Dialogue is one of the most powerful, and abundant sources of learning available to us as humans (especially professionals). Technology, in particular social media, helps us get more connected, and should enable us to have better learning dialogue. But it rarely does. Social media constrains dialogue, limited by the text medium, short length, and relative anonymity behind a keyboard. (And trolls).

Learning focused dialogue on social media, especially when people disagree, too easily disintegrates into defensiveness, confusion, and negativity.

So let's take online dialogue offline