In 2007, 2008, and 2009, we hosted free online conferences to push the envelope in learning innovation. Thousands of people from around the world participated. We also conducted special events, e.g. a session on using Sharepoint to support learning and a 24-hour round-the-world marathon webinar. We’re bidding adieu to 3,751 members.
The conference organizers, Tony Karrer, George Siemens, and I are still chasing after innovation in learning, but we’ve changed channels.
You can keep up with George, who first came up with the LearnTrends concept, on his blog www.elearnspace.org/blog or Twitter @gsiemens.
Stay current with Tony at www.elearninglearning.com or Twitter @elearningPosts.
You can find me at http://internettimealliance.com and http://internettime.com or Twitter @jaycross/alliance
Have a great 2012!
Jay, George, and Tony
P.S.
Warm thanks to the speakers and helpers who made LearnTrends a success.
Speakers
2007
George Siemens
Tony Karrer
David Snowden
Jay Cross
Richard Straub
Clark Quinn
Donald H. Taylor
Janet Clarey
David Wilson
Bill Bruck
2008
Jane Hart
Robin Good
Tony Karrer
Nancy White
Dave Wilkins
Mark Sylvester
Kevin Wheeler
George Siemens
Marcia Conner
Allison Anderson
David Weinberger
Dave Pollard
Dave Gray
Alvaro Fernandez
Jay Cross
2009
George Siemens
Jay Cross
Tony Karrer
Charles Jennings
Andy McGovern
Clark Quinn
Deb Schultz
Jerry Michalski
Chris Hardy
Jane Hart
Laura Overton
Charles Jennings
Jon Husband
Harold Jarche
Chirsty Confetti Higgins
Judy Brown
Pam Boiros
Janet Clarey
Jack Merklein
John Smith
Nancy White
Vincent Berthelot
Thierry de Baillon
Frederic Domon,
Tony O’Driscoll
The incredible support team
Scott Skibell, video
Steve Tuffill coordination
Kimberly Caise, moderation and training
P.P.S.
Those were the days, my friends. We thought they’d never end. We’d sing and dance forever and a day.
Thanks for the notice that your LearnTrends community is closing down. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy and productive 2012 but also to reflect on the impact of Ning’s business model on communities such as yours. I abandoned Ning as a viable nexus for my Multiliteracies community when we kept running up against the 150 members ceiling and discovered that having to constantly cull members was NOT the way we wanted to spend our time, nor was it at all conducive to community formation. Clearly there would be no reason to take your community with all its archives off the air if it weren’t for the pay wall that Ning has erected to prevent our artifacts from at least being kept in place on their servers forever.
I hope you’ll be able to migrate your content elsewhere. I had best success with porting my community over through Grouply, though I’m not a fan of Grouply per se, and I was not able to port the blogs. I got those ported through Posterous, the only downside being all the posts appear to be from me. At least they are still online somewhere.
You guys have probably sorted all this out already, but great to hear from you and wishing you all a prosperous new year.
Vance
I joined the LearnTrends Conference in 2008 and it opened a new perspective about learning I never considered. Thank you for your generous commitment to share ideas and resources with us.
The theme/focus this year is on Convergence in Workplace Learning. We
will bring together people who look at different aspects of learning
and knowledge work to understand better what’s going on in those areas
and how we should be thinking about this holistically