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 [...]

This week, Ars Technica reports that the American Chemical Society will shift from printing physical journals to digital-only publishing–so that scholars, pratitioners, and students can find the information they need online easily. Eventually, we’re heading to a world where bound-journals sitting on musty library shelves will become an experience of the past. After all, you [...]

As humans, we learn from the successes and failures of others. As a child, we might put a hand on the stove, even  though someone warned us that we would get burnt. However, as we get older, we quickly learn that we do not need to test every single possibility ourselves. We can learn from [...]

Recently, the Freakonomics blog pointed towards a sociologist at the University of Utrecht who conducted seven-year longitudinal study of social networks. 604 people were surveyed about their friends. Then, seven years later, the participants listed their friends again. According to the study, only 48% of original friends showed up on the second list. The study [...]