But apparently, when the workers or customers define the vision about product and company direction, it’s not our job to facilitate that exchange or provide a platform for it.  Hopefully the comments above will provide the necessary flavor and backstory. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at a combined ASTD / ISPI Social Learning workshop.  A lot of it was a rehash of some of the other presentations I have done via webinars, but live and with an active audience.  I really like having a live audience.  My other argument was a bit more brutal.  I get that.  MORE >>

Learn also has a customizable form builder, FormFlow®, which provides all sorts of intriguing options around new models for blogging, discussions, wikis, microblogging, idea sharing, and FAQ engines.  So I guess the title gives it away, right?  ; )  Today I start a new job at Learn.com as Executive Director of Product Maketing.  I realize that this may surprise some, especially given my leadership of Mzinga’s social learning strategy.  In the interest of focusing on the positive, I will only say one thing about my departure from Mzinga – it’s about talent management.  MORE >>

I’ll be forever be grateful for the opportunities that Mzinga and its predecessors have provided in developing my professional skills and my career. Are you one of those people who jumps in the pool without dipping a toe in first?  Me too.  I also like to rip off my band-aids real quick.  Suffice to say, I’m not a “take things slow” kind of guy.  Want some proof? m leaving Mzinga.  [ d r a m a t i c   p a u s e ]. Yeah, it’s still a bit surreal to me too.  I’ve had a pretty amazing run.  In year one, I helped develop dozens of hours of courseware for clients.  MORE >>

They not only provide a much needed service to learning and HR professionals in the here and now, they also point to future technologies that enables us to better control and filter the vast information flow around us. For some time now, I’ve been aware of a couple of projects that Tony Karrer has put together:  eLearning Learning and HR Tech Central.  On the surface, it may seem that these sites are just rollups of the blogs of experts within their repsective industries.  But they are so much more than that. For one thing, these sites are searchable and filterable.  MORE >>

Not surprisingly, Solvers provide answers. Other Posts in This Series. XYZ Axis of Community Modeling. Intro. few weeks back, I wrote a post about a new way to think about community through a lens of emergent, collaborative, and formal elements.  This was based on a post by Harold Jarche and Jay Cross.  In the first post, I discussed how the model could be used not only to describe and “type&# communities, but also how it could streamline community development and design.  Overview. An emergent community is one primarily designed to solve new problems or articulate new solutions.  MORE >>