A New Symphony for the next CLO Symposium
Imagine you had the opportunity to design a conference from scratch, without ever having attended a conference in the past, without knowledge of what a conference actually is, without a clue as to what...
View ArticleNo Predictions, Just Some ‘Hopes’ for Learnerprise in 2010
Previously I wrote about how Learning 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 thinking should align. I then defined Learnerprise as: the use of emergent social software platforms as well as formal and informal...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010: The New Employee Gateway?
Since 2001, Microsoft has sold well over 100 million licenses of SharePoint generating more than $1 billion / year in revenue. It’s quite amazing, in my opinion, considering the product is relatively...
View ArticleThe Ability to Lead Remote Employees Will Become the Next 2.0 Skill
Winter Olympic fever has enveloped my beloved city of Vancouver, but I’ve managed to take a break from the action to opine about an issue that clearly needs more than a mere blog post to help modify or...
View ArticleIf I Were a Training Vendor …
Last year, I posted some thoughts on the evolution of the training vendor entitled “An Updated Business Model for Training Vendors“. This is the bulleted form follow-up to that post. Formal Learning...
View ArticleThe Holy Trinity: Leadership Framework, Learning 2.0 & Enterprise 2.0
I find myself in the center of an intellectual tempest. The traditional ‘learning’ folks are trying to sort out how to revolutionize the industry by augmenting their formal learning strategies to...
View ArticleStandalone LMS is Still Dead (rebutting & agreeing w/ Dave Wilkins)
Last year, I wrote a piece entitled “The Standalone LMS is Dead”. Last week, Dave Wilkins of Learn.com wrote a piece entitled “A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of social learning)”. Let...
View ArticleSteve Jobs – My Favourite Beatle
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View ArticleReview: SharePoint Conference 2011
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View ArticleDocking Employee Pay to Improve Their Skills is Dubious if not Dumb
I read with disdain about IBM’s dubious plan to reduce the pay of some of its workers by 10 percent in order for them to improve their skills. Patrick Thibodeau of Computerworld reported the finding on...
View ArticleHow Not to Tweet if You’re a Television Station
Like thousands of other webizens, I took to Twitter on the evening of November 24, 2014. I did so to understand how Ferguson, Missouri was handling a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren...
View ArticleWhat Is A Friend?
Willing. In a moments notice, a friend is willing. Willing to give. Willing to forgive. Willing to follow. Willing to unfollow. Willing to colour. Willing to discolour. Whose friend is willing, is a...
View ArticleIt’s Not So Hard To Be A Little More Cooperative
‘To work with‘ – that’s really what cooperating means. Sounds easy, doesn’t it. In research conducted for her book, Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz With Energy: And...
View ArticleGord Downie May Be The Best High School Teacher I Never Had
It’s been some time since I patrolled the jaundice-colored halls of my high school. Those were awkward days. Acne, Bunsen burner fiascos and infamous air band “talent shows” were iffy memories for me....
View ArticleBooks To Devour By Nilofer Merchant, Roger Martin, Jennifer Riel and Daniel Pink
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: I recently spent three weeks touring the coastlines of Australia. Between the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Manly Beach, Sorrento and...
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