuing to learn from Twitter. A real potpourri this past week:

The 140 character limitation of Twitter forced me to reduce the essence of this post to:

When faced with complexity: 1) organize as networks 2) continuously develop emergent practices 3) collaborate around common goals.

Pep rallies and tribalism make little sense in a networked world. via XKCD

“Quote du jour from Umair Haque: Record labels are caught in a prisoners dilemma, and the jailer is the RIAA.” via @dsearls

via @johnt – Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management – A Revolution of Knowledge in Three parts

via @statsgirl “poverty is the #1 risk factor for mental illness”

via @denniscallahan 3 reasons to try FriendFeed (I like reasons 2 & 3)