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Socially Awkward Networks

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Apr 6, 2008 at 8:50 PM

A woman, who as a girl in gradeschool taunted me enthusiastically, contacted me through a social network site asking if I planned to attend an upcoming reunion. At first I didn't think much about it. I assumed she was on some ...READ»

LEARNING, TRAINING, + DEVELOPMENT | Comment

Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jul 11, 2006 at 7:26 PM

Marcia Conner, managing director of Ageless Learner, a global advisory practice that helps companies and people learn and adapt to new technologies, processes, and information, in her recent Fast Company Learning Resource Center ...READ»

LEARNING, TRAINING, + DEVELOPMENT | 3 comments

Go and Learn

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 5, 2006 at 1:14 PM

"Mobile learning offers people something traditional education cannot: integration into life," says Learning Resource Center columnist Marcia Conner. Read her latest column, "Go and Learn," to discover why she feels that mobile ...READ»

CULTURE | 4 comments

Learn More With Less: Corporate Education in the Current Economy

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 92
Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 8:38 PM

With less money available for corporate education efforts, how can organizations learn more now? Some suggestions are old school, others post-modern. This is the first in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.READ»

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The New Media Skills

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Oct 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM

It's time to review the new set of skills people of all ages require to succeed. After my son told me recently he couldn't find one of his favorite books and that I should, "order another one online," he climbed into my office ...READ»

CULTURE | 2 comments

Are Employees Twittering Away Productivity?

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 90
Mon Nov 3, 2008 at 8:06 PM

Answers to executives' tough questions about microsharing in the enterprise. As the enterprise microsharing market grows all in, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people aren't ...READ»

CULTURE | 1 comment

Learn More With Less: Low-cost Content

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Dec 7, 2008 at 9:37 PM

With less money available for corporate education efforts, how can organizations continue to support intentional learning in the enterprise? This is the second in a series of articles focused on learning as the money runs out.READ»

BARTERING | 2 comments

Learn More with Less: Nontraditional Fundraising for Corporate Education

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Fundraising for your education department. Why not?READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | 1 comment

A Different Approach to Planning

Relevancy Score: 90
Sat Feb 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM

Can you name four magnificent events in your life which came about because of perfect planning? Sure, there was the vacation in '99. Then the move from… oh, scratch that. Even if I count a house we built, which was well-planned but ...READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | 6 comments

You Can Do Anything

Relevancy Score: 90
Fri Jan 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM

"How many of you were told when you were young that you could grow up to be anything you set your mind on?" This was the way a professor-friend recently opened his graduate management course. Fewer than half the people in the room ...READ»

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Time for You to Go

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 86
Sun Feb 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM

With the turning of the seasons, are there leaves in your work and life you are ready to let go? When my husband was leaving a long-time job, the exit interviewer asked if a different role would make him stay. He had envisioned one, ...READ»

CHAOS | Comment

Get Smarter Than Smart

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 81
Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 12:39 AM

A CEO just asked me how to get his people under control. He believes he's doing everything right so it must be his people who are all wrong. He reminds me of the teacher who prepares all summer and then come fall the wrong students ...READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | Comment

Leading People On

Relevancy Score: 81
Wed Dec 5, 2007 at 3:17 PM

Steve Trautman spends his time engaging people in knowledge transfer. We met over a decade ago, helping grow Microsoft from a small software firm to something much more. We didn't work together, per se, although we had similar roles ...READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | Comment

More or Less

Relevancy Score: 77
Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 10:56 AM

Day after day, year after year, I've strived to always do more. In school when I was assigned a paper on an "ism" I wrote it on "Moreism." My first book was titled, Learn More Now. I've not aspired for more goods, rather more ...READ»

MICROSHARING | 2 comments

Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 67
Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 6:20 AM

If you think microsharing (Twitter and it's enterprise-strength counterparts) is new, consider that humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. So what is new, what makes this a revolution?READ»

LEARNING | Comment

What I Learned During My Summer Vacation

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 55
Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 11:55 PM

June through August, when I was young, entailed family trips around the state. In September, when asked about my vacation, I would say brightly, "I visited Mexico, Paris and Lebanon," and then in a quieter voice, ...READ»

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2Do.Over

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 54
Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 1:50 AM

What if 2.0 were an authentic chance to revisit and do over what came in 1.0?READ»

TRAINING | 6 comments

Enterprise Micro-Learning

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 52
Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 12:53 AM

If you can't fathom how Twitter can help your company, read on. When a student opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus last year, the school had no systematic way to alert those in harm's way. In the days that followed, ...READ»

INNOVATION | 7 comments

The Latest in Learning Fast: edu-Twittering

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 52
Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM

A decade ago the hot app on everyone's desktop was PointCast, a personalized headline service of content emblazoned across your screensaver through a pre-RSS feed. No typing required, no link to click through. While on the phone or ...READ»

LEARNING | 3 comments

Twitter Your Time-of-Day

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 51
Sun Dec 21, 2008 at 9:29 PM

Wonder if you're learning all you can from Twitter and Facebook? Consider the time of day.READ»

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Learning Dis'

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 48
Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 4:27 PM

On a drizzly day in Madison Wisconsin, several hundred of my classmates stood in line on Bascom Hill waiting to audition for bit parts in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School. Although I was nowhere near the set months later, ...READ»

INNOVATION | 1 comment

Invitation to a Party

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 47
Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM

Many of my colleagues recently attended the Web2.0Expo in San Francisco. From over 2K miles away I followed those twittering the fine details, longing for a way to easily get to the West Coast. This expo captivated my attention ...READ»

CULTURE | 7 comments

Can Twittering Create an Economy of Words?

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 44
Sun Nov 16, 2008 at 10:36 PM

How companies should use Twitter. More answers to executives' tough questions about microsharing in the enterprise.READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT | 2 comments

Resolution: Create a Stronger, Smarter Organization

Relevancy Score: 39
Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 9:32 PM

Tired of the usual end-of-year reflections? Alongside the new year, you may be looking for a new practice to improve your organization's competitiveness, talent, staying power, and smarts. Conduct a learning culture audit to speed ...READ»

ONLINE COMMUNITY | 5 comments

Face to Facebook Learning

BY Marcia Conner
Relevancy Score: 25
Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 2:17 AM

I'm a voracious learner. In addition to reading magazines, books, blogs, tweets, and faces, I persistently look for patterns, connections, anomalies and what's new. I tolerated school only because it was where my friends were and ...READ»

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