It is just over five years since Facebook was opened to the general public on September 26, 2006, finally making social networking an activity that transcended all demographic divides. Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead. 2012: 12 Themes. View more presentations from rossdawson. CROWD WORK. MORE >>

2006). This is a longer post launching my week in the #change11 MOOC (Massively Open Online Course).  . Our formal learning approaches too often don’t follow how our brains really work.  Our limitations are no longer the technology, but our imaginations. The question is, what are we, and should be, doing with this technology? Readings. 2004).  MORE >>

Enterprise 2.0”, is the term used to describe deployment of similar social tools for business purposes (McAfee, 2006). McAfee adopts a technology-centric view in his 2006 article of how social tools benefit organizations. Other research has looked at the role of organizational commitment (Cole & Bruch, 2006). 2006). MORE >>

  I saw from another source that in 1986 75% of the knowledge that a worker needed was stored in workers’ heads but by 2006, that number was estimated to be 9%. I recently received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. MORE >>

2006). Unfortunately, I still haven't figured out how to include my word graphics into blogger and since I don't have a lot of time to figure it out, it will just have to be left out of this post. The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. References Akgun, A., MORE >>