The above presentation from mindjumpers provides an excellent summary of how a community manager should operate. A few days back I was witness to a debate where we were discussing if the choice of tools really mattered when selecting a knowledge platform. group of people felt that an organisation should make a far sighted decision decision about their knowledge platform and select one that offers features to scale, rate and manage information better. The other group believed that the tools didn't matter. find both arguments very compelling. You must think I'm out of my mind! MORE >>

Can modern, lightweight, yet highly effective technology provide us the edge to achieve our goals at the right pace? I am a trainer by profession. know there are war cries in the industry to just get rid of the training department completely. agree and I disagree. Jane Bozarth 's landmark quote remains at the back of my mind. Trainers won't be replaced by technology. They will be replaced by trainers who are willing to use technology.” So am I really a trainer? call myself a learning generalist - training is one of the things I do in order to create learning. Let me tell you why. MORE >>

If we use the Dreyfus model to map out our learning strategy, it quickly illuminates the different mechanisms we need to provide, so that people can participate in your learning program. The success of your Knowledge Management or online learning initiative depends on how well you can engage different people in your organization and really, how apt is your mode of delivery, to the content you're delivering. Very simply, the purpose of any online learning/ knowledge sharing implementation is to make capabilities explicit in an organization. Most new beginners tend to start here. MORE >>

OTOH I like the approach of plunging learners into a real world activity, providing 'information' on-demand and only if necessary. After a pile of slides that do nothing but provide information, the last activity people want is a quiz that rates them on how much they remember. A few days back I ordered a large meal at a restaurant. Unfortunately, the food tasted awful - really awful. My first thought was to curse the chef - not for one moment did I think of complaining about the ingredients. strange thought came to my mind. Rapid elearning is not about cutting corners with design. MORE >>

My aim was to illustrate how easy it is to create something fairly engaging with just a few minutes of work in Powerpoint, provided you have your design well thought through. So last week I tweeted an example of immersive learning scenario built entirely in Powerpoint and published using Articulate Presenter. Given that I saw the tweet travel a fair bit, I thought it might be a good idea to share some of the related ideas on this blog. Does Rapid eLearning mean Crapid eLearning? No, it doesn't have to. or "Get a budget of $100k." None of the content of this example was mine. MORE >>