And as part of this, I’ve been taking advantage of: 2009 Predictions How Did I Do? 2009 Top Posts and Topics , Top 125 Workplace eLearning Posts of 2009 and just running through my blog posts for the year. 2009 has continued that effort. And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. However, during 2009, I had a bit of an aha moment. MORE >>

Now in it’s sixth year, the Edublog Awards “seek to recognize excellence in the use of blogs and social media to facilitate education.&#. Here are my nominations, by category, for the 2009 Edublog Awards : Best individual blog: elearnspace (George Siemens). 1: The Great Keynote Meltdown of 2009 and #2 Spectacle at Web 2.0 lrnchat is “a place for people interested in the topic of learning who use the social messaging service Twitter to learn from one another and discuss how to help other people learn.&# La la. can’t hear you.). Shoot. MORE >>

These are my notes from the Learn Trends: Networked and Social Learning online mini-conference. Measurement & ROI for Social & Network Learning. How are you measuring social learning? Social & network learning really falls into the OTJ learning, not formal. In chat, vivien disagreed: “I don’t agree that social learning is always downstream of training intervention&#. But maybe we can’t just shoehorn social learning into one part of the chart. This can be the social network. This is post 2 of 3. Support learning. MORE >>

JANUARY 2009. Learning Consultant, and how I was convinced that social learning approaches. title from E-Learning Consultant to Social Media & Learning Consultant. . Update: In fact I have now gone a step further and now call myself a Social. FEBRUARY 2009. Guide to Social Learning. began to convert my Guide to E-Learning into the Guide to Social Learning. . MARCH 2009. As my social learning consultant work increased, and in particular I began to help more and more organisations (business and education) implement a social. MORE >>

Hmmm… One last thought … I recently presented to a group of professional speakers about the use of social media. However, because of the dramatically different characteristics of Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences and because of the narrowing gap between face-to-face and online presentations – we will see a shift towards more online conferences such as LearnTrends 2009. Are people noticing this? It seems that face-to-face and online presenting are becoming more similar. See Better Conferences. for how great the audience input can be). and paying attention. MORE >>