Professional Development, Learning Networks and You. The Culture of Availability. I’m some 36,000 feet over…what out the window I can only guess is southern France and the Mediterranean Sea….I’ve been working on my presentations for the ECIS Admin Conference that I’m headed to in Portugal.
Trying to find some inspiration and motivation for my presentations I’ve been watching some TED videos that I have on my iPhone and came across this 3 minute gem. This is the first time I’ve heard this phrase of a “Culture of Availability” and as soon as I heard it, it made the hairs on my neck stand up. I like it when I’m hit with things that until that point I really hadn’t given a lot of thought to. It’s a good little video and as I think about this new culture that we’re in I can’t help but think of how we want to be, and feel the need to be, available to people. And more importantly how we feel that others should be available to us when we need them. Did You Know 4.0. 2015, the web is dead. "The Future of Learning" Manifesto. UPDATE: Thanks to Hugh of Gaping Void [who did blog my draft, BTW] and a # of folks who I greatly respect (some friends and many I have never met) passing this 'manifesto' along to others in their networks, I want to say thank you.
Additionally, I want to emphasize that this post is in no way meant to be complete resolution on an level. One could certainly accuse it of being a tad 'preachy' at times, but that's probably a result of the excessive coffee that fueled the burst of morning typing. Same with the mix of voices/points of view that would drive your high school English teacher a bit crazy. Second draft quarterbacking will definitely be an advantage to all (he smiles). At best, it's a quest.