Yeah your social was nice and yeah you had some cool features – but there were plenty of VLEs before you showed up on the scene – and I’m not even thinking Second Life. Wow, wasn’t that marching band fantastic? loved the lip synch of that tune. Okay, time for the 2nd half to begin, so let’s go right to the kickoff. As before, please excuse text line space funkiness – WordPress app on iPad. TOUCHDOWN. The product comes in two flavors – a simple and a more robust. focused on the more robust. Talk about a nice run to the end zone! FIRST DOWN. MORE >>

Last night I presented at the Greater Philadelphia Chapter of ASTD and ran into a bunch of old friends and made some new ones. The meeting was well attended by a large number of ASTD members, some wanted see what the hype was about, some had plans to work with clients in 3D virtual worlds and some were just curious. Greater Philadelphia ASTD members learn about 3D collaboration and learning in virtual worlds. Tony and Lia presented virtually in ProtoSphere and in Second Life. See ASTD Philadelphia Presentation Resources for slides and links to the research. MORE >>

as the Education & Document Manager and is the current President of the South Florida Chapter of ASTD.  T&D departments of the future will focus on just the things unique to their company and outlets like Second Life , Twitter , and conversations on LinkedIn will be more common. Phillips, Creative Training Techniques Handbook by Bob Pike, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, T&D Magazine produced by ASTD. Interviews ASTD Collaborative Learning corporate training elearning social media training and developmentSteve Feinstein works at U.S. MORE >>

What started as a short list of what we can learn from the winners from ASTD’s 2009 BEST Awards grew, so here’s the third of four posts. Second Life) learning, few of the winners actually broke new ground in how they’re developing or delivering their training. Tags: aLearning Strategies aLearning Trends ASTD benchmarking elearning strategy T+D Remember, these are in no particular order. No special year-end countdown here. All winners see their function with a wider lens than simply as “education&# or training. Organizer? At lower cost? MORE >>

as the Education & Document Manager and is the current President of the South Florida Chapter of ASTD.  T&D departments of the future will focus on just the things unique to their company and outlets like Second Life , Twitter , and conversations on LinkedIn will be more common. Phillips, Creative Training Techniques Handbook by Bob Pike, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, T&D Magazine produced by ASTD. Interviews ASTD Collaborative Learning corporate training elearning social media training and developmentSteve Feinstein works at U.S. MORE >>