Lotus or MS Exchange? 3. Does The iPad is here. After all the hype, which it didn’t quite live up to, there was a lot of commentary web-wide on whether it’s suitable for elearning, or a specific type of learning. Here at Upside our camp is divided, there are iPad lovers and there are iPad baiters.

Of course, if you already utilize platforms such as Confluence , Jive , SharePoint , IBM Lotus , Salesforce.com  amongst others, there are built-in micro-blogging or status update features. Inside the organization, a dilemma now exists and is rapidly taking shape. Employees want to connect with one another.

Rather than viewing learning as an individual act, when we look at the world around us what we see is that learning most typically happens in engagements between people. This is true for a toddler learning to speak, to eat at the table, to dress herself -- as a matter of fact, once we think about it, it is true for most of what we know, be that how to drive a car, write a report, give a presentation, or run Lotus Notes. FROM TRAINING TO LEARNING IN THE NEW ECONOMY [1] Brigitte Jordan, Ph.D. Consulting Corporate Anthropologist email: jordan@akamail.com phone: 650 747-0155; fax: 650 747-0196 web site: www.lifescapes.org 1.