Adventures in Corporate Education

Gartner recently released its hype report about social media. It is interesting to see that some of the tools we are advocating for Learning actvities are slipping into the “trough of disillusionment“. This is the time in a technology lifecycle when a product fails to meet the hype, and people stop talking about it as [...]

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This video is great. It talks about how putting things out on the Internet causes context collapse – we know ANYONE can see it, and we may even have to see it.
So one way we know ourselves is by our relationship to others. Now that there are new ways to connect with others, we have [...]

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I’m finishing off our presentation for the eLearning Guild’s Instructional Design Symposium. One thing I’m doing is explaining what EMC does, since I’m presenting to ID folks and not technical folks. Thankfully Polly Pearson (fellow EMC blogger) got some slides to me that are turning out to be very helpful!
As I’m adding the slides in, [...]

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I first wrote this post on EMC’s internal social media site. I want to share it publicly (especially with my edupeeps!).

I find myself saying that phrase – The world is changing right in front of our eyes – more often these days. I can see this so plainly, and it shocks me that there are [...]

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The twitterverse is all a-buzz with the news that Janet, a Twitter user who seemed to be an Exxon-Mobil employee, is not working for or on behalf of Exxon. Jeremiah Owyang interviewed Exxon’s spokesman Alan Jeffers about “Janet” here.
The thing that struck me from the interview is now this very conservative company is probably even [...]

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