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Starbucks has started a college assistance program for its staff members to earn four year college degrees, ONLINE, through Arizona State University. ASU has dedicated Pretty neat if it works as described.

Blog post from Associations Now on CPA group setting up its new learning model--ongoing conversation with members and people outside the profession on its website--on future of profession.

good background on how social informal networks lead to promotions and new opportunities for its women members, Fortune

excellent assessment in The Saturday Essay on helping well-intentioned male managers support and guide their women employees who are potential leaders more effectively, December 2014. Came up in LeanIn materials submitted by members.

Article by Robert Whipple, on how to overcome distance in building trust. "How can a leader effectively use technology to build trust and cohesion in a decentralized team environment? * Clarify a strategy for how communication should be optimized for their particular team dynamic. * Ensure all team members are trained to use all the different communication methods properly and have the proper equipment to use it easily. * Have a well understood policy for when to use each type of communication. What sorts of communications need a permanent record? When is it important to be able to see a person, face to face? Some decisions are not clear cut, but it is important for the leader to teach the team what to consider when making the choice of how to communicate. * Model the behavior you wish to see."

This page focuses on the Towards Maturity Learning Landscape Audit (LLA)--survey tool to help businesses understand how their staff learn, both formally and informally. The few bullet points contrast the views of 2,000 randomly selected learners from the private sector with 500 L & D professionals--a wide gap exists with regard to how learners are learning and like to learn with what L & D professionals are doing. For instance, 80% of learners prefer work in collaboration with other team members whereas only 1 in five L & D managers surveyed actively encourage staff to help each other solve problems using social media.

excellent points for us to stress in our work, too.

Popova identified the Benjamin Franklin effect in her blog (follows excerpt below in her blog post). The excerpt below reminds of why networks are helpful. "At age twenty-one, he formed a "club of mutual improvement" called the Junto. It was a grand scheme to gobble up knowledge. He invited working-class polymaths like him to have the chance to pool together their books and trade thoughts and knowledge of the world on a regular basis. They wrote and recited essays, held debates, and devised ways to acquire currency. Franklin used the Junto as a private consulting firm, a think tank, and he bounced ideas off the other members so he could write and print better pamphlets. Franklin eventually founded the first subscription library in America, writing that it would make "the common tradesman and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries," not to mention give him access to whatever books he wanted to buy."

Canada's Top 100 employers, March 31, 2015. Categories to be honored as a most inclusive workplace " (a) Women; (b) Members of visible minorities; (c) Persons with disabilities; (d) Aboriginal peoples; and (e) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered/Transsexual (LGBT) peoples."

Tech-Enabled Learning by Whitehorne, Associations Now, January 2016, refers to recent survey on associations using technology to help their members/staff learn

HSN with Mindy Grossman's leadership has women as 40% of its board members. Tampa Bay Business Journal, November 30, 2015.

example of nonprofit group on Facebook set up by Vu Le, who writes Nonprofits with Balls blog--closed but with over 200 members

great article by Kevin Birmingham, a literary criticism award winner, the first ever non-tenured faculty member to win it, on how adjunct crisis is furthered by status quo university systems that value everything but classroom teaching.

Very important website for identifying most popular learning tools, compiled by the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies at the end of 2012, Jane Hart et al. Jane runs the Centre and is a member of the Internet Time Alliance and the Social Learning Centre that is offering the PKM workshop that Lisa and I are enrolled in. This is a very valuable resource that should affect our Digital Literacy Foundations Workshop design and should show up someplace on our site--perhaps in the blog?

Jane Hart's top 100 tools for 2013. Votes of over 500 learning professionals from 48 countries compiled the list. "A learning tool is a tool for your own personal or professional learning or one you use for teaching and training."

The latest list from Jane Hart.

Great article on capacity building for nonprofit leadership and staff in communities of color serving people of color

Inside Higher Ed article by Scott Jaschik, April 20, 2015, on how students studying online in California's community colleges are not as successful in completing courses or earning As and Bs as their peers do working f2f in classroom formats.

Wonderful explanation of the power of pull and its exploration in books written by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown (Social Life of Information author among many other foundational books), and Lang Davison (former director of Deloitte Center for the Edge and editor-in-chief of the McKinsey Quarterly). Endorses community of practice and "socially embedded practice in driving knowledge creation and performance improvement." From April 9, 2010

post by Brian Hurley in Technology Innovation Management Review on how business ecosystems are led by keystone organizations in networks that provide opportunities for suppliers, customers, partners, and competitors. August 2009.

forprofit firm calls itself Keystone Strategy but explains what a keystone organization does.