Tue.Apr 26, 2011

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Don’t forget “fun”?

Kapp Notes

So yesterday I posted a definition of “ Game &# but shortly after I posted it, someone pointed out that I forgot to include “fun&# and Stephen Downes , not without merit, pointed out that it is a “mug’s game&# to define “game&# nevertheless I will persist with the act of defining game and also examine the case for “fun&# within a game.

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By the Numbers

The Performance Improvement Blog

It’s not how big your number is; it’s what you do with that number that counts. Alina Tugend writes in the New York Times about our society’s preoccupation with counting things as if assigning a number to something makes it valuable. She describes her own tendency to pay attention to the number of blog hits, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, and book sales, as if these numbers are a measure of her selfworth.

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I Feel the Need - The Need for Speed

Tony Karrer

This month's #LCBQ is: How do you address the "I want it now!" demand from stakeholders ? There are some great responses that can be found by visiting the link above. Corny 1986 line. :) Content Needs This is a very crude self-assessment, but I believe it makes an important point. If you are reading this, you are a knowledge worker. Consider the content (knowledge, information, learning) you personally need to get your job done.

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Quinnovation Does Australia

Clark Quinn

My itinerary for my upcoming Australian visit has largely converged. I land on the 22nd of May at around 6:30 AM, but that will give me what will likely be a grueling day of staying awake to get on schedule, and then depart on the 1st of June, no doubt weary but happy. In between is a lot of really interesting things I’m looking forward to: I’m excited about the Australasian Talent Conference (discount code: ‘CQ11′), covering the entire talent management space, which lo

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The Curse of the Blank PowerPoint Slide

eLearning Brothers

“In the beginning there was a blank slide. All eLearning designers dreamed of the endless possibilities. Wondrous content could spring into life. However, something went wrong… Bullet points sprang up like weeds. Clip art infiltrated the blank space. Bad color schemes and ugly fonts polluted the slide. The dream of engaging, awesome content suffered a great blow.

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Best years of our lives?

Learning with e's

They say that our school years are the best years of our lives. But for many children, that is untrue. About a year ago, I wrote a personal account of an incident during my primary schooling that shaped my young adulthood. In That'll teach him , I recounted an incident where I asked a question in class, and the teacher ridiculed me. It was a bad experience.

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Management Training 101: Why Bosses Need to Coach, Connect, and Care

Mindflash

Harsh truth: More often than not, people leave their bosses, not their company. I was one of these. I loved my job. I was great at my job. But I had no real rapport with my manager – his choice, not mine. He let me do what I wanted – I appreciated that – but we never spoke about my performance or my future; he had no interest in what inspired, encouraged or engaged me.

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Talking about blended learning – part 3 – selecting methods

Clive on Learning

Part 3 In the third part of this interview, I address the following questions: What's your next step once you've analysed the situation? How do you begin deciding which methods to use? How do the various social contexts for learning compare? What options do you have in terms of an overall learning strategy? How do social contexts and learning strategies interact?

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Product Review: EasyGenerator Rapid Content Authoring Tool

eLearning 24-7

EasyGenerator. EasyGenerator is a SaaS based content authoring tool that is like a piece of fine sculpture, with some cracks, but beauty that is hidden within. Good, Average & Poor. Good. Extremely feature rich – can compete with Captivate and other authoring tools. Can use images and video with text and move the text separately from the object, something many RCATs can’t do because they use grouping which cannot be un-grouped.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

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Looking at things the right way

Good To Great

An email headed ‘Looking at things the right way’ recently landed in my inbox. It was a series of photographs about shifting perspectives: things that look perfectly normal from one view but a little odd (or wonderful) when looked at in another way. Some are cute, some are rude, some are funny, but I’ve included a couple of my favourites below. At around the same time, I found myself chatting about my home town with Craig Taylor.

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Tips for Effective Presentations

OpenSesame

My coworkers and I have been giving a lot of presentations lately, for a variety of reasons: explaining OpenSesame to buyers and sellers, sharing tips and information about the keys to successful elearning development and promoting OpenSesame. We’ve developed some rules of thumb for captivating presentation audiences and focusing on the key information.

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SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau: Accelerating a Global Powerhouse

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Today SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Plateau, enabling the company to enter the learning management systems market with a bang. At the same time the company announced Q1 revenue growth of 51% year-to-year, raised its guidance for the year, and announced its first-ever profitable quarter. This is a company with tremendously strong momentum.

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Tips for Effective Presentations

OpenSesame

'My coworkers and I have been giving a lot of presentations lately, for a variety of reasons: explaining OpenSesame to buyers and sellers, sharing tips and information about the keys to successful elearning development and promoting OpenSesame. We’ve developed some rules of thumb for captivating presentation audiences and focusing on the key information.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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SuccessFactors Acquires Plateau: Accelerating a Global Powerhouse

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Today SuccessFactors announced the acquisition of Plateau, enabling the company to enter the learning management systems market with a bang. At the same time the company announced Q1 revenue growth of 51% year-to-year, raised its guidance for the year, and announced its first-ever profitable quarter. This is a company with tremendously strong momentum.

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Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Three Reasons Why Corporate Training Departments Could Become Extinct by Jon on April 26, 2011 in Development Tools , Training Development , Video , budgeting , eLearning For some, the idea that a major corporation could do without it’s training department is unthinkable.