Musketeer has become a big hit on SlideShare, I simply had to take a break from my non-blogging vacation to blog about it and share some more learning juice. The great thing about it, is that when I conduct workshops from now on, participants will probably get learning orgasms with all the free learning juice blitzed during the sessions in a visually stimulating manner. 101 Free EduGames - Part I 101 Free EduGames - Part II 101 Free EduGames (SlideBoom version) 101 Free Learning Tools 75 Free EduGames to Spice Up Your Course! SLIDESHARE GLORY! So, should I be happy and proud? MORE >>

Here are some layouts that we created to “get your creative juices flowing&#. Great photos help create fun and engaging training. We have recently put together packs of eLearning stock photos to help you design better training. The examples are a combination of PowerPoint course styles , Cut-Out People , and eLearning stock photos. MORE >>

Brainstorm Invite ideas, and get your learners' creative juices flowing. Yes, I hear you. Preparing to teach a class is hard enough. Who has the time to add fun activities? Well, you do - given these no-frills group activities that only take minutes to build, whether you use a board, a flip chart or an interactive software like YawnBuster. Show of Hands Conducting a quick poll is a perfect icebreaker in the beginning of a class. Start with a question like 'How many of you know that.' or 'Who wants to.' and watch the hands go up. See an example here. Check out this example. Click here. MORE >>

But is it any wonder that we find our creative juices drying up! I have to begin here by saying, I've never been a fan of lists, I like things a little more 'free-form', I find lists stifling.  Lists put an artificial order on things, they say, after doing/reading this, the next 'logical' point is X.  To make matters worse, we tend to prioritise lists by placing numbers next to each point, we tell the reader, 'point 1 before point 2, before point 3.'. When you put something in a list you tend to simplify things because a list is really a series of BRIEF points.no Arrgghh! Productive? MORE >>

For example, in a Klint Finley interview called Five Principles for Improving Social Enterprise Adoption , Yakabod CEO Scott Ryser cites the importance of “political juice.”  Plenty has been written about why employees are slow to adopt enterprise collaboration tools.  Most opinions on the matter, however, don’t provide satisfying conclusions about why collaboration tools are so slow to gain traction in large organizations.  As with more traditional IT initiatives, the old “senior executive support” mantra is frequently cited as a key to successful user adoption. MORE >>