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I've always been intrigued by the concept of learning. It's one of the reason I like blogging so much and social media in general. It's a great way to learn! Every now and then I bump into a great post or interview about this topic. Just recently I read a great interview with John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas about their new book 'A New Culture of Learning' ( part 1 and part 2 ). I was planning to read the book. After reading this interview I'm going to push it up on my to-read list. Thanks Henry Jenkins for sharing this interview with us. I'll share some interesting statements from the interview with you here: One of the key arguments we are making is that the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments. Our argument brings to the fore the old aphorism "imagination is more important than knowledge." In a networked worl...

Commoncraft does it again ! They released another video explaining something no too easy in an easy way. This video is about social media and the workplace . It mostly focuses on explaining how companies can join in the conversation. And how not only comms but all employees can be empowered by being trained and giving them clear social media guidelines . I enjoyed it and hope you will too. It's great stuff when you need to explain to company decision makers what social media is about and how to use it.