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Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences

Tony Karrer

Ning really makes it easy to do one of these. A couple of big advantages jump out around online conferences: Online conferences have a dramatically lower cost in terms of time and expense. Given the dramatically different cost/time structures, I don't see how online conferences can do anything but increase. Cost is very low.

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eLearning Predictions Further Thoughts

Tony Karrer

Social Learning Communities It was interesting that ASTD DC / Todd Slater has created a Ning community. Fast and Okay Rather Than Slow and Good One of the predictions I made was that we would be creating more, lower cost learning solutions. People end up staying home to be able to attend virtual events.

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The Right Place to Find Help: ASTD's Big Question

Kapp Notes

One social network for Learning Management System questions and, perhaps another, for a question about learning strategies or business strategies or marketing strategies. There was really no cost effective way for the average person to "broadcast" a question to a large group of people. In the old days (before Web 2.0) With Web 2.0

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

Of course, Learning Tree International's business is selling face-to-face courses, but most of us will have had the Learning Tree catalogue 'brick' of courses dropping onto our desks on a regular basis for many years. Old business models cannot be maintained forever. Learning Tree has been around since 1974.

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Answer the Call for Authentic Leadership

CLO Magazine

in at all costs. in business, brutal honesty is a behavior that executive co. ademic coordinators for the business school. significant international business experience, will someti. article that appeared on the Harvard Business School. ning build a commitment to self-awareness and. statesmanship.

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Design - Audio - Podcasting - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Growing Your Business - Innovative Marketing Using Social Media <!–( eLearning Costs - eLearning Technology , September 10, 2009. Business applications of Twitter - E-learning in the Corporate Sector , September 3, 2009. Business Casual , September 7, 2009. Business+Web 2.0 Featured Sources. Twitter (36).

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Even in organisations where L&D priorities are closely aligned with business priorities there’s plenty of head-room for improvement. So there are plenty of opportunities to learn and it doesn’t cost you anything more than your time. The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS! My side comments in italics.