Thanks to @arossett. For pointing to this wonderful and scary video. And here is another along the same track, equally as scary because this one also sums up many presentations and educational sessions I’ve attended. presentations MORE >>

Tweet I see three major principles for  working smarter in networked organizations : Transparency. Narration of Work. Distribution of Power. spoke about the distribution of power in my last post on the democratization of the workplace. The narration of one’s work is an essential practice that enables this. Hans Hans de Zwart discusses a narrating-your-work experiment that had a 17 member team use Yammer to share daily experiences with colleagues. He talks about the barriers to narration as well as the perceived benefits of this two-month experiment. Communities NetworkedLearning Work MORE >>

I’m always asked what skills a rapid elearning designer should have. One of the most important skills is basic image editing. You don’t need to be a professional graphics designer. However, you should be able to do some basic editing. Because of this, an image editing application should be in your tool chest. Today we’ll look at five free desktop applications that you can use for basic image editing. But before we explore the free tools, a good budget-friendly option is Photoshop Elements. It’s relatively inexpensive and should be able to do what most people need for elearning. Picasa. Tidbits. MORE >>

[ UPDATE - Just wanted to give credit to the Social Learning Community on Yammer for inspiring this blog post. think this topic is important to the eLearning community as a whole and so I'm happy to extend the conversation to the readers of this blog.] As a member of the eLearning/learning/training/education community it feels like the alphabet soup of terms has become muddled again. suppose all industries go through this to some degree, and while it's mildly frustrating, going through the exercise can reveal some insights and help us focus our work. So let's take a look at what happened. MORE >>

During a meeting at the Dell Storage Forum in London Hans De Leenheer , one our invited bloggers, told me something to this effect: You are Miss Social Media. You have to make it so we are able to keep connecting. You have to make it so we can grow this community. That is your job! My first reaction was – hey wait I can’t single-handedly build a vibrant community. may be able to architect an environment where people can connect. may be able to find influencers who want to connect and create a community, and I may be able to create a space online where that can happen. MORE >>