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Re: Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni - Changing Habits, Behaviors, and Attitudes: What will Stick?

Marcia Conner — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:57:18 -0000

From bias, to change, to heartfelt priorities, you've addressed so many things on my mind in these tumultuous times. Thank you. Beautifully framed.

Re: Zero to Maker: Is Making Nature or Nurture?

Marcia Conner — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:15:37 -0000

While I realize Gareth had hoped we'd discuss this years ago, the question is as relevant now as ever. I don't believe the answer is binary either... or even fixed once the maker switch has set to on. Rather, I look to people's natural drives and motivations. We all have them, makers and buyers alike.

For those who are goal-motivated, will welding the grill achieve my goal? If it's just fixing food, then there are more efficient ways to reach that one. If it's to prove to ourselves or others we can weld a grill, then by all means weld away!

For those who are relationship-motivated, welding may bring me closer to others interested in learning and working with me... or better stories to tell around the grill itself. If it would take me a really long time in general isolation, then we're more likely to spend time around someone else's grill.

And if we're learning/discovery-motivated, then what could be more soul-filling than welding the grill?! Bring it on.

Finally, there's a component of courage: Even if I haven't a clue how to weld a grill well enough to use it someday, am I willing to try, is it worth my time, and am I prepared to appreciate the experience even if it's not at all what I expected? Even if I'm starting from the beginning, getting the full maker experience, do I have confidence the right people will show up in my life to help me along and build a mighty fine grill?

Re: Make a Ruckus Today and Everyday

Marcia Conner — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:51:08 -0000

Game on, indeed, Tony!

Re: Are you the new kid?

Marcia Conner — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 12:29:55 -0000

As we prepare to move (though don't ask where to yet, we're not quite certain), this is a great reminder of the challenges ahead of us and with terrific pointers on how to use the skills we have to make the transition. Thank you for a great post!

Re: The Broken Photocopier in HR. Buy a Scanner Instead.

Marcia Conner — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:31:42 -0000

Human scanner. Great job title. Especially for the days we feel pressed between glass and bright lights. Thanks for this terrific piece, Simon.

Re: The Potential of Social Media

Marcia Conner — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:42:02 -0000

Thank you for leading the charge to move the workforce conversation beyond social media into transforming the world of work.

Re: Stats on Workplace Learning

Marcia Conner — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:26:00 -0000

I've always advocated for reducing the numbers of staff in dedicated L&D departments, in favor of acknowledging and promoting learning in the flow of work through tools, practices, and organizational vision. [Take a look at the whitepaper we wrote on this very topic: http://marciaconner.com/lea....]

Too often the staff is reduced without any organization-wide strategy for fostering a learning culture, where everyone understands part of their job is to be learning non-stop and applying what they learn faster than their competitors. That sometimes happens because L&D leaders are too tactical to be perceived as transformative strategists. More often it's because the tactics they've used in the past don't win the hearts of the larger workforce by being interesting, vital, and key to the organization's success.

Re: Stats on Workplace Learning

Marcia Conner — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:44:34 -0000

Here here!

Re: Trisha’s Gone Google - @mor_trisha

Marcia Conner — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 15:45:45 -0000

"I’m looking forward to getting to know our customers and partners." No doubt they'll be overjoyed getting to know you!

Re: Turning Words Into Swords

Marcia Conner — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:59:29 -0000

Re: Listen vs. Hear

Marcia Conner — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:32:18 -0000

Soon after finishing this post, my tennis-coach husband received a package from Holabird Sports (http://www.holabirdsports.com). As he opened the package he told me that one thing he really likes about the company is that whenever they can, they put the smaller items he orders inside the bigger boxes, which keeps the price of shipping down. When he opened the box of shoes, sure enough there were his strings, neatly nestled in the extra space. There was also a note inside, signed by the person who packed the box. After reading it, I had the sense that Mike (or whoever you'd find at the end of the line if you called or wrote) would hear what you had to say. #wellplayed

Re: Learning Styles Gold

Marcia Conner — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:34:00 -0000

Steve, thank you so much for this comment. Introspection and reflection are valuable tools I'd hate to see tossed out with the bath water. Or is that ocean water?

Re: Kindle Highlights Social Learning

Marcia Conner — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:42:54 -0000

Thanks, Kim, for this great tip! Notes I've taken on various books have saved me countless hours -- and created more time for finishing up books!

Re: You Can Do Anything

Marcia Conner — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:39:09 -0000

Thanks for weighing in, Paul. I'm saddened when I learn others didn't have this same opportunity and might have missed, all together, effort leads to results. Now with a young son, I notice how seriously he takes the wide open and far-reaching vision I have for his future -- and for us all. So good to hear we're not alone.

