The folks over at Mashable are running a poll entitled “How Did You Find Out About Osama Bin Laden’s Death?” I equate this to how you might have ‘learned’ about the incident. At least 54% of respondents used one of Twitter, Facebook and/or instant messaging social media tools. The other 46% learned the news through television, telephone, texting and ‘other source’ which I presume concerns outlets such as face-to-face, radio, morse code, etc. For those that learned the news through social media, how many of you went on to research and ultimately learn about other topics such as: Abbottabad Navy SEALS 9/11 Al-Qaeda How did you learn? Was it a combination of purposeful AND serendipitous learning? Once somebody shared some form of knowledge, did it
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I’m not known to normally pick a fight with someone, but if I see or read something that seems somewhat incongruent to a combination of my beliefs and formal research, well, I tend to stick myself into the fray. See Kirkpatrick posts one and two for both comedic relief and testament to the aforementioned. Jennifer Sertl seems like a talented person. She’s an author, runs a blog, has her own company, and generally looks to be more than successful in her career. I can’t recall when I started following her on Twitter, however, during the week of April 18 whilst taking an autodidactic break from the world of corporate culture change, I happened upon a tweet of hers and consequently retweeted a response of disagreement:
RSS (known as Really Simple Syndication or occasionally as Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary) is defined by PC Magazine as follows: A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and news sites. Although I’m not advocating to actually change the RSS definition, perhaps it’s time we viewed it as more than syndication of content. Another way to view RSS is as a collaborative behaviour. Imagine it as a mechanism in which we, Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0/Social Business consumers and creators, aggregate, enhance and improve user-generated social content itself. Rather than thinking RSS is merely a technical gadget that provides collated content to our various RSS readers, we can begin to think
For a so-called knowledge worker like me, it doesn’t really matter what city I call home. If I’m employed by an organization helping to lead various change ideas and opportunities related to leadership, technology and learning, I should be a role model to others in the company as well as my children, my network, etc. If I’m hypothetically working as a consultant, writer, coach, speaker, etc. it also shouldn’t matter what city I call home. If I’m ever going to actually tackle that Open PhD, then it also shouldn’t matter where I live. And “zat book” is coming along nicely, but laptops are not cemented to the walls of a house. I currently reside in Vancouver. In a few short months, I and the family