Through the course of that meeting, a couple of us bantered pretty animatedly with occasional off-cuff references to "long tail." At one point I asked the person sitting next to me if she knew what we meant by "long tail." Many people hear "long tail" and get the gist at some subconscious level that it's about "a way" to reach a lot of people by using the internet. say that because when I poke and prod a little more, I get the sense that some of us understand it to mean that you can sell large volumes of things by leveraging long tail. MORE >>

So here are some of the upcoming gigs and some links: Next week on Tues, September 22nd at 1:00 pm, Ray and I are going to be doing a webinar on the Learning Long Tail.  So hey look at this – a new blog post!  Crazy I know.  For those of you that have been waiting, my apologies.  I totally underestimated the effort of onboarding at a fast moving company like Learn.com.  Hoo ra!  Then just a few weeks from now, I’ll be doing a webinar with Claire Schooley of Forrester, then another with Bersin & Associates.  Crazy right?  Needless to say, I am pretty damn busy. MORE >>

One section, for example (section 1-6 from the text) touched briefly on the concept of the "Long Tail." "  Of course, for a full treatment of Long Tail theory, I'd recommend Chris Anderson's excellent book,  The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. A couple of weeks ago I announced our next video book project  for real estate professionals.  It's still on track for delivery in December 2009.  So I occasionally find myself explaining a bit. Got friends? MORE >>

This is not some relativistic world where training is fine as long as the manager says it's good (what David Wilson of Elearnity terms the 'conspiracy of convenience'). No, there are particular types of measure that are of value to stakeholders, and as long as the learning function can show its effect on these, and be seen to be operating effectively, then it is doing its job. Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape - eLearning Technology. Long tail learning is effectively infinite. February 25, 2008. What's the Value of Learning? Donald Taylor. MORE >>

In this last post of my little three-part series explaining the "long tail" concept, I'm looping a bit back to my hypothesis in the first of the series. That is, some of us hear someone obliquely reference "long tail" and get the gist that it's a way to reach a lot of people using the internet. And while there's truth to that, that thought alone risks biting on the idea that long tail is all about leveraging a phenomenon to sell large volumes of things. So goes the long tail theory. That's where I differ. MORE >>