Re: What Is Social Learning?

Marcia Conner — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:56:11 -0000

While we focus on social learning now (thankfully, finally), given all the great tools, I look forward to the next big opportunity: social curiosity, surfacing what people are beginning to think on, wonder about, and look at through the lens of the world around them.

Re: Social Business by the Numbers

Marcia Conner — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:14:18 -0000

My motivation for pulling this together was to have a handy place for all of us come back to! Good to hear you'll be returning.

Re: How to Measure Social Learning

Marcia Conner — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:01:00 -0000

Let's not mix up learning with the assistance of social technology and learning socially: participating with others to make sense of new ideas. I think we could all agree almost everything in organizations is learned with other people, even if not across social tools. With that in mind, would you consider it enough to measure how you, yourself, are learning based on your transactions? Of course not. You need to look at what now makes sense.

Re: Conversation Agent: Joining Empathy Lab to Drive Business Strategy

Marcia Conner — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:07:28 -0000

So thrilled for you! Congratulations, mazel tov, pongezi...

Re: Time To Build Your Big-Data Muscles

Marcia Conner — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:38:26 -0000

Your story from 1988 evoked a memory flurry of the data I was working with that same year. In some ways it seems like so long ago, and in other ways just a second ago. Imagine if we could have predicted our current predicament back then.

While writing this post I found so many mind-bending figures about just how much data we have now that I dedicated an entire post on my own blog to those stats (http://marciaconner.com/blo....

Thank you for refocusing on the questions, as Jamie did as well, and reminding us not to misplace the real questions any time soon.

Re: Time To Build Your Big-Data Muscles

Marcia Conner — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:28:43 -0000

Excellent point, Jamie. We need to develop new literacies around how to deal with the data and how to ask the right questions. Where the tools themselves can coach us through that, all the better. We just can't convince ourselves that the data, without some human analysis, has all the answers.

Re: Time To Build Your Big-Data Muscles

Marcia Conner — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:25:31 -0000

Abonnabad, Thanks for asking. Some students may not realize the importance of this trend until more schools develop degree programs in analytics and big data, as you said. Thankfully, more schools are beginning to take a more formal approach to the topic with Northwestern and NC State already offering programs and Michigan State beginning one in January 2013.
In the meantime, every school can begin taking a big data approach throughout other degrees. When students have an opportunity to talk about how data is influencing whatever they are studying, they are likely to begin realizing they should consider paying closer attention and thinking about how this will influence their career.

Jeff, I whole heartedly second your response. We need to look for ways to strengthen and broaden all education opportunities including those in schools, those from places like Dataversity and Big Data U, and also on the vast array of opportunities to relate available data with every job. Taking a big data approach is a 21st century literacy everyone needs.

Re: What is social learning?

Marcia Conner — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:03:09 -0000

Social learning may be buzzing about education organizations but it's surely not new or a toy. And revolutionary? I wholeheartedly agree with you that's unlikely. After all, it's the primary way people have been learning since the dawn of humankind. What is new (and has the potential to change business, if not learning, forever) is the addition of social media tools that allow people to connect across the miles and around the clock in convenient and lighthearted ways. We could never have said that about KM.

Here's a quick post on how I define the terms: http://j.mp/SLdefined
Here's a link to a free sample (Forward, Introduction & Chapter one) of The New Social Learning: http://j.mp/TNSLsample

Look forward to the chat. Thanks for initiating it.

- Marcia

Re: Kindle Highlights Social Learning

Marcia Conner — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:14:10 -0000

Lorenzo,

Thank you for your kind words. I'm trying to imagine a world where innovation and collaborative learning are ever enough. There is always need for the day in and day out collecting of new insights, testing them against what we already know, sharing them with others, and reflecting.

Thank you also for introducing me to the alberoventi project. The additional detail I found at http://www.alberoventi.com/... was fascinating, and I look forward to seeking out more. I was especially taken with the description, creating a "platform as a space truss" which could be used with so many different topics.

Re: Campus Party, The Biggest Tech Event You've Never Heard Of

Marcia Conner — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:36:08 -0000

Some fabulous videos from previous Campus Party events just posted to the Telefonica Digital Blog http://j.mp/LgmEee Includes pieces by Stephen Hawkings, Al Gore, Tim Berners Lee, Steve Wozniak, and more.

Re: Make the case for social business

Marcia Conner — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:47:06 -0000

You're very welcome, Judy. More resources to come and a list of straight out stats I find astounding.