Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Feb 5, 2012, 5:04 pm
... with the way you can use social media in learning processes. It may ... try to relate them to using social media in learning processes. The emotional ... and a memory. Relating this to social media, you could say it ... brain principle also shows that using social media is also a potential ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jan 20, 2012, 5:20 am
... voor Trainers'. The topic was: social media as learning instrument. Amazing ... up: from no engagement with social media to intensive engagement. Some ... . Only a few were using social media intensively and only one ... we did a second line up between zero use of social ... ; Online...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Oct 20, 2011, 5:16 am
The high school of my daughter organised a meeting about "internet and social media". As you might guess it was focused on the dangers.. "The potential hazards are discussed and the possibilities to take measures to enhance safety .." It was very funny to hear someone do the opposite of what I do:...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Oct 11, 2011, 3:44 am
I often have conversations about the role of social media in learning processes. Sometimes people might say: 'Ok, but twitter is not learning. How can you learn from 140 characters?! The theory about learning you embrace determine how you look at social media and its importance (or unimportance). F...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Sep 29, 2011, 4:00 am
On October 6th, we are going to work on a casebook learn and organise through social media with a group of about 12 learning professionals. Though the analysis of various cases of learning and change processes in which social media has played a role we hope to gain more insights into this relativel...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Sep 20, 2011, 2:56 pm
I have been rethinking my focus. I started working within the framework of knowledge management and communities of practice. But knowledge management in the Netherlands is still associated with databasebuilders. And communities are hijacked by the marketeers for client communities... The core of my ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Sep 9, 2011, 4:21 am
After the holidays I have been bumping into the same issue with different clients: "Which platform you choose for a online part of a learning trajectory as trainer/facilitator?" It is already clear that you want to combine online learning with face-to-face meetings, you need a private online platf...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Aug 23, 2011, 9:59 am
I was interviewed for Vice Versa and asked for input. It was a double interview together with Eric Smaling working for the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. An interesting combination as he is well grounded in the science world as professor. I will blog what I remember as main points and...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Aug 23, 2011, 9:11 am
Edge is asking an annual question. In 2010 the question was: how is internet changing the way your think? This question was presented to 151 people and they answered this question in 2-3 pages. Amazing to see how different the 151 answers are! It was a great read during the holidays, very ins...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Aug 11, 2011, 3:34 am
Next monday I will have an interview with a journalist of a magazine about international development cooperation (Vice Versa). The topic of the interview is knowledge sharing. I'm trying to put some of my ideas together and would really like your input as the topic seems so vast: what are the...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jul 4, 2011, 4:10 am
Here's an interview with Andrew McAfee from MIT (source McKinseyquarterly), talking about organisational change, related to improving knowledge flows with social media. He reaffirmes that it works to start with thinking about the challenge you want to address and from there work towards the tools an...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jun 21, 2011, 10:06 am
Often I get the question: do people know when you unfollow them? And I used to reassure them that you only get a notification from Twitter when people start following you, not when they unfollow you. But now there is a whole bunch of twitter tools; I started testing some Twitter unfollowers tracking...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jun 15, 2011, 5:11 am
I had the pleasure to attend a presentation by Julie Ferguson. Julie is doing research for the university of Amsterdam (VU) into (micro-)blogging as part of her PdD research about knowledge and power in the development sector. The research has not yet been published. This research had the goal to ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 31, 2011, 9:22 am
I went looking for a learning style test for an online course. I thought a learning style test was a nice ramp up for an exercise where people had to blog about their own facilitator style - from the idea that it is good to know your own preferences and biases as a trainer/facilitator. Hoping this a...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 26, 2011, 9:08 am
I'm intrigued by the power of social media to network. It brings us new ways of communicating and knowing what's going on. As someone who believes in the power of learning from your peer groups (within communities of practice) I see social media offering new ways of connecting with others leading to...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 24, 2011, 6:05 am
I work a lot supporting global networks and online communities of people around the world. I'm always careful with tools that take up a lot of bandwidth (though guilty of using Ning a lot..). Currently I'm also working with a Dutch group of trainers and coaches and now I can use a wider variety of t...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 17, 2011, 8:02 am
