You have a client list, so type in the company name on the People search and filter. What is SAAS and why is hosted better than having it on your own servers.  Plus, what does being in the cloud actually mean? SAAS: Software as a Service. The bottom line without getting technical or overly detailed, the solution is hosted on your vendor’s servers and not hosted on your internal servers. Hosting does offer very tight and safe security, and access is via the internet, even if you go through your VPN (Virtual Private Network). Hosted Server Question to Ask. At another location?  MORE >>

He therefore sees this as a key starting point; it's an aggregated feed of content that he hopes will appeal to people who don't subscribe to individual blogs. He will start creating these once he sees the kinds of thing people search for. Again, if people want to make suggestions on search terms for the channels, be is very keen to receive them. . Barry Sampson told me about this elearning news aggregator that he put together when revamping the e-Learning Network's website. I've already subscribed to the aggregated feed.  Want to take a look? go here. MORE >>

Don't let your personal tendencies skew perspective - People want quick content, easily accessible, entertaining + intuitive. Remember - only 1 of 3 people have smart phones, but growing. LOTS more people using SMS than internet to communicate (global) - Travel apps - SMS, cached map, live GPS Rise of Mobile computing - Smartphone ownership growing very quickly. iPhone nemesis - the network, not the OK What are people doing on smartphones - Most make phone calls. Texting 2nd most common activity - 1/3 people have actually used an ap that they download. iel11 MORE >>

Quick update (1/5/2008) - I feel much better now - 3 people have searched and found me through the highly relevant search - incredibly cool elearning guy. So the comment that I may be messing with search results and making myself even more lame seems to be turning out correct. While I had dismissed it, I'm now no longer #1 for the search - top ten lamest people - even though I was yesterday before Google spidered this page. But at least I'm not top ten lamest people! People search in order to find information. Try it yourself. MORE >>

Two recent posts got my attention -- Tony Karrer's Reduce Searching Start Talking and Harold Jarche's Effective knowledge sharing. First, Allen Tough (1999), a Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto and a thought leader on informal learning, wrote that within each informal learning episode (where the primary motivation is to gain and retain certain knowledge and skills on a task), the average learner interacts with an average of 10 people. The second reason why informal learning is less efficient is that searches often end in failure. So which chart do we believe? MORE >>