Enterprise Micro-Learning: Implications for the Future of the Work

by Jenny Ambrozek

October 13, 2008 at 10:12 am · Filed under Reviews

Via Twitter this morning. Marcia Conner,  (MarciaMarcia on Twitter) pointed to her Fast Company blog post on Micro-Learning, describing it ”as all the rage”.

The post found here is recommended reading  http://snurl.com/4b5va

In addition to providing a scan of how micro-learning (also referred to as ”micro-blogging, micro-sharing, micro-messaging tools”)  is and maybe used in organizations, the article  provides a list of related terms to add to your vocabulary including:

“Social Seaming, Detail intimacy. Social serendipity, Life-stream immediacy”

My question to Marcia Conner via Twitter was:

“How long to widespread adoption do you predict?”

I’m interested in how TheAppGap readers view the value of  micro-messaging technologies like Twitter,  and emerging “enterprise-focused Twitter cousins such as Yammer, ESME, Headmix and SocialText3“, and your predictions for use in organizations?

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I suspect 1 in 4 employees are micro-learning today through Twitter, Facebook updates (see my related post here (http://snurl.com/3xoee) and FB group on the same theme (http://snurl.com/3wezc), or a whole host of other tiny channels with potential for learning large lessons. I suspect it will be at least a year before we see widespread adoption of similar tools behind the firewall, and that will depend mostly on the quality of the tools coming out. Unlike other enterprise tools, if companies don’t adopt these, their people will circumvent the organization and micro-message on unsecured sites. There will always be people who don’t see the benefits of tools like these. They are the same ones who don’t think learning happens nonstop and informally in-house. That’s OK. Those around them are learning anyway. The damns are gone. Best to be leaning to paddle and swim.

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