In the past few years, the following seem have been some of the major trends: Internet use, and particularly broadband (2Mb/s or above) has grown phenomenally. In the UK, in 2009, 70% of households had access to the internet. In 2008, more than 60% of people in the world owned a mobile phone. In a rapidly changing world, any individual or organisation needs to be resilient (able to have alternative ways of doing things), flexible (able to change direction quickly) and maintain good connections (to ensure that you're always up-to-date. Key trends in society. Quizzes. MORE >>

August was a little quiet in terms of traffic numbers and vacations, but there were some really great posts you may have missed during vacation.  My e-Learning Don’ts - MinuteBio , August 8, 2010 Here is a list I compiled of things I think should NOT be done when designing e-learning courses. They had attended the LearnTrends free online conference. Three Things You Should Really Know about Avatars (and their relationship to you) - Kapp Notes , August 11, 2010 An Avatar in a Virtual Immersive Environment is a rendering of a computer user as an interface technique. MORE >>

This brought me to reflect, once again, how important an open source framework is as we move more of our computing to the cloud. This social networking platform is simple to set-up and use and has been embraced by millions, including LearnTrends (+3,000) and WorkLiteracy (+900), two sites I manage. For large enterprise projects I have used Drupal as a community management platform and it works well, though it requires solid technical support. We started using Elgg for an online medical community of practice in 2004 after going through dozens of platforms. MORE >>

As part of my – sense-making, moving from tacit to explicit, sharing with others – PKM system, here’s what caught my attention via Twitter during the past week. This week, I’m going to focus more on what others found interesting, as there was a lot of traffic as a result of the LearnTrends conference. LearnTrends once again emphasized my perspective that Work is Learning and Learning is the Work. learntrends. Deb Schultz: “Organizational learning will be about connecting the dots for content instead of creating the content.&# MORE >>

Looking through the program, I’m delighted to see that many of the sessions could easily play at DevLearn and vice-versa. Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist , Center for Digital Business – MIT Sloan School of Management and Author, Enterprise 2.0. social media consumer, HBS professor, MIT research scientist, and author, McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. MORE >>