This Friday I will be speaking at the 3rd Learning & Development Forum in Athens. Virtually. From Berlin.
I don’t know Greek, so I am taking on faith that this is complementary:
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This morning I received a German eLearning ezine that looks quite interesting. Of course, I was drawn to this item:
Casual learning the whole week
Informal learning is considered to be more flexible
The Internet Time Group has examined the differences between informal and formal learning approaches. The informal approach wins the race, is their opinion. It offers just-in-time, Continue reading 
My talk leads into a presentation by Gloria Gery. When Continue reading
Emergent Learning Forum CEO’s Letter
Business.
The bottom line is, well, the bottom line. If investors don’t understand the education business, funding stops and times get rough. Hence, some of our members must pay attention to the business of learning. Luckily, the Forum has a friend who is the leading analyst of our area.
Trace Urdan has helped us read the financial tea Continue reading
I’ll be attending Online Educain Berlin in next week. This is a great conference, bringing together government, corporate, and education pros from all over Europe and, increasingly, all over the world. Celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, Online Educa has grown larger than TechLearn.
Next year, perhaps I’ll lead an American contingent to Berlin. Heaven only knows, we Americans are going Continue reading
I spent the better part of the day learning to use QuickBooks and dumping the year’s data into its maw, something I should have done long ago. It makes one feel more like a pro than my former reporting system; that was made up of Excel spreads, Post-It notes, and selected emails. Learning was going fine until I needed to erase a few duplicate transactions. Trying to stay with the metaphor, I looked Continue reading
expect typos: this is live.
Midway through this afternoon, I checked my gmail and found an invitation from Jeff Ubois to a meeting on Open Source a few hours later at the Hillside Club, which is less than a mile from my house. How could I resist? Now I’m sitting about 5′ from the CEO of MySQL, a founder of Apache, the author of SendMail, the leader of BSD, and Kim Polese, now running a start-up Continue reading
From September’s Harvard Business Review
Seven techniques can help you get control of your top management agenda and make sure meeting time is spent building value.
1. Deal with operations separately from strategy.
2. Focus on decisions, not on discussions.
3. Measure the real value of every item on the agenda.
4. Get issues off the agenda as quickly as possible.
5. Put real choices on the table.
Google Scholar debuted on Thursday. Here’s the buzz, followed by my experience using it “to stand on the shoulders of giants.”
Google Graduates to Vertical Search
Motley Fool
By Rich Duprey
November 19, 2004Google Scholar is a free service that searches peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature. It accesses information from universities, professional Continue reading