It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is. ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. But for now, let me just focus on my Best of 2009. To create this list, I’m using eLearning Learning as described in Using Special Parameters to Create Year End Post for details on how I’ve come up with this list. m including posts from December 2008. Business of Learning Trends in Learning Side Note – Read Counts I also looked at the top posts according to read counts. MORE >>

This is why I talk about the importance of new skills for Leveraging Networks , Network Feedback , F inding Expertise , Using Social Media to Find Answers to Questions , Learning through Conversation. That said, there are a quite a lot of people who come to my blog and who don't really know me, they don't have a personal relationship, we've not exchanges around 100 Conversations yet, And it's a bit depressing to realize that you rank behind direct mail and online classifieds in terms of trust. Or basically they show that there's no trust for blogs. So a couple of thoughts. MORE >>

Engage me in my 100 Conversation Topics. Someone added a reason not to blog to my Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog : Because you think no one will read it.how can people find it? realized that in all my posts talking about blogging and Pushing People to Blog as a learning tool, I had never specifically blogged about how you find readers - or more appropriately - what should you do so that potential readers can find you. So here are a few specific suggestions to make sure that readers can find you: Subscribe to bloggers and get to know what they write about. MORE >>

One of Tony Karrer’s 100 conversation topics is Ways that my children are learning that is significantly different from how I learn. When Catriona was very little, she found comfort in a little bag of sweets. She rarely ate them, but would find pleasure in knowing they were there. She'd pick one from the bag, suck on it for a few seconds, then replace it, in the knowledge that she liked that sweet and could return to it for a suck later on. She did that with all her sweets, discarding the ones she didn’t like. This posts is about Tony’s topic number 25. It'll go bang! MORE >>

Ingrid O'Sullivan has a new blog and is the first person to take me up on my post 100 Conversation Topics which asks people to start a conversation with me and get aggregated into 100 conversations. I'm hoping as I gain more experience, have more "conversations" and learn from the likes of Tony, this will no longer be my hardest ongoing task - but for now dear readers please read with patience. Take a look at what Janet Clarey had to say after her first 100 days - Debriefing myself.a Your goal should be to have interesting conversations. MORE >>