Adventures in Corporate Education

I had an interesting Facebook conversation last night with Storagezilla (a fellow EMC blogger, and one of the biggest geeks I know). He’s at a big EMC internal conference, and he had a conversation with folks at the conference about the lack of women present. He made a pretty familiar comment:

.. talking earlier as to [...]

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For the last two years, I have submitted an education-based idea to EMC’s Innovation Conference. Both years the idea was based on a PLE – Personal Learning Environment. Both years, I used information gleaned from the Connectivism courses to shape my ideas. Both years my idea was ignored by the selection committee (cue sad music….). [...]

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Remember a couple of weeks ago I talked about zombies. Specifically how the implicit trust we have in social media tools is providing an opportunity for bad guys to turn your computer into a zombie that can be controlled to steal identities, personal information, or take down important websites.
Well, the security experts at RSA (the [...]

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Last night I listened to Stephen Downes’ lecture at #teched about Personal Learning Environments. One quote stuck with me:
The learner is the product of education
To me that means the product of education isn’t a diploma, or a certificate. The product of education is the delta between the individual’s knowledge from when they started the instruction [...]

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A couple of comments to me this week are prompting this post. Someone in my senior management made a comment that I am very active in social media but I don’t really use it to learn. And someone on twitter asked me the question about EMC|ONE, (EMC’s internal social media site):

Here was my answer to [...]

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