Below is my keynote abstract for the C-SAP Showcase in Birmingham. SAP is the Higher Education Academy subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, and it's in it's eleventh and final year of existence. Birmingham Technology education C-SAP learning George Orwell futureThe event will take place tomorrow at the Burlington Hotel, and will include numerous papers, workshops and poster sessions from delegates. The future of learning will be. How much can we shape our own futures? But we cannot control everything. There are randomly variable events. MORE >>

This week SuccessFactors and SAP announced their integration plans. Simply stated, the combined companies plan to move all their strategic talent management investments from SAP HCM and Business ByDesign into SuccessFactors, and build Employee Central (SuccessFactors' central directory product) into its core cloud-based HRMS offering. SAP HCM is a highly integrated set of talent management systems which have been in development for 25+ years. The SAP HRMS and payroll solution has been designed to meet the needs of 50+ countries with many industry-specific modules. MORE >>

Fear saps passion. The passion-sapping fear I feel is just a tool from the Resistance toolbox, a trick of the mind meant to dissaude me from pursuing those things that are most important for me to go after. . But then Resistance sets in and saps the passion that would helps us move through to what we want. How do your fears sap your passion? This morning I'm re-reading Steven Pressfield's Do the Work. And then I read this: . You may think that you've lost your passion, or that you can't identify it, or that you have so much of it, it threatens to overwhelm you. MORE >>

SAP has spent a decade trying to create a software-as-a-service solution, primarily to attract mid-market companies. The acquisition of SuccessFactors may address that gap if SAP elects to integrate these two SaaS product sets. SAP has stoppers in many suits. Business One for small companies, All-in-One for larger mid-market companies that seek on-premise solutions, and SAP ERP for the large enterprises through which it has made its name globally. Initially they largely failed: Business ByDesign proved too little too late. The Right Size for the Right Market. MORE >>

As IDs, we're always on the lookout for case studies and examples of eLearning - with pictures! So I put together a blog post on my company's site about a recent project that I was a part of. SERIAL INNOVATOR WARNING: This project was made with Flash, news of whose demise has been greatly exaggerated. Also, Captivate 5.5 was used extensively. No HTML5 was used, abused, or hacked in the process. link]. Captivate Flash eLearning MORE >>