I put up a couple of screencasts that show how to use LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers. Free Virtual Conference => Discussions We held our second annual Learn Trends conference. This lines up with what I predicted in 2008. I'm starting to think that the way to go is to have frequent, more targeted online, virtual discussions on particular topics. world. MORE

Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 11AM – 12PM PT: Building an Effective Coaching Culture Within Your Organization (Free for ATD members) Awareness of the power of coaching has increased significantly in recent years, as demonstrated by world-class surgeon and writer Atul Gawande’s recent TED Talk, “Want to Get Great at Something? Join Sharlyn Lauby, CPLP, for a discussion on the five practical tips to use when developing a management onboarding program that will set new managers up for success. MORE

After playing with it for an hour or so, I remember thinking that this would change the world. Silly me; I thought I would bring up a blank page on my computer, write and format something, click a button, and be up and running. Even with the advent of user-friendly HTML editors, you still required some IT support and guidance to get something up on a web site that worked and looked half-decent. MORE

Virtual Worlds/Reality - Second Life. Media Sharing (Video, Audio, Application) - ( Video – YouTube, Audio- Last.fm , Application – P2P). Open Source/Mashups - APis, open source – while open source and APIs are not social media, they will enable multi-faceted social media features and capabilities. Actually, in some circles, mashups are considered a form of social media. Social media types with examples. MORE

I was planning on writing about emerging technology and virtual worlds. However, with ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2011, starting next week, I’m going to hold off until after TK11, to write on virtual worlds. The Swipe Rule – Vendors need to swipe your card to follow up with you; which is fine; but I cannot tell you the number of times when I was a Director of Training and told the vendor in the face to call me or email me, and never heard from them. MORE

hey it is a Mashup of Emotions! Estimate 55% e-learning related content, including e-learning vendors and ILT vendors who added a “virtual training” component as part of their offerings. Expo vendor pick up in terms of leads and traffic. Day two really picked up, with those same vendors telling me they had a great day, good leads. Seriously though, the approach makes sense, and I hope that others in the content provider world will follow suit. . MORE

Process: October: open up to the advisory board. brainstorming: lots of wikis, blogs, social networking, audio/podcasts. Also listed: virtual worlds, videoconferencing, voicethreads, geotagging, cell phones, flip cameras, digital storytelling, portfolios, multimedia. Gaps between how content is used in school and how it’s used in the real world. Example: sending students out with cameras and sharing geotagged images, mashup images with Google Maps. MORE

Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. Then the world wide web. Self Serve Can also pick up packaged food -- self-service from a vending machine, etc. Incremental: Some forms of online training support current ways of doing things Virtual classrooms, presentation software, authoring tools, assessment tools, LMS. Its a talking head, a virtual agent. This was an example of a mashup. MORE

If you are interested in this, I will be doing a Virtual Presentation – Ten eLearning Predictions for 2010 that will be closely aligned with this post. One of the common reasons I hear from knowledge workers inside large organizations for not following the suggestions I provide is that the organization itself puts up barriers to working this way. And capture is moving towards video and audio. That you couldn’t really do audio or video or much of anything else over the web? MORE

The situation in the education world would however be different. GenY have grown up with rich-media and have a significant difference in attitude from the Gen X. People will want to create and communicate and do this quickly and without “due process” Authoring tools will need to support mashups, but I suspect that tools themselves need to be created as a mash-up of tools. Expect the price to fall below $100 soon as demand picks up. MORE

Imagine a baggage handler accessing a job aid on his or her bag tag scanner or a copy machine service technician connecting via the machine interface to a live, virtual mentor. “This year or next at the latest, tablets will reshape our learning and development world — providing one platform on the job, on the move, for anywhere, anytime learning and performance support.” MORE