Tag archives for blogging

Happy 3rd birthday to my blog!

Wow – I’ve had this blog for three years! Unbelievable! I started the blog when I was a grad student at FSU. Originally it focused on the intersection of social media, corporate education (what I did for a job back then) and my graduate studies. Since then, I transitioned into “doing” social media full time.  [...]

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December Big Question – What did you learn about learning in 2009?

It’s the last day of December, the last day of 2009, the last day of a decade. But I still want to answer December’s Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2009? Grad School Personally, I took five graduate courses (for my Master’s degree in Instructional Systems at FSU) Development of Computer Courseware: [...]

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Is ROI an evil MBA term? More on the ROI of blogging

Continuing the blogging ROI discussion…..there was an interesting interchange yesterday between my self and Jane Bozarth on twitter about the topic of ROI. The scenario Jane and I talked about proving the ROI of a mythical (I think) training course called “Ethics for Firefighters”. She said to prove the ROI of such a course that [...]

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How can I prove the ROI of this blog?

Someone asked me that very question a few weeks ago. Sincefrom time to time I do blog about the education programs at EMC, is there any way to tell if my words here impact the bottom line of my organization? My first thought well of course I can see ROI. I’ve increased my PLE. My [...]

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How I use social media to learn

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 [...]

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