Best of Working Smarter Daily

January 1, 2011 to December 17, 2011

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines. Here’s how we choose the crème de la crème for your enjoyment.

The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

1. Network thinking- Harold Jarche, December 15, 2011
2. 5 Stages of Workplace Learning (Revisited)- Jane Hart, December 6, 2011
3. 12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead- Ross Dawson, December 4, 2011
4. Open Learning Analytics: A proposal- George Siemens, December 10, 2011
5. The connected company- Dave Gray, February 8, 2011
6. Flip the classroom – every teacher should do this- Donald Clark Plan B, March 17, 2011
7. What if Flickr fails?- Doc Searls , January 12, 2011
8. Losing interest in social media: there is no there there- George Siemens, July 30, 2011
9. A sense of bewronging- Doc Searls , April 2, 2011
10. 2011 Top 100 Tools List and Presentation finalised- Jane Hart, November 14, 2011
11. The Fallacy of Digital Natives- Dan Pontefract, October 17, 2011
12. Recording can improve a bad lecture! 7 surprising facts about recorded lectures- Donald Clark Plan B, September 17, 2011
13. Ten ways to create a knowledge ecology- Euen Semple, June 27, 2011
14. 7 objections to social media in learning (and answers)- Donald Clark Plan B, June 11, 2011
15. “Alone Together”: An MIT Professor’s New Book Urges Us to Unplug- Marcia Conner (FC), January 19, 2011
16. E-portfolios – 7 reasons why I don’t want my life in a shoebox- Donald Clark Plan B, March 31, 2011
17. The “Big Five” IT trends of the next half decade: Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data- Dion Hinchcliffe, October 2, 2011
18. Review: The Edupunks’ Guide, by Anya Kamenetz- Stephen Downes: Half an Hour, August 8, 2011
19. We are the medium- David Weinberger, January 31, 2011
20. Earthquake turns TV networks into print- Doc Searls , March 11, 2011
21. 5 Reasons Why Activity Streams Will Save You From Information Overload- Luis Suarez, May 4, 2011
22. Anticipating the Next Wave of Experience Design- John Hagel, March 28, 2011
23. Reddit and community journalism- David Weinberger, August 13, 2011
24. Agile eLearning – 27 Great Articles- Tony Karrer, April 6, 2011
25. Gladwell proves too much- David Weinberger, February 4, 2011
26. Social media & learning – note taking on steroids- Donald Clark Plan B, June 20, 2011
27. Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does!- Jane Hart, September 12, 2011
28. World wide puddle- Doc Searls , April 1, 2011
29. Resolving the Trust Paradox- John Hagel, June 27, 2011
30. A big question- David Weinberger, May 1, 2011
31. SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism- Ross Dawson, April 9, 2011
32. Introducing the Digital Learning Quadrants- Dan Pontefract, October 20, 2011
33. The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail | Dawn.- Dawn of Learning, April 13, 2011
34. The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context- John Hagel, May 23, 2011
35. Examples of eLearning–Ten Great Resources- Tony Karrer, January 11, 2011
36. Social learning for business- Harold Jarche, January 20, 2011
37. Why E2.0 and Social Business Initiatives Are Likely to Remain Difficult- Jon Husband, September 12, 2011
38. Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment- Donald Clark Plan B, May 15, 2011
39. Time’s Up – Learning Will Forever Be Part Formal, Part Informal and Part Social- Dan Pontefract, February 6, 2011
40. This will be fun: Mother of all MOOCs- George Siemens, May 19, 2011
41. The Social Learning Handbook is now available- Jane Hart, January 24, 2011
42. Google+ – fundamental misunderstanding of networks?- George Siemens, July 10, 2011
43. Avoiding Half-baked Personas- Adaptive Path, January 11, 2011
44. Learning With and From Others: Restructuring Budgets for Social Learning- Dan Pontefract, January 6, 2011
45. Enterprise 2.0 the Indian Way- Andy McAfee, April 7, 2011
46. The Horizon Report 2011- Jane Hart, February 9, 2011
47. You are the Collective Wisdom of both Strong & Weak Ties- Dan Pontefract, April 24, 2011
48. It is the structure of social networks that shapes influence… and the structure is changing- Ross Dawson, February 5, 2011
49. Alternate Pedagogies and Experiences- Clark Quinn, May 18, 2011
50. The Networked Workplace- Harold Jarche, May 22, 2011
51. Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use ‘Connected Learning’ Instead- Dan Pontefract, May 23, 2011
52. Reinventing Management: Part 4: Coordination: From bureaucracy to.- Steve Denning, January 23, 2011
53. What is Google+ for?- David Weinberger, July 8, 2011
54. Fresh Made Biz Card for FlasyYourVGadget [Flickr]- Nancy White, June 5, 2011