Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago. In other words, the stocks of public training companies would be down as compared to the market as a whole. Instead, it appears that the stock market considers these companies to be okay bets. But when I drilled down on one company, Learning Tree , it's quarterly revenue from last year is down from $47M to $30.5M Training is a known product. This is a very strange time. MORE >>

" In addition, see the related McKinsey Quarterly article that provides insights into this data, "How Companies Are Benefiting From Web 2.0: " LearnTrends Event and Innovation Awards Corporate Learning Trends 2009 is a free, online, non-profit conference on innovation in corporate learning. For more information, visit the LearnTrends social networking site.    In conjunction with this online conference ,the group is also holding a LearnTrends 2009 Innovation Awards competition. See also volumes one , two ,  three , four , and five ). MORE >>

LearnTrends and other efforts have been well received by the community but not without constructive feedback.  Jay posts his own thoughts about April's LearnTrends event here.  I think we can learn a lot from productivity gurus, and "effective meetings" advocates by continuing to ask "why are we here?" of conversari “to live with, keep company with,” lit. To live with, keep company with" is a very human description of something more than just a casual one-off conversation.  There is an ongoing discussion around formal v. 1340, from O.Fr. conversation, from L. MORE >>

Project timelines Wikis Project/Product Documentation, Co-Authoring learning Retrospectives, Negotiating Requirements/Stories, “Handovers” across time zones Workstreams - Microblogging Ambient Awareness - Who knows what? Take a look at some of the webinars from the virtual, free LearnTrends conference last year , if you don't believe me. The fact that people will be able to work from their homes means that companies can spend less money on facilities and channel saved funds towards better pay and new business -- good news for all of us! How much of Agile is valid today? MORE >>

Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? Is Here: Attitudes Meet Algorithms in Sentiment Analysis - Fast Company , September 18, 2009. Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Process, and Even the Product , September 13, 2009. LearnTrends 2009 , September 23, 2009. Company (1368). Top 50 Real-Time Web Companies , September 28, 2009. Your Employees Have No Clue What Your Company Does , September 3, 2009. Shooting for the Moon: How Universities Can Turn Innovation into Companies , September 30, 2009. Featured Sources. MORE >>