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Dan Pink has written another best seller. (The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) The U.S. Government reports that one worker in eight is a sales person. Dan disagrees. He thinks we’re all sales people, even though a lot of us are engaged in “non-sales selling.” Instructors, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and you and I spend a lot of Continue reading
The January 2010 Edition of Working Smarter was released today. Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud, this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 technology.
The hardcopy version of Working Smarter costs $19.98. Believe me, I’m not trying to fool you with trick pricing. Continue reading
*If you are not reflecting, you are not learning. Here are some things I learned from in the past six months.
The Flip UltraHD camcorder is a breakthrough learning device. Two hours of high-quality video from a cam that slides into your pocket. All for less than $200. Here’s a Continue reading
Pandora is great for piping in Christmas music.
Listen to Holiday Music on Pandora
Want to listen to Holiday Music on Pandora? Just start by entering the name
of a holiday song you like. To create a station based on an artist who performs holiday Continue reading
At Online Educa this year, the Internet Time Alliance hosted a session of Pecha Kucha (20 slides x 20 seconds each). Here is my attempt at information-cramming.
I suggest replacing one-hour staff meetings with short Pecha-Kucha sessions.
Installs social learning system based on ELGG.
Customization. Open source. Supporting infrastructure.
Created a site where learning professionals could experiment with using ELGG
At first, people came to network. Now the system hosts courseware. It’s become SoLearn (short to Continue reading
This afternoon I walked the Wildcat Canyon fire road from start to finish. It’s a beautiful stroll on manicured pathways.
In 1774, Juan Bautista de Anza scored a commission from the King of Spain to explore Alta California. Don Juan set off with 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, Continue reading
LearnTrends 2009 is going to be awesome.
Yesterday I drew up the tentative agenda. Our theme is convergence in corporate learning. We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving Continue reading
Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. I encouraged them to address the needs of people who had Continue reading
Dan Pink’s new book