I'm currently using Webex for webinars, unfortunately we discovered (quite late!) that there is a maximum of 7 active microphones, and the first time we had serious problems. Now we found out that we can share the microphones, after people raise their (virtual) hands. Sounds stupid and I feel stupid...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 11, 2011, 9:32 am
This is a blogpost written for a half-day workshop for facilitators with Sibrenne Wagenaar. We thought of starting with a blogpost because it helps us think about the topic of the workshop, it is a light way of starting online, and it gives the chance for others to look over our shoulders (and give ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - May 9, 2011, 5:40 am
Does a learning community or community of practice need roles to function well? Should you officially assign these roles to people or is it best if people spontaneously fullfil certain roles? What about the self-organising power of communities? On the 29th of March we did a session (we = Sibrenne Wa...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Apr 19, 2011, 4:33 am
Last week we had the book presentation of En nu online (unfortunately for some written in Dutch). A bit late, in February we had to cancel it because of the operation of Sibrenne 's son, but it felt good to celebrate the accomplishment. We had a twitter backchannel (#ennuonline) where unexpectedly ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Apr 8, 2011, 5:40 am
This quote is from Clay Shirky. A wonderful way of looking at the often mentioned problem of 'information overload'. If I say I'm reading and following 100 blogs people are really shocked and I quickly add that they don't have to. Clay Shirky is turning it around: the problem is not information ove...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Mar 31, 2011, 8:48 am
We had quite some confusion this week going on about the concept of 'networked learning' during an interesting day with learning professionals. For some this is really about networking online through social media and learning a lot by connecting with other professionals online. For others this is ab...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Mar 15, 2011, 5:32 am
I read 'the New Social Learning' by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. There was actually less new information than I had hoped for, I missed a deeper layer of understanding how social media changes learning processes. How do social media change individual, team and organisational learning processes? A...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Feb 22, 2011, 11:05 am
I follow some organisations and some individuals on Twitter (I follow northern NGOs like @oxfamnovib, and some southern NGOs like @alamad_NGO). Generally, I find organisations' slightly boring, slower and less engaging on Twitter than individuals, but keep on following them because they do have some...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Feb 17, 2011, 8:49 am
(cartoon via Rob Speekenbrink) I get involved in lots of discussions whether Twitter- is learning (or nonsense). People are sceptical on what you can learn through 140 characters. Often I answer that you definitely learn through twittering because you can link through to blogposts, articles etc. Bas...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Feb 7, 2011, 10:49 am
This is a column Sibrenne Wagenaar and I have written for the management site. I thought it might be worthwhile to translate it. The translation is mine (with a start by Google translate). We wrote this for the change facilitators working in and with organisations on change. Many change processes fa...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Feb 2, 2011, 10:27 am
It is estimated that professionals learning informally for 80% or even 94%. Personally I'm convinced of this principle though semi-formal events or workshops can play a crucial role in directing learning. As Harry Vos states in his dutch blog "more formal or workshop learning supports informal learn...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jan 24, 2011, 10:16 am
Over the past half year I facilitated a social media capacity building trajectory for a group of 14 development organisations (and 2 networks) in countries like Vietnam, Mali, Bolivia etc., together with Josien Kapma and Sibrenne Wagenaar. I've already blogged about our online start. It was great to...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jan 11, 2011, 10:15 am
I've noticed my post about 10 online icebreakers is very popular. It gets often linked from online courses too. Therefore I thought it would be nice to add some more icebreakers. All those heavy reflections.. Let's get very practical. Here we go: The A, B, C of the group Though A, B, Cs at weddings ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jan 4, 2011, 7:35 am
I was very impressed by Here come's everybody by Clay Shirky and happy to read his second book Cognitive Surplus during the Christmas holidays. I definitely enjoyed reading it, because Shirky is very good in understanding social change as a result of technological changes and explaining it with bril...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Dec 30, 2010, 8:00 am

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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Dec 16, 2010, 11:14 am
Some time ago I was asked to facilitate a session on this topic. I didn't have time to blog it, but since I received a nice report (by CDI in Wageningen) so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to blog it and share the prezi I used. .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-alig...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Dec 9, 2010, 8:00 am
I attended the HIVOS 'thinkaton' about digital natives with a cause and activism2.0. Everybody in the room already believed in the power of a click! But we need the stories. There were two very inspiring stories. The first by Juliana Rotich, the Program Director of Ushahidi (Kenya). Ushahidi is a we...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Dec 8, 2010, 8:50 am
I have a relaxed week- wonderful for catching up with articles and blogs. I read "organizing for fluidity" which had been on my pile for sometime. And I'm reading 'organisational dynamics' by Thijs Homan- in dutch. Both talk about change dynamics in organisations. Let me start by a story from Kenya ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Dec 7, 2010, 6:17 am
