In my final bath of the year, I finished reading Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton, an inspiring book on the spirit of design and how innovation really works.
Buxton quotes T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
On December 12, I turned over a small package to DHL in Berlin for delivery to Berkeley. When it had not arrived ten days later, I entered the tracking number I received in Berlin. No such number. The carton arrived December 29, yesterday. Happy Belated Christmas, everyone!
My package appeared to Continue reading
Check out this awesome history of corporate education from Eileen Clegg:
“Ongoing project with IFTF and Global Learning Resources, 4 X 12 foot graphic map documenting corporate education over 120 years in historical context, leading to a forecast through 2010″
Google nGram viewer shows the frequency of words in books over time.
Frequency of social, informal, training, and learning over the last century. Live view.
Never heard of these guys, but if I’m ever in the market for a Taiwanese milking machine, I’ll keep them in mind. Email:
Dear Sir,
Thanks very much for your great support, we are a company with 52 years experience in dairy, drinks equipment Continue reading
Over the course of 18 days in December 2010, I took part in learning events in seven countries. Here are some of the things I learned.
Brussels, Belgium. Jane Hart and I keynoted “Learning Day” for senior training managers of the European Commission. The sixteenth-century guild halls that Continue reading
My work is what I want to do in life. I have no work/life balance. I have work/life equality. I just designed a two-sided business card to communicate that Jay Cross the person and my work with Internet Time Alliance are two sides of the same thing.
Please note the new phone number for 2011. The Continue reading
Happy Social Media Christmas!
Jonah Lehrer has written some great articles lately on the believability of science and credibility of knowledge. We should be incorporating his thinking in our approach to all of educational reform, not just how people learn science.
See The Mysterious Decline Effect in Lehrer’s blog, The Frontal Continue reading