A detour to consider pacing: Opening up my course #MSLOC430 #WOLweek

Update on day 2 of #WOLweek. My plans today were to make some headway in identifying new readings for my course, and I had a wee bit of success. More organizing and reacquainting myself with a few of articles that I had saved as potential readings. See my updates to the Google doc syllabus that … Continue reading A detour to consider pacing: Opening up my course #MSLOC430 #WOLweek

Outlining #msloc430 course topics and flow

I continue to think about opening up my course - MSLOC 430 - on enterprise social networks and knowledge sharing and am in the process of tweaking the course topics I cover and the general flow of the course. My current back-of-the-blog-post thinking is to craft some new, open activities in the second half of the course in which we facilitate a set of conversations about one or two key questions: How do we lead (as formal leaders or informal change agents) within fully connected enterprises? How do we conduct experiments in organizing, to re-imagine the way work gets done? Do practices and tools focused on "idea management" or crowdsourcing offer insight to how to achieve more tangible outcomes of the networked enterprise?

Opening up my course on enterprise knowledge sharing #msloc430

I teach a course on enterprise knowledge sharing for the Master's Program in Learning and Organizational Change at Northwestern University - MSLOC 430 - in the Winter and Spring quarters (January - March, March - June). For the past two years I have used class blog assignments and Twitter chats to create a tiny bit … Continue reading Opening up my course on enterprise knowledge sharing #msloc430

Twitter chat Storify: What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise?

I published a Storify of the May 20 Twitter chat What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise? that includes discussion (and resources) focused on the following questions: Q1: Imagine we are in a business/organization that truly embraces enterprise social networks as key to success. As leaders in this organization are there things … Continue reading Twitter chat Storify: What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise?

May 20 Twitter Chat: What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise? #msloc430

Let's assume we are enthusiasts for the organizational vision - and change - associated with the potential of embracing enterprise social networking as core to our enterprise. We get it. We get that it's not just about the technology. That it's about gaining real value from weak network ties, from serendipity, from diverse ideas and … Continue reading May 20 Twitter Chat: What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise? #msloc430