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12/21	May your festive season be filled with stories - Anecdote From a story perspective, Christmas is a prolific time of year. As we gather with friends and families we recall the memories of the past and create new stories as presents are unwrapped, as turkeys emerge from the oven (or the Weber BBQ in the Schenk household), as Dads relive past triumphs with a half-century in the backyard cricket and, for some, as family members rub each other up the wrong..
12/21	The filtering professional - Communities of practice for development This blogpost was originally written by me for the NVO2 blog, for HRD professionals Statement: professionals should learn to digest more information and improve their filtering skills.. This is necessary to increase their general awareness of what is going on in their environment. Develop antennas for what's new in their profession, trends, custo..
12/20	Rely on Informal Learning Alone? Are we Nuts? - Collaborative Learning I’ve been spending some time with the Internet Time Alliance’s 5 Stages of Workplace Learning diagram, and with a lot of folks who are champions of informal learning and the Workplace Learning Model. The desired end point is stage five, where there is no longer any traditional workplace learning managed and controlled by L&D, but rather there are autonomous learners, collaboratively workin..
12/19	Kerenza and Chris and the new Anecdote Keep Cup - Anecdote Click to see larger version 800 wide 12/16	Access to a world of practice - Learning Alliances How communities of practice give us access to observing, orienting, deciding, and acting in a world of practice. Happy Corner, where the tailors studied by Jean Lave (2011) worked in the 1970′s, was a remarkable community of practice.  The community provided resources an individual couldn't afford like sewing machines or cutting tables, real-time help making or verify..
12/16	What does it mean to “use social media?” - Collaborative Learning You’d have to be living under a rock to be unaware that the use of social media is considered to be THE hot skill effective kno..
12/15	A story for Christmas - Anecdote The young father stood in line at the layby counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter. "She told him, 'No, I'm paying for it,'" recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manag..
12/15	Aguilas and Callabardina Christmas 2010 - DARnet Time capsule pictures from Calabardina and Aguilas in Murcia, Spain just before Christmas 2010. Sad that we can't b..
12/09	New media, new practice - Communities of practice for development I have to confess I read my mail on my biclycle (using my iphone). Two years ago I didn't have mobile internet yet. Twittering and mailing was place-bound to my computer. As a result I was using the first hour behind my computer to work through my mail. Now I can also read tweets and blogs. A good reason for me to read mails while travelling on the bike or in the train. Visiting a ..
12/03	George Osborne's full-blown attack on the countryside will delight rentiers - DARnet The Conservative Party hate everything about Britain and are busy dismantling it. Now the coalition government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places, as the chancellor establishes his Republic of Gideon, finally big landowners have their champion of slash and burn capitalism
12/02	Social media: 4 opportunities for secondary education - Communities of practice for development Not too long ago I went to an evening session about social media at the secondary school of my daughter. It struck me how the subject of social media is approached from fear. I was very happy when I was invited to do three sessions for the teachers of a secondary school myself. You can imagine that it was not about fear, but about the 4 opportunities that social media offer.  &nbs..
12/01	time capsule November 24th to December 8th - DARnet This time last year, an evening session about music online at the School of Everything and Romford Market with a bit of snow. 11/30 5 things that happen when you know your company's strategy - Anecdote You can only act strategically, day in, day out, if you know your company's strategy. Here are five things that happen when you really do know it. you know when to say 'no.' you get better support from your colleagues--they are trying to achieve the same things you can wing it with confidence--the strategy is your safety net you can focus on doing.. 11/29 Making the most of story-work - Anecdote Most organisations investing in story-work today, to either build their brands, engage their employees or one of the many applications story-work can be applied to, are nearly always focussed on storytelling. The meme is strong: storytelling is powerful. Rightly so. But to focus just on storytelling is severely limiting. The most valuable application of story-work combines story-listening, stor.. 11/28 Webinar on serendipitous learning with Jane Hart - Communities of practice for development Last week we discussed the term 'serendipity' in our learning trajectory on social media. One participant thought this might be a country in Africa :). Se.. 11/25 Blue House Farm North Fambridge - DARnet Blue House Farm Bird Reserve, North Fambridge Thursday is our new day off, so we took ourselves out of London on the Eastern Railway line towards Southend and then on the little single track branch line from Wickham to North Fambridge11/20 Delete WordPress Plugins with ManageWP - DARnet I've just been using ManageWP beta – the web utility for managing multiple WordPress installations – to .. 11/18 Top Tools? Or Right Tools? - Collaborative Learning Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has put together a list of 11/18 WordPress London #7 - DARnet I went to WordPress London meetup number #7 last night, hosted by Headshift at their office near Shad Thames, along the south bank of the Thames, east of 11/15 time capsule November 8th – 20th 2010 Alexandra Lake Wanstead Flats - DARnet 11/10 Story quote of the week - Anecdote Click to see larger version 800x600 11/10 New emerging practices for trainers and facilitators - Communities of practice for development I'm currently facilitating two learning trajectories, both sta.. 11/08 Karl Marx, part 1: Religion, the wrong answer to the right question - DARnet With the current phase of capitalist crisis posing extremely stark questions about the fundamental nature of the system, you would think all the mainstream media would be falling over each other to wheel out academics and reformed revolutionaries to explain in simple terms “Why Marx was right after all” or “We're all dialectical materialists now” but apparently not. Earl.. 11/03 Story quote of the week - Anecdote Click to see larger version 800x600 11/02 About serial mastery and social media - Communities of practice for development One of my interest areas is the professionalisation process of professionals. How do you become a master, an expert, a thought leader? What are the best ways to learn individually and collectively? Shift- the future of work is already here An inspiring book in that context is 'The shift by Linda Gratton'- a must read.. 11/01 The Bonzo Dog Band on Do Not Adjust Your Set - DARnet YouTube allows the rediscovery of highlights from very distant memory, in this case the seminal TV series ‘Do Not Adjust Your Set” featuring the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Here they are performing “Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah”: How we judge stories - Anecdote I found myself watching parliamentary question time today on TV (OK, I was tired. I did yoga for the first time last night). There were lots of questions about when exactly did the leaders of the government and the opposition know about Qantas CEO's, Alan Joyce, decision to ground his airline. It was a heated debate. (BTW, why can't anyone speak normally in parliament? Everthing is said in stac.. Powered by Feed Informer