After posting my 4 Meta Skills for Learning Professionals in response to Tony’s July “Big Question,” he commented: was hoping that you would provide insight into the core skills and knowledge around communities and networks that learning professionals should have? What’s the 5 minute and 60 minute learning piece that all knowledge workers should have to go through so they will be better at this? It is hard to let some Tony Karrer disappointment persist. Nancy - I was super excited when I saw that you had posted on the topic.

I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is. When Tony Karrer asks for 5 and 60 minute learnings on what new skills do learning professional need, clearly I’m falling well past the 60 minute mark. These three directly address the follow up question Tony It has become clear. Here is part 3.

Tweehive : ‘Fashioned by a group of creative nature enthusiasts,  Tweehive  is a mass role play by human beings of a bee colony on Twitter, which will be played on three specific days in July, August and September with a view to raise bee awareness, wonderment, interest, actions and to generate traffic to bee related sites and resources.’ We Broke Twilight : We’re interested in fan-curated stories and story-telling in general, so were interested to learn of this LiveJournal community where users can create a character and then go off on their own to write the character’s

Tweets) for the Week: July 25, 2009 The Living we're learning to cope with information overload . Look extraordinary videos that require no words: Learn to Fly , a African blue cranes learning to fly, and a first successful flight. The Struggle BLOG Links (and Top Tweets) Living Field: My always-provocative

This is a reblog of a guest blog post I did on Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology Blog: What the heck is a Domain and why should I care? (CoP They value their collective competence and learn from each other, even though few people outside the group may value or even recognize their expertise. It is what is important enough for us to make time to participate, to learn these crazy online tools if that’s CoP with Nancy White) . I’m republishing them here with Darren’s blessing!

Around the Globe April 24, 2009 NetSciCom 2009 Rio de Janeiro May 1-2, 2009 Visualization of Social Networks Munich, Germany June 1-5, 2009 UCINet and NetDraw Workshop Lexington, KY, USA June 12, 2009 VNA Workshop -- Optimizing Business Performance San Francisco June 16-19, 2009 Social Network Theory and Methods Pisa, Italy June 15-19, 2009 Summer School in Longitudinal Network Data Analysis Siena, Bologna July 20-22, 2009 2009 Int'l Conference on Advances in SNA & Data Mining Athens, Greece Aug 30-Sep 4,

Allow yourself time to learn and work through things. My flight was cancelled from Christchurch, so I was late getting into Wellington for the inaugural SharePoint Conference in New Zealand. The conference is being held at The Duxton Hotel, and there's 200-300 people here. There's about 30 people standing up at the back of the room.

Learn from My KM Mistakes) Oops! #1. when a new boss comes in), long learning curve for new employees, obscure parallel pathways (e.g. One of our solutions is to help a client develop and learn to evolve a “Learning-Oriented Systems Manual.” client who is an IPR grabber A global development institution wanted us to provide them Apin Talisayon’s Weblog – Knowledge Management provides useful TOOLS but it leaves MANY GAPS – Oops! (Learn 1.

Claroline is an open source e-learning environment, where workshops can be shaped and participants supervised. High bandwidth is not necessary as the application is kept very simple. The next interview took place at Juli 18, 2006 with Hanneke Spaans from MDF. Exchanging information and guiding students “ MDF is a management training and consultancy bureau for enhancing management capacities of professionals and organisations in the development sector. What is Claroline? What are the features of Claroline?

was hugely appreciative that Michael Coglan , Robyn Jay and Stephan Ridgway took some time to make a podcast with Michael about the August FLNW ( Future of Learning in a Networked World ) road trip here in the Pacific Northwest of the US.  Anyway, the podcast and rereading this thread from our email list has me trying again to express what  I learned and what I am still feeling.  Warning: long, rambly post that is more for the FLNW network than many of  you, dear readers. But it is something I owe, and because of the  nature of the network, I owe it publicly.