In the March 2010 issue of Chief Learning Officer, I explore the future of the social learning management system. As a result, I’ve been having a number of excellent conversations with people who have been thinking about the future of learning and development. The traditional design methodologies of ADDIE and ISD need re-envisioning in the [...]

Chief Learning Officer Magazine published an article of mine about the newly emerging field of social learning in its August 2009 issue. What’s social learning? It’s the intersection of corporate learning (training and development) with social networks. In this article, I get to reference not only applications like Twitter and Facebook, but I explore new [...]

It’s nice to say that “your network is your net worth.” If social capital really does connect to monetary capital, then you should have opportunities to perform a balance transfer between the two. Two researchers, Roberto Fernandez and Emilio Castilla, focused on this question and studied the value of referral bonuses in the workplace. They [...]

A friend of mine, Peter Winick, recently made the following observation. “When you’re ten years old, you can only go as far as your bike will take you. Anything further than two miles may as well be two-thousand miles.” Some of us are completely comfortable jumping on a plane for a business meeting. Myself, I’ve [...]