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News article on shooting death of Dan Markel, a rising star in the legal world and an FSU professor, 7.26.14. They describe his desire to create dialogue and how his blog PrawfsBlawg gained national attention. (and may have led to his irritating someone who killed him) "In Tallahassee, Markel's star ascended. He launched a legal blog, a forum for law professors called PrawfsBlawg. The site gave scholars an avenue to vet ideas and listed job opportunities. PrawfsBlawg attracted a national following, propelling Markel into a network of high-profile scholars. He was invited to conferences nationwide. Markel's scholarship, which raised philosophical questions about the justice system and argued against the death penalty, also received national attention. His writing was featured in the New York Times and Slate. "He was very eager to engage other academics in dialogue," said Berman, the Ohio State professor. "He believed the more you got resistance to your idea, the more refined and sophisticated the idea would become.""

blog post by Charles Jennings cited by Jane Hart, published August 13, 2014. "And for Organisational Learning? The Web has allowed us to totally redefine our traditional learning models. It has allowed us to reach beyond content-rich learning approaches and focus on experience-rich learning. It has allowed an evolution from 'Know What' learning to 'Know Who' and 'Know How' learning; and it has allowed the emergence from learning in the silos of our own organisations to learning with and through others across the world - easily and transparently. The Collaboration Age On a wider plane the Web has been the harbinger of the Collaboration Age. It has blown away many of the barriers to access and has reinforced the power and influence of collaboration and co-operation1 over silo mentalities. In the Collaboration Age it is those who share and work together who are the winners. Those who hide behind organisational garden walls end up deep in weeds. "

Very key point that Beth Kanter makes in her blog post on LinkedIn "But in today's world, those boundaries are pretty blurred. As employees of nonprofits increasingly interact with their professional contacts in online social networks that favor individual participation, such as Facebook or Twitter, they are likely to experience a collision of their professional and personal identities"

article by Joyce E. A. Russell, 10/28/2012, Capital Business, Wash Post on competitors collaborating.

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."

finding space offline

importance of using projects to isolate work experience, team, real world, time with colleagues, practical skill use, responsibility for project, research skills, project management skills, etc.

Depressing article from USAToday by Elizabeth Weise about how the US is now 28th on the list of global gender equality, behind Rowanda and some other third world countries.

Really good article on how to use LinkedIn well, December 4, 2013, in NYT, Personal Tech column

early look by Susan Herring, Indiana University, (2001) of how women fare online. one interesting paragraph on projected changes of world wide web and impact on women.

Stephen Downes's keynote to the World Congress on Continuing Professional Development, San Diego, CA from May 19, 2016 He begins with the assertion that learning is personal - based on personal practice - then put into practice in a learning network. Progress and evaluation through practice is based on performance in authentic communities. Contains slides, audio, and video

Great elegant graphic of reflective learning, and a 4 step process. He has developed the 70:20:10 method of blended learning. This is from his blog on blogspot.

"While the leaders on stage understand that they play a critical role in preparing their workers for the future, ultimately they all agreed that they can only do so much. There is an individual responsibility to recognize that the world is changing and continually improve on your own skills, McNamara said."

Martin Weller's blog entitled: You can stop worrying about MOOCs now. Interesting in it reports the trend now that commercial MOOC providers are trending toward blended courses, and in Coursera's case, offering "MOOC-based learning on campus" which turns out to essentially be a course!

Interesting blog on the return of the f2f in the world of MOOCs

good article by Sam Polk, July 2016, on how sexist talk by men about women catapults even worse behavior by men

informed assessment/report by Justin Wolfers, NYTimes, on how extending parental leave policies cause unintended impacts

good essay by Sallie Krawcheck on changing careers, leadership traits, getting in the traffic to understand the industry you are moving into, etc.

nice article on why women lose ambition from toxic environments and never fully recover, Shelly Darnutzer, March 9, 2016, LinkedIn Pulse via Twitter

blog post by Susan J. Ellis, Energize, February 2017, great post for helping volunteers thrive in moving org mission

how kids need to be equipped socially to work effectively with others by Greg Satel, @Digitaltonto