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"FEBRUARY 2013 * Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton " This blog post asserts the importance of certain social-media skills for every leader by using the executives at General Electric as a case study.

Very good blog post by Peter Skillen on July 13, 2011 on PBL? Am I Doing It Right? Offers continua for structuring projects by students but couldn't these be adopted in setting up PBL for adult elearners? The continua are trust (locus of control), Questioning (who is generating the questions), Collaboration (how much collaboration is really going on?), Content (reductionist to complex), Knowledge (hidden to visible), Purpose (contrived to authentic).

Article by Beth Kanter in LinkedIn on The Failure Bow, 1.23.13

Blog by Beth on Becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Maturity of Practice Overview 8/31/12

Beth's Blog explains why she uses both pen and paper and digital not taking tools such as Evernote. Beth recommends Alexandra Samuel's e-book ($3.99 on Kindle from Amazon) for how to use Evernote. It has convinced me to make Evernote part of my PKM toolkit. 1/30/13

Great blog by Jarche on benefits of blogging--I ought to do it, too!!!

This guide by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies seems to be a VERY valuable resource available by subscription. How might we incorporate it/use it in WLStudio?

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?

Fascinating article on Baylor research on how internal social networking sites supported and managed within the workplace helps newcomers (younger people usually) to connect and learn from each other, interact directly with more senior people, and inadvertently cause problems for middle managers who did not want to mentor new hires and who did not necessarily have the social/technology proficiencies to participate in the SNS, Science Daily, 1/29/2013. Their conclusions showed that a "company can improve morale and reduce turnover." Researchers are Hope Koch, Baylor, Dorothy Leidner, Ph.D., Ferguson Professor of Information Systems at Baylor; and Ester Gonzalez from Washington State University. Excerpt: he study centered on a financial institution's efforts to reduce IT employee turnover by starting a social and work-related online networking site. Under the supervision of executives, the IT new hires developed and managed the site's content. Since most new hires had moved hundreds of miles to start their new jobs with the institution, they initially used the social pages as an introduction to the community. After a year or so with the organization, the more senior new hires began using the system to acclimate and mentor incoming new hires. All study respondents worked in the institution's IT department and included new hires, middle managers and executives. With less than three years of experience, most new hires and interns were men between 21 and 27 years old. The middle managers and executives were baby boomers or members of generation X. The internal social networking site helped the new hires build social capital in several ways, according to Koch. "It gave them access to people who could provide useful information and new perspectives and allowed them to meet more senior new hires and executives. These relationships set the new hires at ease during work meetings, helped them understand where to go for help and increased their commitment to the financial

An app for prioritizing, categorizing, and filtering tweets

Great essay on adult learning online, January 2012

"This link will self destruct" technology to give you more control over how long a link will remain active."

Edudemic blog on online learning, 1.17.13

Interesting assessment of growth, # of users, and ROI in 2012 for Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn and where each is going in 2013. Impact for Studio--looks like Twitter is strong, and LinkedIn is up and coming?

Incredible infographic on social networking around the world located on Edudemic, 1.26.13 What it raises for me: Does being a member of a social network equal proficiency or satisfaction with use? If we already have this kind of saturation, what is the niche for the Studio for fill?

Blog by Sui Fai John Mak, 1/23/2013 wondering about differences/similarities between Connectivism and Constructionivism. Like premise of Connectivism. Excerpt "Are PLNs founded in the theory of Connectivism? Connectivism is based on the notion that learning is the result of connections of nodes in networks - as the capacity to build, construct and navigate across networks (including social and personal learning networks, and the neuronetworks)."

Very good personal assessment of why Twitter is valuable, Ross Dawson, June 20, 2011, blog

Wonderful interview with Don Tapscott done by McKinsey Quarterly in September 2012 on why social media needs to be used in organizations rather than email, published January 2013. Shows that leaders do not understand shift to collaboration/incubator transparency/forums to interact from email updating of team projects.