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DevLearn 09: the fire is back

December 14, 2009

Social learning is putting the fire back into the learning profession that’s been missing since the dot-com bust.

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Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives

December 13, 2009

Web 2.0 and Change Present Challenges to Many Learning Executives
By Rex Davenport
Chief learning officers (CLO s) are dealing with organizations the same way they did 25 years ago—focusing on full-time employees. But businesses are becoming networks. CLO s are going to need to understand that and do something about it.
Jay Cross is a champion of [...]

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Good bye, HP

December 12, 2009

I’ve bought at least a couple of dozen HP printers in the course of the last twenty years, but I will never buy another.
The OfficeJet J4500 is a poorly-designed, awful Chinese piece of garbage. David Packard and Bill Hewlett must be rolling in their graves.
Guess what this is:

Answer: It was my only copy of an [...]

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Inside Learning Technologies

November 17, 2009

You may be interested in the first two articles in the latest issue of Inside Learning Technologies.
The first story, Speaking the Language of Business, is mine. Jane Hart wrote the second story, How to Create a Social Learning Environment.
You say you haven’t heard of Inside Learning Technologies? That’s because it’s printed in the UK, yank. [...]

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Social Learning Examples

November 15, 2009

At DevLearn, many people lamented the difficulty of explaining the benefits of social media to their managers and peers. We talked about building a repository of web 2.0 learning applications. It turns out that my pal Jane Hart has already done it for us!
Jane mined the submissions of her delightful tools database and came up [...]

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Search me

November 15, 2009

Similar Site Search reads one site’s tags and proceeds to find sites like it.
Of course, I could always do this.

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Online message board: free, very cool

November 14, 2009

For DevLearn, Mark Oehlert gathered thoughts on an electronic message board. This is better than MindMapping for collecting thoughts at random, for you’re not forced to think in terms of hierarchies. It’s also easier for visitors who have but one simple idea they want to express.
Pindex is one of those things that’s easier to learn [...]

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Rypple

November 8, 2009

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Rypple
Rypple is a web-based app that makes it easy to gather anonymous feedback quickly.
I signed up (free), input the names of five friends, and selected five questions to ask. Rypple sends out a question a week. Typical interchange:
You asked: What would make my presentation decks clearer?
Feedback from friends:

make your graphics larger, [...]

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Podcast on Meta-Learning with Clark & Jay

October 27, 2009

Twenty minute prequel to Clark Quinn’s and my workshop on meta-learning the day before DevLearn in San Jose.
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If you’re new to informal learning…

October 24, 2009

What is informal learning and why should you care?
Seven and a half minutes of a workshop on informal learning at National Australia Bank last year.
If you’re an old hand, you already know this. If you’re new to the world of learning, you might just learn something.

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