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Spring Conference Season continues – ASTD New England Area 2011 Conference

Last Friday I presented at the ASTD New England Area 2011 Conference. ASTD is the American Society for Training and Development for my storage friends. The conference had an underlying theme of getting everyone comfortable and participating with social media. This was the brainchild of Jean Marrapodi. (Brilliant idea I must say!!) All of the [...]

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Book Review: The New Social Learning

I just finished reading The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Before I get started, let me disclose that I was given advance copies of the book, I’m quoted in the book, and the book uses EMC as a case study. Now that I’ve [...]

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Big Question: How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?

I’m going to make this post quick, because I’m actually supposed to be working on a gap analysis for one of my classes. A colleague and I have been presenting this presentation: Social Media Ed Svcs Overview View more presentations from gminks. Basically, remember to: Tie this to business needs Show how it enables informal [...]

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Where I’ll be in November

Besides working on my two performance classes, I’ll also be attending a couple of Boston-based events. Tues Nov 3 I’ll be at the Mass chapter of ISPI to hear Cammy Bean talk about eLearning authoring tools. Several other #lrnchat folks will be there too. Tues Nov 17 I’m planning to go to the Greater Boston [...]

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July’s Big Question: New Skills for Learning Professionals

July’s big question is very timely for me! Here is the question: In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals? This week my Web 2.0 Learning [...]

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