More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments

Tony Karrer has usefully kept track of a list of 16 out of the outburst of blog posts continuing the discussion around PLEs and work:

More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments : eLearning Technology

Then he wonders…

.. if people will adopt these tools and approaches over time, then as a corporation, if you want to be able to keep the content after an employee leaves, especially blog content … then shouldn’t you make sure you provide these tools now rather than having tools adopted that are outside the firewall and personally owned where you will lose the content if the employee leaves?

which kind of confirms the point being contradicted in Jay Cross’s comments

Pitting individuals against corporations is not productive. Nor is the implication that businesses are out to steal workers’ intellectual property.