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If employees or students believe learning occurs only in an annual classroom course, amphitheater lectures or the annual array of mandatory e-learning offerings, how does that unleash the collective intelligence hidden throughout the workforce? An organization’s definition of learning must include formal, informal and social modalities to ensure employees are being counted on to contribute their intellect, ideas and knowledge back to the ecosystem.

Let’s first start with by defining learning, such that employees and students are aware they don’t have to wait for a course to learn. They don’t have to search the LMS as the only viable way in which to increase their knowledge.

If there is only partial participation, is it only the loud that will succeed?

The network is the medium. And if the network is stunted or ambivalent to actively participate, we run the risk not of a digital divide but of a competence divide.

Let 2012 be about the interlocutor. I post, therefore I am.

Make Twitter something you have to check, not something that’s pushed at you.

If you’re an Outlook user, turn its desktop alerts off