homophily

May the Learning Force Be With You

May 31, 2011

I’ve written before about the dangers of “homophily” – the human tendency to gravitate towards others who are like us – and I also highlighted “cultivating your network” as one of my 10 Ways to Become a Better Learner.  I was inspired to reflect more on the power of each of these concepts recently as [...]

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Who are your curators?

March 2, 2010

I had already planned to write a post about “curators” today when I noticed that Jeff De Cagna has posted about the “content challenge” over on SmartBlog. He sees “content curation” as one of the most significant innovation opportunities available to organizations. We’re in agreement on that and have spoken together about it before. Here [...]

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Points of Reference, Comfort, and the Digital Curator

March 4, 2008

Jay Cross has posted a couple of times recently on documents seminal to learning and the net, basically pointing to the list of readings he is putting together on his wiki. It’s a good list, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into deeper thinking about learning and working in a networked [...]

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