Walter Logeman: Journal
The power of a community environment will eventually replace e-mail as the dominant mode of group communication. In some form, community communication serves a critical function for almost every business, and most major business will make significant investments in community capabilities in Internet, Extranet, and Intranet settings in the next two years.
This is an incredible statement – but true! Thanks to Dan Randow for the reference.
Impression Formation in Cyberspace: Online Expectations and Offline Experiences in Text-based Virtual Communities
Good to know about this Journal!
Roadshow Diaries: May 29, 2000 (more)
The new economy is very active in France at the moment. There are many communities developing around the Internet. LinkUAll provides technology for the Net industry: calendars, address books, group messaging, file storage. The important thing is to provide a common platform for the tools so people have a unified set of collaboration tools that can be used separately or together – but organized in terms of activities. If you link people around activities, you can identify who has the right to see what.”
Many more gems like this here.
BULFINCH’S MYTHOLOGY: THE AGE OF FABLE OR STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES
I have a lavishly illustrated copy of this with an intro by Josheph Campbell, but it is nice to know where this is, easier to quote from.
The People Are the Company
How to build your company around your people.
by John Seely Brown and Estee Solomon Gray
illustrations by Alistair Thomas
from FC issue -Premiere, page 78
Article – Communities of Practice
(Learning and work as social activities)
by David Stamps
associate editor of TRAINING Magazine.
Copyright © 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Learning is social. Training is irrelevant?
As the end of a century draws near, the air is sure to thicken with prophecies about the future, including the future of work. The “knowledge worker” will be a favorite topic of management soothsaying; so will “the learning organization.”
But for a clear vision of how learning should happen in a business setting, you need only talk to Dede Miller, a customer service representative for Xerox Corp. For two years she was treated to a tantalizing glimpse of the future. Today she finds herself wishing she could go back to it.
To know her story is to understand just how wide a gap still separates learning theory and common training practice – and how hard it will be to apply new approaches to workplace training, even those that make incontestable sense.
URL:s These are the ones that are most interesting in my opinion. More can be found by exploring the collections of links within these sites. These links are not in order of my preference. I drew the line at twenty links, since I think any sane person will find this is enough to read.
useful list of urls.
The Making of a Virtual Professor
Richard B. Kettner-Polley
Professor of Business Administration
International School of Information Management University
ABSTRACT
The role of the professor is changing dramatically. Lectures endure despite the fact that they were outmoded as soon as books became readily available to students. This is a case study in the transformation of one traditional professor into a virtual professor. On one level this is only one persons story. On another level it is a sign of the times. Jorge Klor de Alvas choice to leave one of the most prestigious universities in the country for the University of Phoenix is a signal event. Traditional academia will change, and it is the quiet transformation of traditional professors into virtual professors that tells the true story behind this revolution.
Welcome to Tutors-Online! Online courses, training, development and course design
Tutors-Online offers you a number of online courses, with more being added regularly. Visit our current course listing, find out about our featured courses or enrol in a course. If you’ve never tried online learning before, why not take our demonstration course now – it will only take 5 minutes!
Does your institution or corporation have courses and training material you would like to make available on the Internet or your Intranet? Take our Course in On-Line Teaching, or let us do everything for you.