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.

Via Jay Cross I found this learning organisation scan under the title Is Yours a Learning Organisation? good tool to start talking about what a learning organisation is. I think the term 'learning organisation' knows many different interpretations. lot on the Harvard Business Review site, developed by David A. Garvin, Amy C.

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.

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A local colleague and Boston KM Forum friend, Maya Townsend , has just published a terrific article in Chief Learning Officer magazine: Leveraging Human Networks to Accelerate Learning . I am particularly happy to see how Maya positioned the need for learning officers to leverage networks. And the best way to leverage networks is to understand their Maya interviewed me for the article, and I'm pleased to be quoted along side of Karen Stephenson , one of the pioneers of organizational network analysis. Dr.

Tomorrow I'm going to write with Sibrenne Wagenaar ; we are writing a booklet on social media for learning and collaboration. I see a higher emphasis on social media from a marketing perspectives than from a learning perspective. If you jump on it for marketing purposes, you will have a different focus and process than when you want to explore how social media can stimulate learning and knowledge sharing processes. I really enjoy Netsquared's thinktank blogging questions sent out to several bloggers each month.. it forces you to think about a topic and you read the other

The netsquared thinktank question is this time: ' What was the best example or lesson learned about leveraging social media from the political campaigns this year?' At first, I didn't feel like responding. But it's a nice opportunity to find out more about how Obama leveraged the social media- I have heard it was a great campaign and his team made good use of the media in general and social media in particular. I have followed the campaigns of Obama and McCain filtered through the Dutch news.

If you head over to the main link you will see now a new section on the right side titled " Best practices for social computing " with the following text underneath it: "Many clients and organizations have expressed an interest in learning more about IBM’s Social Computing Guidelines and how we communicate them to employees. know that a good number of companies have been leveraging and reusing some elements from the original guidelines and I’m sure they would also enjoy this new one. If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know how I have been blogging for a good number of times about one of those topics that people keep asking me about to share my two cents of the conversation: Social Software Governance and what IBM is doing about it .