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Professional Development
Long-term professional development often involves working and growing with peers.
The book Kitchen Confidential (Harper, 2001) by Anthony Bourdain describes how he become a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. No one issues Continue reading
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Sources of knowhow
My class at Harvard Business School has the distinction of being the last not allowed to bring portable calculators to exams. (A Bomar 4-function calculator cost $99, a sum that kept many of us from acquiring one.) I got through by doing discounted cash now with a slide rule.
Everyone Continue reading
Web 2.0 Expo
May 3-5. San Francisco. Internet Time Alliance will be there. For the free part. Exhibits, unconference, and keynotes. Register here.
Since this is half an O’Reilly gig, I wonder why it still has the Web 2.0 monitor. Didn’t Tim O’Reilly tell us it was morphing into Web Squared?
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Motivation
People are motivated to do things because they want to make progress. As Dan Pink* says, “It’s about satisfying workers’ desire for autonomy, which stimulates their ‘innate capacity for self direction’**.” Some want to increase the scope of their repertoire to gain personal power. Continue reading
WordCamp 2010 SF
I would not miss this one for anything! Last year’s Word Camp was what a conference should be.
Great speakers, gracious host, scrumptious food, open bar, free t-shirt, groovy people, $50.
Book Pirates
Wow. If these guys’ stats are accurate, they’ve downloaded more copies of my book on Informal Learning for free than Pfeiffer has sold!
I have asked my editor for Wiley’s take on this. If someone is giving my books away, I’d rather it be me.
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Today CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning. Is it a fad? No. Is it new? No. People naturally learn in small chunks. The only thing new is the label.
On the way home from the Swiss eLearning Conference, my mind was racing after three days of talking Continue reading
Another Mac. Rothko Pro
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Last week in Zurich, I was on stage opening the first Swiss eLearning Conference when the screen on my Mac Air turned turned to gibberish. I delivered my presentation by looking at the Continue reading
Snake Oil 2.0: Lipstick on a pig
Several large LMS companies added “informal learning” to their sales shticks this week. One says “All documents accessed can be tracked as informal learning events.” (Documents are events?) Another firm claims to have added a “social learning platform layer that enables customers to securely Continue reading