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Category Archives: Work and Learning 2.0
US Department of Labor Employees Meet Each Other (and US!) on Facebook
“We’re All Doing It”
Last month the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched a Facebook page. Other federal agencies maintain them too, but DOL hasn’t really been out-front in implementing the Administration’s early commitment to communication, transparency, and participation. While Facebook is just one means of demonstrating this commitment (the Department, and Secretary of Labor Hilda [...]
Also posted in Gov20, Social Change, Social Media & Engagement Factoids, Uncategorized Tagged citizen engagement, Department of Labor, DOL, facebook, jobs, social media, transparency, twitter, unemployment, USDOL, work 3 Comments
The Power of Connecting
Smart Communities Connect, Share, and Drive from Data
At the risk of making this post feel like an ad, I embedded “The Way We Work” above. The video clearly explains (from an enterprise perspective) the same theory of change we’re trying to advance from a community perspective – how connecting us to each and to the [...]
Also posted in Community, Gov20, Uncategorized Tagged Collaboration, community, gov2.0, IBM, smart cities, smart communities Leave a comment
The Future of Work and Learning is Today
Learning Online Pays Off
Students, educators and others can access syllabi, lecture notes, audio and video for almost every MIT course offered today, and over 50 million have done so. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of education has done a meta-analysis that shows that students who take all or part of their classes online generally perform better [...]
Also posted in Longform, Social Media & Engagement Factoids Tagged education, facebook, jobs, learning, social networks, talent, twitter, web2.0, work Leave a comment
New Working Paper: Social Change with a Network Mindset
Monitor Institute Releases Working Wikily 2.0
Networks and Social Change
We love and have been following the Working Wikily blog for some time now, but authors Diana Scearce, Gabriel Kasper, and Heather McLeod Grant have outdone themselves on this one. We agree that a networked mindset is evolving – and it changes assumptions about how the world [...]
Also posted in Social Change, Social Innovation, Treasures Tagged community2.0, culture, learning2.0, mindset, monitor, networks, social change, web2.0, wiki 1 Comment
Michael Wesch: “The Crisis of Significance”
People love learning things that matter.
People want to learn what’s significant.
Michael Wesch creates significance for the University of Manitoba, and for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between the new media ecosystem and the kind of learning we need now. It’s a bit long, but engaging enough to entertain, and instructive enough to make [...]
Also posted in Social Change, Treasures Tagged anthropology, education, learning, learning2.0, michael, web2.0, wesch Leave a comment
Big Changes at Work