Posted in business models, productivity on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
From Clive Shepherd’s blog: In-house, out-house, that old question
He presents three basic options for learning development in an organization - move it all out, keep it all in, compromise with a small in-house group and use outside contractors where appropriate.
And I’ve lived through ALL three (and it’s still not over!). For years my [...]
Posted in Miscellany, business models, education, family, schooling on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
So now we’ve returned to that annual event of - ahem - practicing for the state’s standardized tests which will, among other things, waste enormous amounts of time and money. I’ve mentioned before that I’m all for some sort of accountability. It’s just that I think it’s misplaced right now.
Now the children have to [...]
Posted in business models, instructional design, project work on February 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Okay - so I’ve been working on a client project that is all about assessing performance and measuring and evaluating training programs (and other non-training interventions as well). And the model that the client uses is the Phillips’ 5 Levels - with that fifth level being a measure of ROI.
First off - why oh [...]
Posted in business models, enterprise 2.0, informal learning, instructional design, learning on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
In January this year we asked various industry experts for their predictions for 2007. Now it’s time to revisit those Ghosts of E-learning future to see if they rattled the right chains. Let’s see how they did
Maybe it’s me, but I haven’t seen much embracing of some of these in the corporate and education worlds [...]
Posted in business models, collaboration, enterprise 2.0, knowledge management, technology, web 2.0, web culture on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
James Robertson has some thoughts about collaboration - bringing up the point that it is first and foremost about people … or person-to-person interactions and dynamics.
Some of my favorite lil’ gems …
It make no sense to roll out collaboration tools to the whole organisation. Collaboration takes place between people, and can’t be [...]
Posted in Miscellany, Net Generation, business models, collaboration, enterprise 2.0, facebook, informal learning, learning, presentation tools, presentations, social networks, stupid stupid companies, technology, web 2.0, web culture on November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Slashdot: US Control of Internet Remains an Issue … my question: what is a truly good or compelling reason for this? I’ve not yet heard one - other than they just don’t like the U.S. having it. Gotta be a better reason than that.
(see also: Webpronews.com: U.S. Control of Internet Still A Concern)
Facebook’s Brilliant [...]
Posted in business models, enterprise 2.0, informal learning, knowledge transfer, productivity, project work, technology, web 2.0 on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been following Harold Jarche’s posts lately on knowledge resilience and informal learning which really is a series of short entries … each one giving some great nuggets of info. Here’s to get you started in his series …
Small steps toward knowledge resilience
Step 1: Free your bookmarks
Step 2: Aggregate
Short, simple, direct, easy to follow … [...]
Posted in brainstorming, business models, collaboration, informal learning, learning, productivity on August 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Marc Andreessen quotes from the book The Medici Effect in his post Why brainstorming is a bad idea. And apparently, this has been demonstrated to be so waaaaaaay back in 1958!
To their surprise, the researchers found that virtual groups, where people brainstormed individually, generated nearly twice as many ideas as the real groups.
And as [...]
Posted in Net Generation, business models on April 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Tom Haskins has compiled a list of characteristics between ‘content delivery’ (the old model) and ‘content discovery’ … some fine points are made - check it out …
For me the money quote is at the end of his post where he posits:
Digital natives take content discoveries for granted when they are online. Classrooms [...]
Posted in Internet Radio, business models, copyright, music on March 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Long title for this post - sorry ’bout that … but there are a few implications that come to my mind in this ever-flatter world. More on that in a bit … but first:
I should not be astounded by the lack of thought common sense intellegience … oh, I give up … they clearly lack [...]
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