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Becoming a better craftsman. Sharing ideas and building foundations.
I’m having an unusual experience this week. The chance to spend two days with a small group of experts sharing ideas, learning new things and reflecting on the things i already know (or thought i...
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Cross pollination. Why generalising can be a great thing.
I’d have to throw my hands up to admit to being a generalist. I flit happily between disciplines, peeking over the edge of the abyss at the vast range of knowledge, picking out a few choice pieces,...
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Where do good ideas come from? Reflecting on where we spend our most...
I’ve got a book in my hand called ‘where good ideas come from‘ (S Johnson, 2010, Penguin). The subtitle is ‘a natural history of innovation‘. It looks great. One day i’ll actually read it. That would...
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The convergence of mobile and social learning
I used to view mobile and social learning separately: social learning as ‘the semi formal layers of learning that surround the formal‘ and mobile learning as primarily technology, but my mindset has...
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Choose your words carefully: semantic stretch and why not to be super cool
Big data is the big thing: finding meaning in the chaos, teasing out the truth, so i was particularly interested in a project that discussed an analysis of how our use of certain words has evolved over...
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Building a marketplace for ideas: #diversity for social learning
Communities are built on consensus: they tolerate difference and thrive on diversity, but only within limits. Stretch them too far and there will be a break. I’ve been revisiting ideas around...
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Working out loud: a #SocialAge trait
One recurring feature of the Social Age is the nature of working out loud: developing our ideas within our communities, sharing them before they are fully formed and getting the benefit from the wisdom...
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Collaboration and the proliferation of ideas
I’m in New York this week presenting at a conference and developing new ideas. I love these events: a chance to share thoughts, forcing me to create narratives that weave through the many different...
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Balance and trust: working out loud
Finding our balance is not always easy, but without trust and a broad perspective, backed by humility, we cannot learnI was struggling to find a balance last week: trying to finish some writing, attend...
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On the fifth day of Christmas Learning: Social Learning
Social Learning is always and inherently within our communities: it’s about creating meaning, about sharing stories, about being more effectiveI’m dedicating the last twelve days of writing to a series...
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Feel the fear and do it anyway: writing bad stories to learn
We used stories today to write good and then bad examples of community management. Funnily enough, the bad stories were easier to write. I wished i’d used the decibel meter on the iPhone as we were...
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A marketplace for creativity: why collaboration may be infectious
Markets are bustling places: crates of fruit and vegetables, fish piled high on ice, shouting and haggling, people jostling for space, drifts of empty cardboard boxes piled high, smells mingling and...
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The Ideas Butterfly: a social way of working (out loud)
In many ways, the idea is the easy part: making something of it is what counts and, in the Social Age, we do that within and alongside our communities. Today i took part in Chat2Lrn, a regular Twitter...
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From Social to Formal: professional development in the Social Age
The curriculum for Social Leadership has emerged from the iterations through the social spaces. It wasn’t the starting point: it’s the outputOver a year after i started working on the Social Leadership...
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Sparks
It’s everywhere. Inspiration: sparks falling in the dry leaves, flames curling and spitting, ideas burning brightly, fanned by the winds of conversation and fed by the fuel of sharing. After two days...
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The Need to Explore
A kayak trip tomorrow: we are packing warm jumpers and wet gear, two thermos flasks and baguettes for lunch. A day on the water: exploring. It’s hardly uncharted waters: the harbour here is twelve...
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The Social Age Safari – Connect the Dots
We are deep in the heart of the Social Age Safari. This is a prototype event, a live rehearsal, a chance to bring together a number of ideas to see what works. A series of three-hour hack events,...
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Socially Dynamic Traits: Ideation, Aggregation and Dissemination
I’m writing today around a new area, the Socially Dynamic Organisation. I’m using this term in a very specific context, to talk about organisations that sit in the Dynamic expression of the Dynamic...
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‘The Trust Sketchbook’ is coming
Today is the last day of the Kickstarter Campaign for ‘The Trust Sketchbook‘, and i’m pleased to say that it’s been highly successful, for two reasons. First: it’s exceeded the target significantly,...
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What Can You Leave Behind?
A few years ago, i was planning for an expedition, packing and repacking my backpack, trying to squeeze in every last thing that i may need, whilst keeping the overall weight manageable. At some point...
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