My first book ever is out, written with Sibrenne Wagenaar (see picture). I even had a dream last night of a smooth delivery (of a baby). Probably because the publisher told us the book was born on November 29th at 15.00 pm. and we continued using this analogy. If you speak Dutch and you are interest...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 29, 2010, 10:28 am
I met Niel van Meeuwen some time ago when we talked about using social media in learning trajectories. He already mentioned his talk in Lissabon during the Eapril conference. His presentation was last Friday and he experimented with a Twitter backchannel. Unfortunately because people there might not...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 26, 2010, 2:58 am
Old readers of this blog know that by the end of November/beginning of December I have to post something about Sinterklaas... since I'm a huge fan of Sinterklaas (see here, here and here for instance). Unfortunately both daughters are now too old to 'believe in Sinterklaas' (Dutch expression: 'in Si...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 22, 2010, 10:49 am
I've made my own slidecast (my third actually!). What is a slidecast? It is a powerpoint presentation with a voice explaining the slides. On the one hand it may take more take to listen to it, on the other hand, it gives so much more context to the slides. It is really not difficult to make one but ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 16, 2010, 4:17 pm
I'm developing a 3 months course for trainers and coaches to become bilangual in the sense that they may facilitate online and face-to-face; we call it 'E-vaardig trainen and coachen'. Hence I was thrilled to find Jane Bozarth's book: Social media for Trainers. I'm following a lot of social media bu...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 5, 2010, 5:36 am
When you use social media, it may seem very chaotic and dispersed. You have a blog and a website. But you also have a twitter account and you have set up a facebook page. Maybe you have thematic wikis too. How do all these different media link together and complement each other? How do you prevent t...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Nov 4, 2010, 4:25 am
Here's a Dutch movie about Mister Strubbe. He is an elder person and is still using his computer with wordperfect 5.1. He is very happy with it, and says 'this computer probably leaves this house after my death'. At the same time he is very happy with his ipad, to read the news. Whenever there is a ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Oct 26, 2010, 9:03 am
Yesterday Sibrenne Wagenaar and I finished an evaluation process of a knowledge sharing/linking and learning programme. One of the questions was what methods worked best for knowledge sharing. We had only one hour and didn't want to do a presentation (we had presented our rough findings earlier on)....
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Oct 20, 2010, 8:14 am
I read the book Switch some time ago. Change management is definitely one of my favorite fields! Even though I am now not using the field as consciously as when I was guiding organisational change trajectories, I feel when I work on introducing social media I may apply it too and could improve. But ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Oct 12, 2010, 3:28 pm
I'm getting so busy that blogging gets harder (if I want to have some off computer time too!). I guess the good thing is that I can imagine it is the last thing on your list in a hectic job. Since I blogged in Dutch about our most recent trajectory about social media that started online (on the NVO2...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Sep 29, 2010, 11:02 am
Flipchart- the most important tool for trainers? photo by hockadilly I'm a big fan of Clay Shirky's book Here Come's Everybody . I even had two copies, because I have won a copy, but I organised a photo search competition in the social media training of this week. This was fun by the way, I had ...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Aug 30, 2010, 6:29 am
Last week I gave two workshops 'online professionlisation' for the learninglane, a yearly three days event in the Netherlands. (together with Josien who replaced Sibrenne). It was a good opportunity to test a new theory. We have done a lot of webwork workshops where we teach professionals social med...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jul 12, 2010, 9:29 am
I started my first social reporting experiences with Euforic, back in 2007 through a blog, trying to cover an event online through social media. With a team of reporters we covered the sessions and captured participants and presenters' stories through videos. It was an awful lot of work and I kept w...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jun 21, 2010, 5:02 am
Image by Velo Steve via Flickr Netsquared's question this month is: Tactics for using online tools for internal communication. Though the deadline has passed, I am now typing hard to make sure I can make a contribution. My take is that there are so many tools, for lists of tools see for instance the...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jun 14, 2010, 3:04 pm
Last year we've experimented with various social media to improve a sharing event for about 100 participants (for more details see my older blogpost). This is not too difficult when all your participants are social media adepts, you announce your hashtags and off they go. However, in this case the m...
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Joitske H. posted an article on Lasagna and chips - unexpected combinations for creativity and innovation - Jun 10, 2010, 8:40 am
Image via Wikipedia One time I got a call whether I know what to look for when you buy a laptop. Or people ask if I know how you can make Outlook address list. Or what a great mobile provider is in the Netherlands. Things I do not know but apparently I have given them the impression that I might k...
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