Comments on: Bloggers Business School (XBS 2) http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5371 Grant Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:06:29 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5371 Gina, thanks for the details. I like the idea of just in time intelligence that gets tested in practice straight away. Good model. Keep us posted. Best, Grant Russell, let's!, the thing is funding to get things up and running, I am working on a couple of angles. Make that angels. I will keep you posted. Best, Grant Gina, thanks for the details. I like the idea of just in time intelligence that gets tested in practice straight away. Good model. Keep us posted. Best, Grant

Russell, let’s!, the thing is funding to get things up and running, I am working on a couple of angles. Make that angels. I will keep you posted. Best, Grant

]]> By: russell http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5370 russell Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:55:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5370 Grant, thanks very much for the kind words. The parallel with Cambridge tutorials hadn't really occurred to me, and it's alarming because I absolutely hated tutorials. Completely dreaded them. So given that blogs are very good ways to go from idea to incarnation - why don't we start something? Grant,

thanks very much for the kind words. The parallel with Cambridge tutorials hadn’t really occurred to me, and it’s alarming because I absolutely hated tutorials. Completely dreaded them.

So given that blogs are very good ways to go from idea to incarnation – why don’t we start something?

]]> By: Ginna http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5369 Ginna Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:56:48 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5369 Grant, I was interested in going to into business for myself, so I looked at a number of MBA programs geared toward entrepreneurs. Ultimately, I decided I couldn't wait, and launched my business this year. I guess I know I'm extracting value by how I change my business practices. I knew nothing about marketing or sales when I started, but the books and group discussions are really helping me. I've been changing what I do to market myself with every book on the list, even the ones which have nothing to do with marketing. I guess that's almost like saying it out loud! It also helps that my ability to feed myself depends on me learning these lessons quickly... Grant, I was interested in going to into business for myself, so I looked at a number of MBA programs geared toward entrepreneurs. Ultimately, I decided I couldn’t wait, and launched my business this year.

I guess I know I’m extracting value by how I change my business practices. I knew nothing about marketing or sales when I started, but the books and group discussions are really helping me. I’ve been changing what I do to market myself with every book on the list, even the ones which have nothing to do with marketing.

I guess that’s almost like saying it out loud!

It also helps that my ability to feed myself depends on me learning these lessons quickly…

]]> By: Ginna http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5368 Ginna Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:13:45 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5368 Ginna, thanks, yes, I guess I still like the ideas of students working together in a class and out. They will be entertaining a networked economy. BSchools should be one of the places you learn to make the network work. That's interesting that you are working through the readings. How do you know you have extracted all the value? How do you "surface" what you've learned. I often don't discover what I've learned until I have tried to say it out loud. (Poor Pam!) Thanks, Grant Ginna, thanks, yes, I guess I still like the ideas of students working together in a class and out. They will be entertaining a networked economy. BSchools should be one of the places you learn to make the network work. That’s interesting that you are working through the readings. How do you know you have extracted all the value? How do you “surface” what you’ve learned. I often don’t discover what I’ve learned until I have tried to say it out loud. (Poor Pam!) Thanks, Grant

]]> By: Ginna http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5367 Ginna Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:41:03 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5367 Grant, I wonder if you've looked at the Personal MBA? (http://www.personalmba.com/) It was lauched by a fellow doubting the value vs. expense of traditional business schools. The program consists of a reading list, and then discussion groups. No charge, and you get out of it what you put into it. It seems to be that it's almost the BBS you're looking for (although without any "classes" at all). I've been working through the reading list for a few months now, and I'm not regretting my decision to forgo a traditional MBA at all. Grant, I wonder if you’ve looked at the Personal MBA?
(http://www.personalmba.com/)

It was lauched by a fellow doubting the value vs. expense of traditional business schools. The program consists of a reading list, and then discussion groups. No charge, and you get out of it what you put into it.

It seems to be that it’s almost the BBS you’re looking for (although without any “classes” at all).

I’ve been working through the reading list for a few months now, and I’m not regretting my decision to forgo a traditional MBA at all.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5366 Grant Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:42:01 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5366 Peter, thanks for the link, I know there are several on-line b-schools. So far as I know, none of them is built around blogging and bloggers. And that's the question, is there a special opportunity here. It's as if blogging is a whirlwind of discovery, invention, analysis, proposing, recanting, reforming, variously undetaken on an individual, collective, interactive basis. Could a b school be build around, tapped into, somehow threaded through the whirlwind? We don't fully understand what blogging is and does a social/intellectual/network activity, so it's hard to know whether and how it can serve as a platform (maybe that's the metaphor) for a b-school, and of course we dont quite know what a bschool needs to be, so there are lots of imponderables. Thanks, Grant Ramon, sorry about the 404, it's something to do with TypePad. It was down most of yesterday and there are still problems in the system, apparently. Sorry! Grant Peter, thanks for the link, I know there are several on-line b-schools. So far as I know, none of them is built around blogging and bloggers. And that’s the question, is there a special opportunity here. It’s as if blogging is a whirlwind of discovery, invention, analysis, proposing, recanting, reforming, variously undetaken on an individual, collective, interactive basis. Could a b school be build around, tapped into, somehow threaded through the whirlwind? We don’t fully understand what blogging is and does a social/intellectual/network activity, so it’s hard to know whether and how it can serve as a platform (maybe that’s the metaphor) for a b-school, and of course we dont quite know what a bschool needs to be, so there are lots of imponderables. Thanks, Grant

Ramon, sorry about the 404, it’s something to do with TypePad. It was down most of yesterday and there are still problems in the system, apparently. Sorry! Grant

]]> By: Ramon Sangüesa http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5365 Ramon Sangüesa Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:53:15 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5365 Excellent idea! By the way, when clicking on the link to your previous post on Bloggers Business School I get a "404 Not Found" error. Can you fix that? Thank you! Excellent idea! By the way, when clicking on the link to your previous post on Bloggers Business School I get a “404 Not Found” error. Can you fix that? Thank you!

]]> By: Peter http://cultureby.com/2005/12/bloggers_busine.html/comment-page-1#comment-5364 Peter Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:57:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=800#comment-5364 My colleagues down the hall here in the University of Liverpool, UK, have been running a successful on-line MSc programme in IT for about 5 years, and the University is now running an online MBA the same way. Students and the professors are from around the world, and never meet physically (unless, as sometimes happens, several students from the same location or company enrol together). The programmes are completely online with the exception of the final graduation ceremonies. More details here: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/teaching/ohecampus/onlinedegree.html I'm reporting this to say that your model can work, and work well. My colleagues down the hall here in the University of Liverpool, UK, have been running a successful on-line MSc programme in IT for about 5 years, and the University is now running an online MBA the same way. Students and the professors are from around the world, and never meet physically (unless, as sometimes happens, several students from the same location or company enrol together). The programmes are completely online with the exception of the final graduation ceremonies. More details here:

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/teaching/ohecampus/onlinedegree.html

I’m reporting this to say that your model can work, and work well.

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