Culture trumps strategy: Genevieve Bell, chief anthropologist at Intel
Editor’s note: Notes from a conversation with Genevieve Bell, chief anthropologist at Intel. Her job: to look at who might use technology and what they might do with it.
Browsing: Curated
Pop music good for studies
Editor’s note: Don’t underestimate the power of music. Researchers show music can be a great motivator for learning.
Education 3.0 and the pedagogy of mobile learning
Editor’s note: useful slidedeck on mobile device take-up and the impact on how we learn.
Reflections on #cipdhrd13 and beyond – it’s time for change
Editor’s note: A review of HRD that ends with a call to arms; ‘In our attempts to “modernise” ourselves in the last 10-15 years, we have actually managed to dilute what we do, so people (our users) no longer understand the value we can bring to an organisation. People development – not learning and development… come on… wake up people!’
Social media and social learning for learning professionals: resources shared at #NEASTD
Editor’s note: Great set of resources from the New England ASTD Conference session on ‘Social Media and Social Learning for Learning Professionals’.
Inheriting second natures
Editor’s note: As the article says: ‘Born with the habit of acquiring new habits we access a behavioral toolkit that is nowhere in our genes . . . Reason dictates that we should choose our second natures wisely, since force of habit ensures we will repeatedly enact them without deliberation. We are habit-forming and habit-farming animals.’
That mentoring malarkey
Editor’s note: HR director Alison Chisnell reviews a session at HRD which featured St Mungo’s and how they use mentoring.
Is Google+ approaching Twitter’s marketing value?
Editor’s note: Insights on Google+ versus Twitter which are useful for L&D. Potentially more engegement and links to other G+ tools to boot.
5 characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work
Editor’s note: From the results of her Learning in the Workplace survey, Jane Hart looks at five key characteristics of how knowledge workers like to learn at work.
Employers are from Mars, young people are from Venus: addressing the young people/jobs mismatch
Editor’s note: A lot of research coming from the CIPD this week. This report shows looks at the mismatch between employers’ expectations of young people during the recruitment process and young people’s understanding of what is expected of them.
Has L&D stalled?
Editor’s note: Sukh Pabial’s despatch from HRD. The assessment: he’s not hearing anything new.
UK workers heading for ‘burnout’, giving 10 hours free labour a week
Editor’s note: With HRD on this week, a timely reminder of the context in which organisations want colleagues to perform and develop.
Stephen Hawking’s advice for twenty-first century grads: Embrace complexity
Editor’s note: Stephen Hawking has called this the ‘century of complexity’. This piece looks at the skills graduates might need to work with that complexity.
Citrix adds do-it-yourself webcasting, announces new HDFaces GoToTraining Beta
Editor’s note: Citrix launches GoToWebcast which allows users to broadcast unlimited audio and video presentations to live and on-demand audiences of up to 5,000 viewers. Also adds video to GoToTraining.
How user data evolves into new features
Andrew Hogue, Foursquare’s head of data and search, shares how his team uses millions of data points to decide what to build next.